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Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan
I'm sure they were better off under Saddam than they are now. The real question is will they be better off 5 years from now, 10 years from now...a generation from now than they were under Saddam.
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It might reach a point where life is better in 2015 than it was in 1995. But even then, the question will always be whether that improvement in life was worth a decade of upheaval and tens or possibly hundreds of thousands of dead. Telling an Iraqi that he has a better standard of living now (or will have, in the future) is little consolation for the death of his brothers and sisters. At this point, Iraq could be transformed into Eden itself and I doubt the Iraqis would consider it a fair trade-off.