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Those groups could grow in Iraq because Saddam wiped out social capital. Through tyranny and genocide, Saddam created the inevitable. Unless he was allowed to remain a genocidal dictator forever, this was going to happen.
A nation can not have its social capital obliterated and then not experience difficulties in the rebuilding process. If we must blame someone other than the terrorists themselves, by going back to the creation of fertile ground, let's go back to what actually created that fertile ground; it was not the removal of the dictator (something that had to happen eventually), it was the dictator.
That region of the world has been trying to commit genocide among one another since biblical times, this is nothing new that started with saddam keeping things under control, and his reign did nothing to foster the hate unless you consider him protecting shia islam and christians as fostering hate that exploded when he was taken down.
There were not many stretches of peace in the middle east, religiously it is the most diverse with more religions than any other region surviving, while at the same time many of those religions are under threat of prosecutions and genocide. Iraq and syria kept them in check with an iron fist, iran protected other groups through it's constitution and rule of law, and prior to the end of the ottoman empire the ottomans kept peace throughout the middle east by seperating towns by religion, and allowing the people of each town to install their own religious laws seperate from the others, rather than merging them together because they knew what would happen.