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Originally Posted by Charlatan
To rebuild the democracy that the US destroyed back in the 40s and 50s? Irony is... ironic.
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it is what it is.
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I don't think there is anyone that would admit Saddam wasn't a bastard. That the world is better off without him.
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then stop complaining.
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I just don't buy the Administrations altruistic spin on things. If they are so damned altruistic, why not take out North Korea? Fix the Sudan... Hell why not go after the Chinese? Their human rights violation would make Saddam's toes curl.
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so do you or don't you want the US to be the world police. Seems to me we're damned if we do and we're damned if we don't so we might as well not place too much weight on what the world thinks as much as what is in our best interest, because after all they're not going to be happy with what we do anyway. You just can't please them all, you know.
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The Administration was quite happy to support Saddam and look the other way on his abuses as long as he served the US business interests. As soon as he turned his back on the US and started doing what he wanted rather than what they wanted, he was a marked man.
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The Administration...you mean the Bush Administration? you lost me. I don't think our current president ever supported saddam.
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Interestingly there are many that are making a heck of a lot of money form this adventure. Few of them are Iraqi.
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really? I don't think you did the math right.
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These achievements are translating into measurable progress. Iraq's economy is expected to grow by nearly 4 percent this year and accelerate to nearly 17 percent in 2006. Per capita income should soon exceed $1,000 - nearly double the level in 2003. More than 30,000 new businesses have been registered and many have set up shop. Today in Iraq there are more than three million cell phone subscribers. In 2003 there were virtually none. Iraqi students now carry laptops that connect at Internet cafes to the world's Web sites and libraries where before they had to rely on pencils, slide rules and outdated - often censored - school textbooks.
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http://newsblaze.com/story/200512132...Top-Story.html Seems to me that iraqis are making billions more now than there were with saddam in power...