The continued presence of the United States forces in Iraq has created many serious problems for people.

The U.S. still has 47,000 troops in Iraq and this annoys the Iraqis who want foreign forces leave their territory as soon as possible.
Experts on regional issues believe that none but the U.S. wrong policy is responsible for unwanted and dangerous events in Iraq.
In April Iraqis held sit-ins in front of U.S. military bases across Iraq, demanding an immediate pullout of occupation forces from their country.
Most Iraqis believe that the U.S. is one of the biggest threats to peace and security in Iraq and this is why they have demanded the government to put an end to all forms of occupation by foreign forces before the end of the current year.
Most Iraqis believe that when the U.S. forces leave their country, they are able to pave the way for peace, security and development in their country.
After eight years since the ouster of the Saddam Hussein regime, U.S. forces have not yet pulled out of Iraq. Based an agreement signed between Baghdad and Washington occupation forces must leave Iraq by December 31, 2001, however, under an agreement the U.S. is seeking to perpetuate its presence in Iraq.
At the very beginning when the Bush administration decided to invade Iraq some analysts and state officials said Washington was seeking to get access to Iraq’s huge oil resources and find a foothold in the strategic and oil-rich region of the Persian Gulf and dismissed claims by neo-cons at the White House that the Saddam regime was seeking a secret program to develop weapons of mass destruction program.
Finally, as the UN, through its intensive inspections, had certified Iraq had no WMD program and the argument by analysts and some state officials that the U.S. had other ambitions in invading Iraq came true.
Washington is seeking to compensate war costs by inking lucrative economic deals especially in the oil sector with Iraq.
Now, the United States looks at Iraq as an economic opportunity as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered remarks at a business forum promoting commercial opportunities in Iraq saying “it's time for the United States to start thinking of Iraq as a business opportunity.”