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Originally Posted by FireFly
Granted, I am un-complicating things, but those are the sides fighting the most right now, and they're doing it with bombs. If you don't support either side you generally stay out of it.
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Actually, from most of the articles I've read, Saddam loyalists are pretty rare these days.
There are 4 or 5 factions that fall into 2 categories. There are the secularists who consist mainly of Kurds, #####es, and Sunnis. But other than their support for a secular government, the opinions vary among them about the role the U.S. should have. Some of the Sunnis in this group are Saddam Loyalists, but they are not a majority. Most of the Kurds, and a portion of the Shi'ites support the U.S. in this group.
Then there are the religous fundamentalists who want to form an Islamist government. They are mainly Shi'ites (supporters of Sadr and Ayatollah Sistani) and Sunnis (supporters of Al Qaeda and Al Zarqawi). None of these insurgent groups support Saddam Hussein, and in fact, many people who support this ideology would have ended up in mass graves under Hussein - Saddam himself being a secularist.