Imagine that you are compelled to live in iraq?

Question

You choose to live in iraq under Saddam (dictatorship but security)
Or under the American occupation (now and insecurity)

Bridgit : i m from iraq and under saddam like all arabic or African countries if you don't talk about politics you live in security.

women , non muslims and even gays lived in security , not like now under the occupation,

Sgt.G'sGirl : your husband is a criminal

hooker for life: rapes it s now by your soldiers. i hate you b/c you are stupid amercians .... I hate you !!!!!!

i hope he will died .

Answer 1

I spent 6 years with a woman that had her Father put in prison for 2 years, her brother in law got more but escaped, his brother stayed in prison for 6 years, a niece of his walked from Tra Vihn thru Cambodia to Thailand when she was 12 unescorted, the brother in law and her sister had taken the same route with their 2 sons a few years earlier. She left in 78 after her mother died with a 2 year old son, fathered by government official that gave her the choice of put out or die.
2 days at sea the ships engines died and they drifted onto a reef off a small Malaysian island. Many drowned trying to get to shore.

I met a guy in the Army that had walked thru Romania finally getting to Austria (he estimated 600 to 800 miles) from Georgia in 1968. I worked with a kid that walked about 200 miles thru Yugoslavia to Italy in the early 80's. I knew a guy that had escaped Hungary in 58.

They all share one thing in common. They would all happily put a bullet in the head of a communist/fascist.

Ever noticed that more people have died trying to gain freedom than lose it. Hear of anybody sneaking into China?Russia?Cuba?Darfur?Egypt?Libya?India? Stuffed in a cargo container?????

Answer 2

Why would there be any doubt? The simple chance of freedom is better worth the travail.

I think many of my countrymen ought to live under a dictator for a time, just to gain some needed perspective.

Answer 3

hey, Adam, how bout i leave the imagination up to you, i chose to leave my brain out of the frying pan, no drugs here, dude. I am quite happy right here in my little mid-American apartment style home with my kiddo going to school getting an awesome education, another off in college, and one that has chosen the military! Life is wonderful here in the United States! I do have our wonderful military to thank for those choices!

Answer 4

Saddam offered security?? From what? He captured, tortured, and killed his own people. How is that secure? I hate to answer a question with a question but I am confused.

Answer 5

Rape camps equal "security" to you?

Funny, my husband has been to Iraq, 3 times in fact, and he's never raped anyone.

You can hate me and you can call me childish names, all it does is make me laugh even harder.

You hope "he will died"? Learn grammar. I said he has BEEN, he's not there anymore.

You are a prime example of why ignorance should be painful.

Answer 6

You only had security if you walked in lockstep with Saddam. He took, you gave.

Answer 7

You somehow forgot to mention about the warring secretarian factions within your own country whose members will gleefully torture and kill your own countrymen. Or how about poor Youssif who was doused with gas and lit on fire by masked men? Your barbed comments say nothing about these atrocities. And it appears that you forgot about your own country's history. What about all the atrocities that were committed by Saddam Hussein who tortured and deliberately killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis? He also killed as many as 100,000 Kurdish men, women, and children in a crime now generally acknowledged to have constituted genocide. Here is a list of his crimes that you chose to ignore:

two bloody wars leading to the deaths of Iraqi civilians and inhabitants of neighboring countries;

elimination of one million people (5% of the population) since Saddam Hussein took power (this figure does not includes victims of wars with neighboring countries). Not even the Sunni minority and his own family were spared;
disappearance of 8,000 men in Kurdistan (Barzan region) and 10,000 Feyli Kurds;

destruction of 4,500 Kurdish towns and villages;
deportation of more than one million Kurds in southern Iraq and a quarter of a million Feyli Kurds to Iran;

continuation of the policy of ethnic cleansing in Kurdish regions under Baghdad's control, such as Kirkuk, Sinjar, Khanaqin, Mandeli, Makhmour, Tuz and Mossul;

destruction of more than 150 Assyro-Chaldean villages, along with their ancient monasteries and churches, and repression targeting the Turkoman minority;

disappearance of more than 180,000 people during Anfal campaigns. UN Special Rapporteur Max Van der Stoel said that these campaigns were a form of genocide;

massive deployment of chemical weapons (gas) against the Kurdish population in Halabja;

deployment of more than 10 million anti-personnel mines in the Kurdish region (nearly 15,000 individuals have been killed or wounded since the end of the Gulf War);

inhumane and degrading treatment (decrees legalizing the amputation of various parts of the body);

systematic torture, including the rape of women;

beheading of women (at least 130 women were executed between June 2000 and April 2001 for alleged prostitution);

destruction and systematic drainage of the marshlands of southern Iraq;

summary executions (2000 prisoners in March 1998 in just one day in the Abu Greb prison as part of the 'prison cleansing' operation

How about people being thrown into wood chippers or a machine designed for shredding plastic. This is a direct quote from the Times online about how "Men were dropped into [the machine] and we were again made to watch. Sometimes they went in head first and died quickly. Sometimes they went in feet first and died screaming. It was horrible. I saw 30 people die like this. Their remains would be placed in plastic bags and we were told they would be used as fish food . . . on one occasion, I saw Qusay [President Saddam Hussein’s youngest son] personally supervise these murders.

Personally I think I would rather endure the American occupation rather than having to endure the "security" as you put it during the Saddam regime. While I understand the unrest and the warring factions in Iraq, I believe that you have forgotten about the horrors under the previous regime.