re: The ungrateful
Actually, the French were extremely grateful after World War II. What followed was a true democracy. Simply because today, nearly sixty years later, the French don't always agree with our foreign policy, isn't being ungrateful. We didn't enter World War II in order to guarantee that the French would forever agree with everything we do.
Unfortunately, I doubt that the Iraqi insurgentss will stop fighting so long as we are there. And, the moment we leave, Iraq will become an Islamic theocracy like Iran.