pagal, you seem to have "forgotten" to have mentioned the anfal policy in your mammath post.
you should research the events that occured in the village of halabje in march 1988. approx 5,000 dead in one hour.
i agree, people have died as a result of the west liberating iraq, but i'm sure that in the long term less people will die, the only difference is that now the media are free to work there.
when saddam took over, iraqs economy outweighed that of countries such as portugal and greece. in 1999 it was more akin to the econonomies of countries in west africa.
i hope in a few years time the problems will have been ironed out, a government will be in place and iraq will prosper. maybe then some other middle eastern countries will adopt democracy? who knows
