because I hold them in the highest regard and I'm very grateful they're (along with the Australians, the Poles, and all the others) they're with us. However, their circumstances in Iraq are quite different than the American forces. From the link you provided:

The British troops, by contrast, seem remarkably well disposed towards the Iraqis, even though among those smiling and cadging cigarettes are men who would be happy to kill them. The confidence-building got off to a slow start. Then, as always, it was the children who came forward first. Now the gates of the bases in Umm Qasr and Zubayr have a permanent throng of the curious, the friendly and the importuning, just as they did in Bosnia and Kosovo.



British soldiers seem to have a natural sympathy for the poor foreigners they habitually find themselves having to sort out and a mild interest in the political and cultural forces that created the mess. If they are in a place long enough, they play football with the local men and sleep with and sometimes marry their sisters.



There's a crucial element that the British have had that has been denied to the American forces: time. The British forces have been concentrated in and around Basrah since the opening days of the campaign. They've had time to establish a measure of trust with some of the locals and they've rendered wonderful service. In contrast, the American forces have been moving rapidly so there hasn't been time to establish trust.