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Originally posted by ltl/fb
If the alternative is equally or more ruinous to the domestic economy, mightn't we prefer the genocidal dictator?
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We might prefer a dictator if it would mean a better economy, but not a genocidal dictator. A genocidal dictator is never the right option. However, in this case not only did you have a genocidal dictator but one that also was destroying the economy.
In every year of the occuptation the country's economy has grown by more than forty percent. Before the embargo, Iraq was a kleptocracy. The Batthists when the first got in power nationalized all the important industry and pretty much ruined the economy. Saddam took that ruined country and ruined it even more by setting up a Kleptocracy. Then the sanctions hit. There was no where to go but up.
