Iraq as an enemy of the United States, as it was pre-democracy, wasn't all that solid as an enemy. Saddam and his nation were cast in many lights, from a tyranny bent on attacking America again to a Nazi Germany like nation that was poised to lash out at its neighbors and expand through force. That wasn't true. Though he was a tyrant, certainly, and his nation was despotic and abused it's people, Iraq was never any solid US enemy. The first Iraq war was based on Iraqi-Kuwaiti oil disputes, and Saddam thinking the United States government had said that it would be ok with Iraqi military action. The second war was based on the idea that Saddam was involved in 9/11, which he wasn't, and that Saddam was building weapons of mass destruction, which he wasn't. Iraq was quickly trounced both times by the far greater strength of the United States. So though children of the 90s saw Saddam and his Iraq cast as a great enemy that was a adversary for America and was really something to go up against, which we saw in board games and video games and all sorts of stuff, it really wasn't that Middle Eastern Nazi Germany.
The challenge here is to take Iraq and make it into a nation which really does work to build up its military force, bring itself onto greater standing as a nation which comes closer to being able to compete against the United States, maybe expand it's territory as Nazi Germany did, and make it a nation which is decidedly an adversary of the United States.