BUT THEN NOT EVERYONE AGREES.

Resistance to U.S. troops is growing daily here, as Baghdad residents cope with 115-degree heat without reliable electricity, water or other utilities.

Tempers are soaring with the temperature as checkpoints choke down already congested roadways and tank convoys tear up streets.

"Americans are doing nothing for the Iraqi people," said Haider Jasim, 23, a student of Iraqi history at the Mustansiriya University in Baghdad.

"During the reign of Saddam Hussein, things were better, everything worked. We had water and power."

Uh-huh. But why stop at water and power. Why not also recall you had torturings and disappearing relatives and one maniac and his two sons stealing the profits from the world's second largest oil reserves.

Read this bit of selective memory here.