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I think the important point here is that not everybody in the world views what we did as a noble act. Many Iraqi's still feel we removed Saddam for economic reasons, and the terrible job Bush has done in securing the peace hasn't helped disprove this. So far almost none of the money earmarked for rebuilding Iraq has been allocated or spent while there are still huge problems with clean water, sewage, electricity and security.
Remember too that we didn't tell the world we were going into Iraq to free them, it was to remove the urgent threat of WMD's which most of the world (including a lot of Americans) feel was based on manipulated intelligence. There is a tremendous lack of trust for the Bush Administration both there and here.
There is another opinion out there worth understanding. Doesn't mean they shouldn't be more grateful for removing Saddam, but we should be more open minded as well, otherwise we'll keep making the same mistakes.
-spence
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