President Bush strongly believed that once Saddam Hussein was captured, that the war on terror would be over. Many political leaders thought there were weapons of mass destruction within Iraq, but these allegations would later turn out to be incorrect, and conjured up from false intelligence. Amid the chaos and confusion in Iraq, many of the soldiers within the combat zone were unsure of how to detect an enemy from a civilian. Without rules of engagement and no knowledge of what constituted the enemy, soldiers were told "If it looks like the enemy, shoot it."
Intelligence was minimal at best, and many round-ups by military police officers were based off of hunches. There was no discernment between members of the insurgencies or the common civilians; everyone was simply arrested. Men, women and children were herded out of houses by the American troops, and separated while the men were humiliated in front of their families and neighbors.
American raid on Iraqi house
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