YES, YOU'RE NOT HALLUCINATING...THIS WAS IN THE NEW YORK TIMES

Attackers Wound an Iraqi Official in a Baghdad Raid: "She said in the interview that she had admonished the French not to try to drive a wedge between the United States and the new Iraqi government by offering tempting plans for quick sovereignty.
'Don't think the Iraqis will ever forget what the Americans did in liberating them,' she said she told French officials, adding, 'we will not allow the Americans to fail.'"