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Originally posted by milhouse_dick
You're partially correct. It was oil, maybe some payback for his dad, but look at it from a positivie standpoint also. We did take out a guy who killed, raped, and tortured hundreds of thousands of his own people for nothing more than his own pleasure. Yeah, we did help him take control, we fucked that up. We should have stayed out of that region and watch it destroy itself in the first place. But we didn't. Just like we didn't present day. But that's reality. And as someone mentioned earlier, Iraqis are more than happy we're there; despite the fighting in three cities (where most people we're loyal to Saddam b/c he didn't rape, torture, and kill them), it can't be taken as indicitive for the rest of the country's feelings. Look at cities in the south, like Basra, where British troops are occupying. How many British troops have you heard killed this past month? So even though we dropped the ball and screwed the pooch on this one, I think people should still get behind their country. 
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Actually, the Sunni supporters of Saddam aren't the only ones that pose a problem. The fanatical Shia groups also hate you Americans with a passion. The Kurds, when they find out that they won't get their own country, a big amount of autonomy, or even protection from Turkish raids, will start fighting again as well.
Truth is that most Iraqi people are against the west and the US specifically, and once the dust has settled (it might well settle only after a civil war in which the country is divided in two) it will become clear that they still don't love the US.