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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
We should have left Saddam alone. Hell, we should have normalized ties with him and used him as a hedge against these nuts. The man was secular, buyable. Instead, we chucked him for a pack of people who jack off to the Koran.
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I would agree with you if Saddam had been more like Pinochet or Lee Kuan Yew (sp?) of Singapore. However, he was running a kleptocracy. He was driving Iraq into the ground (kind of like the dictators of Burma, or Hugo Chaves if he keeps on the same path) and therefore pushing Iraq farther and farther away from becoming a stable country. The longer he was in power the farther back Iraq was sinking into the mire.
Even with the morass that it is in, Iraq has a growing economy and the per capita income is much higher than it ever was under Saddam. We may have to split it into three countrys, but three countries with growing economies is much better than one moving backwards.
