I dunno man......I wouldn't tell my step-father in-law whose served in Iraq on 4 tours that he is fighting a fake war, he would slap me across the face. He would say he is fighting middle eastern religous nutjobs who have infiltrated Iraq from Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Iran mostly......and they are shooting real bullets and chopping off kids heads with real knives to intimidate the actual Iraqi's....... the islamists plans are to remake the entire middle east and Europe into some Islamic state where Sharia Law rules, women arent allowed in school, your beaten for holding hands as kids, a rumor spread will get you tortured and imprisoned for life, no music is allowed, haircuts are banned......and so on. Fake.......I dont think so. Maybe a "Proxy" war....