I think it depends on which group of Muslims you ask:
'All the peasants were cheering us, even the soldiers'
We have seen no resistance to speak of and no hostility -- simply, ordinary people standing by the road and, as we drove, increasing numbers of Iraqi soldiers.
"Praise be to Allah," many of them shouted, relieved at being finally delivered from more than two decades of Saddam Hussein's tyranny.
"I wasn't surprised at the reception we got," Sgt. Pares said.
"It is what I expected here. Whatever the world thinks of what we are doing, the Iraqi people view us as a force that is freeing them.
"I saw a lot of kids and I started to think of my own kids back at home. God Bless America for giving our children a chance. These kids were so thin. They sure didn't get their share of Iraq's oil money."
Clearly, most of these people are very happy. However, it must be said they are Shia Muslims. The area we have been travelling through is predominantly Shia. Just after the first Gulf War, it was the centre of an armed uprising against the Iraqi leader, which was put down with terrible bloodshed.
Saddam Hussein is a Sunni and a northerner. The Sunni strongholds lie around Baghdad and to the north.