If the US thought Iraq would empathize with Syrians protesting against a murderous regime--they badly overestimated Iraq.
Iraq, freed from the murderous dictator Saddam Hussein are backing Assad against Syrian protesters:
More than six months after the start of the Syrian uprising, Iraq is offering key moral and financial support to the country’s embattled president, undermining a central U.S. policy objective and raising fresh concerns that Iraq is drifting further into the orbit of an American arch rival — Iran.
