Guaranteed that those are 42 Iraqis who love Americans.
That was my thought too. They should do a quick poll and find 42 Iraqis and ask them what they think of America. I think that is a fair poll since they try to spin polls anyway. I think we should get some good news polls for a change.
Don't be so sure.
First of all, they likely blame the Americans for being in that prison in the first place.
Secondly, you're looking at this from a Western mindset. As an Army officer told me after returning from Iraq, "Logic is a totally foreign concept there... Iraqis simultaneously say both that 9/11 was a Mossad operation to make Arabs look bad--and that it was a great Arab victory against the West!"
I hope, however, that this isn't the case and they are grateful.