Was Iraq better before the U.S. & Co. invaded?

Question

Tens of thousands of innocent civilians have died in Iraq since the war has began,

The U.S.A. has spent at least 100 Billion dollars on this war and it is on the rise... "You got to spend money to make money"

Answer 1

Yap! Iraq was better before the invasion..........and yes the USA are spending more to make more.
They just put a puppet Iraqi goverment in place just to tell the world that they are fair - that puppet goverment will surely be under their oppression now cause they gave him the power.

He has to return the favour by allowing the US to have their hands deep in the oil drums.

.............by the way : Did you know that the highest level of education in the world used to be in Iraq.

Answer 2

Considering the bloodshed and violence happening now in Iraq on a daily basis, if you ask an ordinary Iraqi in the streets, he'll tell you that the situation was far better during Saddam's rule than it is now. True, Saddam is a brutal dictator, but ordinary Iraqis can do their daily activities, children can go to school normally, people can go shopping, go to movies, etc.. But now, people are even afraid to go out on the street. They don't even feel safe inside their homes. Children are not going to school. Even the basic necessities are gone. There's only water and electricity for a few hours each day. Even going to the market isn't safe, as they aren't sure whether they can still make it home alive.

If this is the sort of "freedom and democracy" that the U.S. is giving out to "liberate" every nation in the Middle East, I doubt that anyone would want it.

Answer 3

Certainly no worse!

More people are dead and wounded and the number is increasing daily, no thanks to the invasion led by the USA. Ironically, this huge toll in human lives and wounded is now far greater in four years than what the brutal Saddam and his regime was able to 'achieve' in 20 plus years in power.

If one measures by human sufferings alone, then Iraq was definitely better off in the so-called dark days under the Saddam regime. Since the invasion, no matter what criteria one picks, the occupational forces have outdone Saddam in everything that is bad be it in human lives, rapes, illegal detention, torture, looting, murder, wanton destruction, corruption, forced emmigration, grab of economic wealth, increase in religious and sectarian strifes, insurgency, ethnic cleansing, etc. In short, in almost every facet of bad human activity, the allied forces have outdone the Saddam regime in scale and numbers.

However, the allied regime still claims the moral high ground. The invasion is illegal and cloaked in all manner of pretext. The primary purpose was not so much to protect the USA from terrorists and to free the Iraqis. Rather, it has always been oil. In other words, the unspoken justification is to grab Iraq's natural resources.

After pouring in countless billions which the gullible American public would have to shoulder, the declared aim of liberating Iraq and to then democratise its populace has not happened and may never happen.

Yet now, Bush is asking the American people for another $245 billion to continue with the rape of Iraq. The ordinary American citizens are paying for a 'strange' war while the big oil and military hardware corporations and post-war construction contractors continue to reap enormous profits.

Saddam was considered a huge threat to the 'free' world. He was defeated, given a sham trial for crimes against humanity and consigned to the gallows, a big triumph of Western legal system. He however, met his end in a very diignified and brave manner.

By the same democratic standards, Bush, Blair and co. are also guilty of crimes against humanity but on a far larger scale. Who one wonders, will take them to The Hague or better still to Iraq, to stand trial. When pronounced guilty and guilty they certainly are, one really wonders too whether they would face their hangmen with dignity and equally bravely. Just as well that the West abhors the death penalty!

The Iraqis will now have no chance for 'peace' and also not likely to have any respite from the daily mayham, created by the invaders and the insurgents. Their lives, albeit difficult and hard under Saddam, was at least orderly. Then, their daily needs were met and infrastructure worked.

Today, thanks to the successful removal of the erstwhile brutal regime, their life is topsy turvy, facing possible death, imprisonment, rape, torture and so on in every turn and the only thing certain is that the next day is likely to be worse.

Sad and bad to say, but Iraq was definitely better before the invasion.

Answer 4

Man..................It's so f*****d up over there that the yanks will be studying this incident in Iraq for the next 500 years as part of their school curriculum with in depth questions like why?,How?,Who's idea was it?.This Is just another guise for agendas we will probably found out the truth to in about 20 or 30 years down the track on some documentary hosted by some ground-breaking investigative journo on 60 minutes.

Answer 5

Hmm... What's better really depends on the individual your talking about. Certainly as a community it is in an unpleasant upheaval. Will then end ultimately be better, it's not so easy to say because there are always unforeseen factors in the present happenings world wide, so the future can't be completely, and accuirately, judged without full knowledge all parts of creating it. Certainly we should learn from mistakes and all improve by them, and not be caught only complaining instead of improving the situation.

Answer 6

I would have gladly backed up a revolution in Iraq, in which the Iraqi people got off their butts and took their lives into their own hands. And just as they didn't stand up for themselves back then, they are still not standing up for themselves now. Only now, they have no water, no electricity, their kids are afraid to go to school for fear of being blown up or shot...

It all boils down to something Socrates said thousands of years ago...you can't just "free" someone else. If they don't work for their own freedom, they won't appreciate it.

Answer 7

way better the Christians were protected and free to practice their religion, even the #2 tariq aziz was Christian. over 50% of the teachers used to be women. they had no car bombs, suicide attacks, they had the power on and running water. iraq had some of the best universities and hospitals in the region. iraq was way better off before the anglo occupation. also the occupation has looted and destroyed many artifacts and protected sites 1000's of years old, previously protected under the former leadership

Answer 8

They dont want us there. We shouldnt be there. If they want freedom let them fight for it themselves. We should have flushed the money instead. Would have done us just as much good. The war is just about BUSH not the Iraq people

How are we different from saddam We killed just as many as he did

Answer 9

No. Listen to returing soldiers they will give you the inside scoop.

I find it funny that people say this war is all about Bush when clearly they are making it only about Bush. Might this be because they hate Bush and any an all policies he brings to the table???? Probably so but you can't blame those poor leftys they have nothing better to offer instead. Blind hatred never gets you anywhere.

Answer 10

Saddam killed 1 million Iranians

Saddam got 1 million Iraqis killed.

Saddam kept 15 million Iraqis in chains

Bill Clinton killed 200,000 Iraqis by keeping the UN sanctions in place when they should have been lifted