Dan wrote:
"Cliff" wrote in message
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On 22 Apr 2005 21:29:28 -0700, "
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Is Iraq better off because of the invasion? Probably.

A) They had water.

Only in Baghdad it was common for women and children to carry water many
miles from a common well to their homes in the smaller cities in Iraq.

B) They had no terrorists in the streets.

That is unless you don't count the secret police as terrorists. But
they acted the same way as a terrorist so who counts.

C) They had ~100,000+ more people.

Actually the civilian death toll is only about 27,000 or so. A far cry
from your 100,000.

D) they had limited means of self defense.

Self defense on paper maybe. But defense against whom?????

E) They had electrical power.

Initial survey by the US Government Agency for International Development
indicated that 85% of the Iraqi people only had limited electrical
power. The Power averaged about 10 hours a week.

F) They had sewage systems.

If you call flinging a bucket of human wastes out into the street a sewer.

G) They had shops & businesses.

Yeap and Saddam took all the money.

H) They did NOT have religion ruling them.

And they do now. You need to get a better source of info. The Kurds
have been out from under Saddam for at least 8 years now and they don't
have a religious government.

I) They once had good health care.

Yea right they had one of the highest infant death rates around not to
mention that 1/4 of the people who went into the hospital never came
back out.

J) They once had decent schools.

Yea schools with out books, paper, pencils, and teachers that could
barley read or write themselves.



K) They had oil.

They still got oil. Only now the money coming from oil is going into
the public treasury and not in the the pockets of corrupt French, German
and UN officials.

HTH


Of course, you meant "before" and not "because of"

Dan






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