Was Iraq an intentional training ground for insurgents?

Was Iraq an intentional training ground for insurgents?

Was Iraq used as a real-life theater of training for the men we see leading these 'revolutions' in Libya and Syria? Are the obviously well-trained, well-armed men we see fighting in the streets in Syria, and in the streets of Libya, trained in Iraq by Western interests (CIA?) to learn how to fight against a well-trained, well-armed military unit (US/NATO forces?), so that they could then be used later on in these middle-east conflicts as guerrilla fighters against the national armies of places like Syria and Libya?

And how long until those tactics are used elsewhere? In Europe? Domestically?