Iraqis live better? I have to question this for its merit against the realities on the ground. Saddam may not have been Prince Charming but how is today better for Iraqis then without his ironfist keeping the country together? If it is about the WMDs, that was bushit! If it is about free a repressed people, why aren't we stopping the genecide in Sudan or do the same in other countries with worse leaders? If it is to create a democracy then why do we knock down these puppet leaders when they decide to actually speak up for their country against the Bush crime family's agenda? It is the oil, stupid!
Iraqis: life is getting better
Marie Colvin
Life getting better?
From the same paper 650,000 iraqis dead says "one in 40 of the population – had died as a result of the American-led invasion in 2003." Winning hearts and minds, huh?
The civilian population is leaving for neighboring nations because their own houses and homelands burn. They know that a civil war will not end soon and without widespread cleansing of one religious faction or the other. The entire region is a powder keg with the fuss lit. Our withdrawl is eventually inevitable because U.S. Army `About Broken'. and can not sustain at these numbers. But then again, it is not likely we will be leaving soon because of the 14 permanent bases including the one in Baghdad the size of the Vatican City. Either way, if we stay or if we go, the sunnis and shittes are killing each other with our boys and girls targets in the middle.
As one comment response to the articles reads, "Oil production, water treatment and electric availability as well as virtually all quality of life issues remain far inferior to pre-war levels. By nearly all accounts the whole of the Iraqi population are far worse off these days." David Zevtchin, Philadelphia, PA, USA
The new weapon of choice is chlorine bombs. Civilians are most likely to be the targets of these attacks so how they can feel so happy about life with war and choas all around is unfathomable. Life is NOT better there and we all know all, who do they think they are kidding?