Do you think the quality of life for the ordinary citizens of Iraq has improved since the Allies first started bombing, invading and occupying their country ?
2006-12-06 19:08:48 · 14 answers · asked by democracynow 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Have either of you asked one of the troops (more than one is even better) if their quality of life has improved?
I don't think you have. Otherwise you wouldn't be spouting this garbage.
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heathboy - I'm sure that all the pictures of iraqi citizens smiling with our troops were forced by gunpoint. And the pictures of the troops handing out food and water were just shams.
I'm sure they were much happier when Saddam was in power and anyone who said the wrong thing about him was dragged out of their home in the middle of the night never to be seen again. I'm sure they didn't mind when he gassed the Kurds, and never wondered when he'd round up more people to do it again. I'm sure they didn't mind him taking their daughters to be used as sex slaves until they were dead.
2006-12-06 19:19:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 2⤋
It never ceases to amaze me how people can form opinions not based on facts, but only the ones that agree with them.
If you haven't been over here, you just don't know. Period. The networks won't tell you any good news and rely mostly on second-hand information for their stories. Ask anyone who's been over here for any period of time what's really going on.
As far as the quality of life: yes, for the most part is HAS improved, to the point where power blackouts are now caused by the standard of living being raised so that more people have more appliances (TVs, refrigerators, air-conditioners, etc.) which put a strain on the electrical grid that WE'VE helped to improve. Yes, people are killed here every day by thugs and criminals just like in the U.S., but you never hear the death count on the news at home for any of the 17,000 murders every year in America.
I'm not sure what invasion and occupation you're talking about, since the troop numbers have been decreasing since the formal hostilities ended and power has been given back to the people of Iraq (remember the elections? They were in all the papers). The truth is, we've been bending over backwards to PROTECT the Iraqi people, but you only hear about the bad apples, because 'If it bleeds, it leads'.
2006-12-06 22:01:51 · answer #2 · answered by Mitch 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The quality of life as improved dramatically. The Dinar has steadily increased in value (meaning that the Iraqi people can buy more goods for the same amount of money). Electricity production has increased. Just about every school has been rebuilt or renovated. Agricultural production has increased as well as domestic manufacturing.
Public infrastructure projects have increased the number of paved roads, sewer systems and water purification plants.
The percentage of population with access to health care is triple the prewar numbers.
The unemployment rate has been steadily dropping (and is fairly low outside the Sunni areas).
Outside of a few violence-torn areas most of the country is at peace.
2006-12-07 03:13:45 · answer #3 · answered by MikeGolf 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The problem is that all we actually hear reported is the bombs and killings, while the vast majority of the country is now in great shape, with basic infrastructure in place and peaceful. There is a minor miracle that has occured in the rebuilding effort providing the country with schools and hospitals and roads and other basic infrastructure. In Saddam's Iraq, 400 babies a day died due to lack of basic medical care. That's 400 babies a day. Saddam had allowed the country to slip into such horrendous dissaray, they were on the brink of collapse.
2006-12-07 01:41:30 · answer #4 · answered by The Scorpion 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
First...the obvious answer is no, the quality of the average Iraqi's life has not improved due to the bombing.
And the improvement in their lives since we "invaded & occupied" Iraq has slowed not because the allies...and yes primarily the US hasbeen out to make their lives miserable; it is in large part due to the bad guys blowing up electical power plants,& water purification plants. Murdering their own people with VEBID's, IED's and suicide bombers. Due you know that at the end of 2005 the US has repaired or rebuilt 250 schools in Iraq? That the US has repaired or rebuilt over 100 hospital or clinics in Iraq? No...because the that doesn't sell papers and might actual make people think that US soldier are the good guys.
Obviously you have never been to Iraq and seen the the carnage and devistation a VBIED (car bomb to you) has on a market place populated not by US, Coalition and Iraqi soldiers/police. I worked as a DoD civilian contractor in Iraq for 18 months working side by side with our troops on the ground. One day I was in Baghdad with the troops and a car bomb went off 2 blocks away. We went over to render aid and security. The bomb had been set off in a busy market place and killed over a dozen civilians...bodies and body parts every where.
How do you think the bombings, kiddnapings and excecutions of Iraqi civilians has improved the quality of life for the ordinary Irqi citizen?
By the way....if you knew anything about the history of warfare you would know that every time the battle is conducted in a country and in the cities the quality of life of the citizens declines. Why wouldyou think it would be different in Iraq? The quality of life suffered in the souther states during the Civil War...why aren't you compaining about that?
Perhaps you should learn all the facts...good and bad...about the successes over in Iraq.
2006-12-06 19:45:34 · answer #5 · answered by iraq51 7 · 1⤊ 4⤋
You're kidding, right?
I'm sure there are many Iraqis who would say that they simply love not having clean water, electricity and the lingering threat of troops bursting into their homes and scaring the crap out of them. I'm sure the ordinary Iraqi citizens love the instability of their society and the fact that they have never, EVER done anything that would've posed a threat to any American. And I'm sure they are enjoying the bout of ethnic cleansing (because that's what this whole thing has become) that has pitted neighbor against neighbor.
Yeah, life has certainly improved for the Ordinary Iraqi Citizens.
Can't you see it amidst the rubble and ruins?
2006-12-06 19:17:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 6⤋
The answer to your question is no. Life has not improved in Iraq. Only deranged lunatics like Bush would beleive that the Iraqis are better off right now.
The political environment in the Middle East is very dangerous right now. It could explode at any moment, especially if an invasion of Iran takes place.
2006-12-06 19:15:48 · answer #7 · answered by Zabanya 6 · 2⤊ 6⤋
Not a chance - poor sods - Bliar and Bush should be ashamed.
2006-12-08 22:14:50 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure,
now they can kill each other in the name of Alah and blow-up as many of our troops as they can while we stand by and wait for the "reports" to come in, or at times insult each other here on Yahoo
2006-12-06 19:20:00 · answer #9 · answered by dorianalways 4 · 3⤊ 2⤋
150,000 dead! What do you think? And we are even losing that one! What a fiasco!! You can't go outside without being kidnapped or blown up! Water and electricity have not improved in 3 years! And then there are the US torture camps and murders and rapes by US Military!
Iraq was much better off under Saddam Hussein!
2006-12-06 19:27:32 · answer #10 · answered by cantcu 7 · 3⤊ 6⤋