Are Iraqi leaders committing treason by siding with an occupation force?

They really didn't have a government to begin with, they had a despot ruler who would execute them and use poison gas on the Kurds. His two sons and the Bath party ruled by iron fist. They have a chance for a democracy now and they want it. Would you call our founding fathers traitors? If they lost the revolutionary war they could have been shot by the Brits for treason. HBO just had a series called John Adams, it was amazing and very educational.