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Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) -- When the first U.S. military convoy rolled into 8-year-old Saad Kareem's middle class neighborhood in Baghdad nearly a decade ago, he was scared, even as others around him whistled and danced. Saad's family is Shiite, and the U.S. invasion brought hope for political and religious freedoms they'd missed under Saddam Hussein's Sunni-dominated regime. "I was with my mother at the time, holding my mother's hand very tight. I was so scared because I thought that they were coming to kill us," recalled Saad, now 17. "But when I saw my mother smiling, I relaxed." Read more ....   My Comment: The violence is down but the sectarian bitterness and distrust still exists. Comments like this one from the Iraqi Prime Minister does not help. On the plus side .... many Iraqis are still determined to work together to keep the peace, and the Iraqi Army is still unified.