Why is Iraq not part of the War of Gog and Magog?

In Ezekiel chapters 38:2-3, God provides a list of the enemies who will attack Israel in the War of God and Magog. Notably absent from the list is Babylon, now Iraq. Why is this?

Current and recent events suggest that the answer may lie in the fact that Iraq presently has the most liberal constitution and government in all of the Islamic Middle East. Unlike its neighbors, the government of Iraq operates (largely) within the rule of law.

The mainstream media (MSM) unanimously paint a picture of Iraq as a lost cause, a war that the US is doomed to lose.

In frontpagemag.com, Alan W. Dowd does a very good job of demonstrating that the MSM is not providing an objective view of the situation.

Here is the beginning of the article:

FrontPage magazine.com :: Blaming the Messenger by Alan W. Dowd: "
By Alan W. Dowd
FrontPageMagazine.com | March 13, 2007

It’s not fair to blame the messenger for delivering bad news. But it is fair to blame the messenger for delivering nothing more than bad news when there is also good news—or at least exculpatory news—to report. Four years after the end of Saddam Hussein’s regime, Iraq is a case in point.

The media are not contriving the news they report, of course. There are, after all, car bombings and kidnappings and killings. And there were, after all, problems with prewar intelligence and the postwar plan. But the media are choosing not to report other news about the US mission in Iraq—news that tells another side of a very complex and complicated chapter in American history. What the American people are left with is a partial picture—a picture that shapes their opinions about the war and will ultimately define its trajectory. Last month’s House resolution condemning the so-called “surge,” which supporters somehow claimed at once to be both meaningless and momentous, tilted that trajectory further downward."

Mr. Dowd then goes on to point out a great deal of the "good news" stories that the MSM have deliberately ignored.

Follow the link above and read his full article. You may, like me, find that the evidence is mounting that Iraq will not be part of the Russian coalition to attack Israel because they have won the struggle to create a free and democratic Iraq. They therefore do not need to blame Israel for all of their problems and participate in this war. That will spare them from the destruction that God promises to the attackers, leaving them well positioned for the revival of Babylon promised in Revelation.

See what you think.