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Originally posted by Spanky
There you go again. No one ever said that it is not possible that we will get something worse. Just unlikely. Things were pretty bad under Saddam Hussein so things will really have to screw up badly in Iraq for things to get worse than life under Saddam. Iraq is a paradise right now compared to what it was under Saddam. Your view of how bad things are in Iraq right now are distorted, and your view of life under Saddam is distorted.
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Well, I was talking to Hank, not you. Be that as it may, one virtue of the Hussein regime was the relative stability it brought to the area, inc. as a counterweight to Iran. Another is that Hussein was not sympathetic to Islamists. While what comes will probably be an improvement as to human rights, it could be a big step backwards on both of those fronts.
