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Originally Posted by timmgirvan
They didnt have an infrastructure,a real police force and they already were helping terrorists. When all was said and done, the people were still splintered by religious factions jockeying for power, thereby thwarting the establishment of a strong govt.
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Timm, I hate to say this, because he was a monster, but they did have a strong government, under Saddam- he kept three warring factions under control. Pull him out, and they, as you said, started jockeying for power. And now what, somewhere between 300,000 and 600,000 Iraqis are dead. Was it worth it? I don't know. That's a lot of people dead. More dead in four years than in his entire regime, and the man killed a lot of people. And 3,000 Americans on top of all that, and thousands and thousands more permanently maimed. Do you think all their lives were worth what's there? Because we made that happen. Whatever awful things happened pre-2003, since then, what has happened is our fault. No one else's. We have created this. It's ours.
Yes, they did have a police force and an infrastructure- one of the major mistakes made immediately after the invasion was disbanding the force. For all the right-wing's spin, electricity is still not back to what it was in Saddam days. And it wasn't all that great in Saddam days, but in four years, we've managed to make it even worse. Of course, seeing how well we've done with New Orleans, why am I surprised? At least 300,000 to 600,000 haven't died there, too.
But it's okay, Timm; I know you have a man-crush on GW and he can do no wrong in your eyes.
