Crowds of delighted people cheered the German troops when they entered the cities and towns of the Ukraine in WWII, and hailed them as liberators. The invading USA troops didn't get nearly that enthusiastic a welcome in Iraq, despite the fact that parallels can be drawn between Stalin and Saddam for their dictatorial brutality. But I trust the Americans, when they finally leave Iraq, will get about the same general popularity rating from the locals as the Germans did by '44-45 when they finally left the Ukraine and the other occupied-by-force territories of the Third Reich...