Iraqi lawmakers are the latest to protest US troops. See how easy it is to win hearts and minds?

Dozens of Iraqi lawmakers walked out of parliament Wednesday to protest what they view as overly aggressive and humiliating treatment by U.S. soldiers as representatives enter Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, where the legislature is located.

What next, protesting Blackwater? Perish the thought.

Feryad Rawandozi, a high-ranking official with the Kurdish parliamentary bloc [said] U.S. soldiers "are very arrogant and impolite when they talk to us, especially with those who don't speak English."

"If we come off as aggressive, it might be a cultural thing," Alston added.

::slaps head:: Of course. It's that cultural thing. Verbal abuse and humiliation is just something we American invaders do because we're, well, American.