Edit war? 

You said "stop edit warring over the lead" which makes me thinking did I violate any rule? did I violate the 3rr? the answer is n, 2ndly obviously you are the one who violated the rules by removing sources, you can put this under "history" or "geography"? why you didn't put it? aren't you are the one who removed it? unless you don't want to put it in the first place? any way this info is about defining Iraq in general, so it's should be at first.