My own sources on the ground over there indicate to me that the vast majority are happy we are there. z,pz. I believe that to be the case, but also believe that the media and the democrats and left will do anything they can to paint the picture as badly as possible. We help their cause with such actions as general fire arms confiscations.
...and, on top of all of that, in areas with larger numbers of hold overs, it is a hard and brutal job to ferret them out along with the infiltrators and terrorists from other countries. Intel is soft in some areas, but in others we are getting a lot of help from the locals. The Sunni triangle is the biggest problem and it is no accident that the largest numbers of ba'athist holdovers resides there.
I hope you are right! Destroy the Ammo dumps all over Iraq and then hunt down the 5000 rebels that American intel says is against us. Then it will be over!