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Quote by: Gorgo My understanding about Saddam's Iraq was that most people lived lives of relative prosperity. As long as they didn't speak against the state, they had it pretty good. They had almost free medical care, no abject poverty and good life expectancy. They were not free. Now they have none of those things. They can say whatever they want, as long as it's not against the U.S. or the "Iraqi" government. But they can vote for American puppets, so they're "free." |
People needed to completely demonize (admittedly not a tough job) Hussein and to paint the Iraqi people as absolutely DESPERATE for our help and rescue to make our invasion seem necessary. They may not have ben all that desperate and it would appear a lot or Iraqis recieved the benefit of Saddam's love of western culture and if all you had to do was say "yay, Saddam" once in a while I don't see that as a total lack of the freedoms I would consider necessary.
Sucking up to the head of the country shouldn't be too far a stretch for US to understand anyway. There have been a few people here on Volconvo who have equated dislike for Bush with being anti-American. The implication that we MUST support Bush simply because he is in the White House, and to not support
him is somehow traitorous isn't too far removed from enforced "love" for a dictator like Uncle Sadd.