 Ramba uchiverenga ndima iyi - Somutungamiriri wehurumende, Rasmussen akatsigira zvakasimba Hondo yeIraq ya2003. Sezvakangoita munyika dzakawanda dzokuEurope, akashorwa zvikuru muparamende uye nevanhuwo zvavo. Ongororo dzakazotevera dzakaratidza kuti vanhu vokuDenmark vakanga vasingabvumirani panyaya iyi. Mumwe munhu airatidzira zvakasimba akakwanisa kupinda muparamende yeDenmark munguva yehondo isati yatanga, kwaakadurura pendi tsvuku pamusoro pomutungamiriri wehurumende achishevedzera kuti Du har blod på dine hænder chaizvoizvo: Mune ropa pamaoko enyu. Imwe nhengo yeparamende yeDenmark yeSocialist Red-Green Alliance, Pernille Rosenkrantz-Theil, yakataura kuti yakanga iri mhinduro iyo angadai akaita pasi pemamiriro ezvinhu, kunyange zvazvo gare gare akashora mufambiro wakadaro. Denmark yaiva imwe yenyika shanu chete dzakatora chikamu mumabasa chaiwo ekupinda dzimwe dzacho dzaive US, UK, Poland neAustralia kunyangwe hazvo boka racho raive nemidziyo miviri yehondo diki uye vashandi uye zvikamu zveredhiyo izvo zvisina kumbobvira zvabatanidzwa muhondo chaiyo. Mumwedzi yakatevera chikamu chokutanga chehondo, mauto okuDenmark akapinda musimba renyika dzakawanda raiva muIraq. Mauto eDenmark anoda kusvika mazana mashanu nemakumi mashanu akaiswa muIraq kubva muna 2004 kusvika muna 2007, kutanga ku Camp Dannevang uye gare gare ku Camp Einherjer, ese ari maviri padyo neBasra. Apo boka remauto rakaenda munenge muna August 2007, harina kutsiviwa uye Denmark yakachinja pfungwa dzayo kune vasiri vehondo kutsigira kuBaghdad. Chikonzero chepamutemo chakapiwa ndechokuti hurumende yeIraq zvino inofanira kukwanisa kubata kuchengeteka munharaunda yeBasra. Vatsoropodzi vaRasmussen vakataura kuti kubviswa kwacho kwakakonzerwa nekuderedza rutsigiro rwemumba rwehondo. 