Are the lives of the Iraqi people better today than before the U.S. invaded their country to liberate them?

Answer 1

The only ones who can truly answer that are the ones living there before and now. People here will think they know but they don't.

Answer 2

No It is a lot worse and that (as you well know ) is not America's fault, nor all George Bush's fault.
The Iraqi people need to fight for their own freedom and let their silly religion go it's own way.
Do the Iraqi women (or other muslim women held in bondage) really wish to spend the rest of their lives as property?
Bush made some mistakes. He did not have good intelligence reports or would have known that Iraq is a tribe type society still ruled by Muslim preachers who have for centuries practiced slavery of women and are not about to lose that control .
Women is the key in the fight over terrorism. In IraQ AND Afganistan women and girls are bing told to stop going to school, stop shoping, and end all conversations out side the home, stop acting educated, stop acting western, obey their owners and stay behind their veils and in the back room or die.
That is the root of the problem. It's slavery pure and simple.

If the Iraq people do not want peace than they and Iran should be blockaded, not allowed to have a military, eventually forced into becoming a free society.

If you want to blame someone blame the president of Iraq who is allowing his own religious tribe to kill at will.

Answer 3

No. Since the war began, the battle for power between Shiites/Kurds and Sunnis has created the lingering threat of civil war. Innocent Iraqis have been injured or killed in attacks between the two groups. Also, insurgent violence has killed or injured thousands of Iraqis as well. I should also mention the towns, property, and people's lives destroyed from the "collateral damage" of U.S. attacks. Saddam was indeed a brutal dictator, but the chaos that is the current war has left Iraqis in a worse environment than when Saddam was in power.

Answer 4

No.

Civil war. No infrastructure. A corrupt government. Relentless violence. Little real prospects for the future. And a US force that will inevitably cut and run from its responsiblity to fix the mess its created.

It is a human disaster. Blair and Bush should hang thier heads in shame.

Moreover we are all in more danger now than before as Iraq has been turned into a breeding ground for terrorists and anti western feeling. At least before the war Iraq was contained. Now it is a disaster waiting to explode onto the world.

Answer 5

Yes I think so they can do some of what they want with worry about getting killed by there government.The women can show there faces now women have a say so in what they do.I know they and we have a long road to follow to get things right but some day we will if we have the backing with the new people in the white house.IF THEY PULL OUT ALL OF OUR SOLDIERS THAT HAVE DIED WILL HAVE DIED IN VANE HOPE THIS DON'T HAPPEN IN THIS WAR LIKE VIETNAM i WAS THERE IN THAT ONE IT TOOK A LOT OUT OF US WHEN WE PULLED OUT WITHOUT FINISHING WHAT WE STARTED.

Answer 6

No, their country has been bombed back to the stone age and thousands of Iraqis are trying to leave.

Answer 7

Many areas have no electricity, which means no refrigeration. Little fresh drinking water. The economy is in the toilet, which means many have no jobs, no money to buy the necessities of life. What else is there that can go wrong for them? I cringe at the thought of what they must be going through.

Answer 8

The Hidden Horror- 650,000 Iraqis dead - now that's 'liberation'!
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=9854
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15385.htm

Answer 9

Prior to the U.S. getting involved the majority of people there had dead end futures. Now they can experience hope.

Answer 10

Um, yes. Democracy beats a dictatorship in any game. No more rape rooms, genocide and invasions of Kuwait. I think it's going okay.