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Originally posted by Ustwo
Soooooo we can only overthrow governments where doing so brings no benefit? The end result is if your view was the way things worked, Saddam and he merry men would still be free to do all the wonderful things they did to said 25 million people.
I like my view better.
The US did a good thing by liberating Iraq. I'm sorry you didn't like it but it doesn't really concern you.
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Um, did you even read the thing you quoted? It transcends in every way what you had to say.
Are 25 million Iraqis better off today than before 12 years of U.S.-led sanctions, continuous bombing, and two major U.S. military campaigns? Catagorically and emphatically no. I have no love of S.Hussein but he's going to be a pretty difficult act to follow. 1991 Iraq was a pretty advanced place in terms of civilization. They had water, electric, and communcation systems that were the envy of the area and a literacy rate that was close to America's (65% if memory serves). Hussein kept Iraq's three divisive ethnicitys in check (admittedly this was done with favoritism and violence, but are going to do any better when Shia Iraq decides it wants to be its own theocratic country?).