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"Tank Fixer" wrote in message
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on Wed, 24 Mar 2004 17:15:09 GMT,
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In us.military.army Chad Irby wrote:

There were
definitely problems, due to Saddam's heavy hand, but women were
able
to
walk
the streets without fear of rape,

Aren't you overlooking Uday Husseins well documented love of rape?
But otherwise I'm sure it was a lovely place to live.


But he never committed his rapes on the street.....

So the Sadam appologists give him a pass.


Actually, its a matter of numbers. How many rapes did Uday commit? How
many are being commited now? Likewise with daily murders, etc.

You guys like to tout the mass graves and so on, but the reality is
that most of that stuff happened years ago. The biggest single killer
in Iraq has been for several years the result of the UN sanctions.

Ha! Saddam put his monies into palace construction,siphoned off "oil-for-
food" money to give bribes to other countries for UN support,and ratholed
millions of US dollars;he did *nothing* for "his people's" welfare.
In fact,he seems to have made it worse for them.

And you blame it on UN sanctions.

True, Saddam could have played better with us and the sanctions
wouldn't have been needed, but it will be several years before things
improve to the point that the Iraqis are significantly better off
materially than they were before the invasion.

Gee,that's not what the Iraqis themselves have been saying,according to
news reports.

And, in the meantime,
we have the potential for even worse things happening in Iraq than
anything that Saddam and his kids ever managed to do.

Yes,the potential for Al-queda to take over and bring forth another
"Taliban" government.And to use Iraq as a base for more terrorism.



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Jim Yanik
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