[Roanon]

Note that there is a difference between what intentions the US have, what actions they actually do, and what people think about what they are doing.

There may be the intention to liberate the Iraq and install a democracy (though I doubt it, there is just too much oil involved). What actually goes on now is a war hurting a lot of civilians. And someone who used to live not in freedom but in relative safety in Iraq, and who now faces the danger of being killed by bombs and who is starving because he can't get food or water any more, who has a completely different religious and cultural background, who hasn't access to all the different sources of information - he is very unlikely to welcome the invading soldiers with open arms.

There is widespread disagreement and doubt about the altruistic intentions behind this invasion, even in the "free" world. Why should an even more biased Iraqi citizen share the US viewpoint? That seems to be simple to me, and I am still wondering about the US theory of a warm welcome and no resistance.