Are the people of Iraq better off now then before shock and awe?

[SammyWinstonJack]

What did they gain by the US ousting Saddam? I am not a Saddam loyalist by any means, I am just wondering how the Iraqi people have faired better under our occupation of their Country? How have we made life easier for them? Have we made life easier for them?

[Goldmund]

1. Sure sound like a Sad-damn lawyerist to me.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

2. i hate saddam too

still one has to wonder how the very same people who established him in the first place (rummy etc) will find a better replacement this time round.

also i sure they are shocked at how hopelessly incompetent our take-over has been and awed by our apparant disregard to their misery.

[coalition_unwilling]

9. Meet the new boss (Allawi) . . .

Wonder how many people are aware that the Sydney (Australia) Morning Herald reported that roughly a week before he became Interim Prime Minister, Allawi showed up at a detention facility and shot to death 6 detainees.

As head of Iraqi National Accord, Allawi received large amounts of CIA funding and has been variously associated with car bombings in Baghdad and Mosul during Saddam's reign.

[Sir Derek]

3. They don't have water, electricity or a job, and they can't

leave the house because of all the violence, they may also be heading into a civil war, but other than that things are much better.

[BlueEyedSon]

7. Yah and they have no jobs.... think of all the free time they have to

enjoy their "bettered" situation!

[SammyWinstonJack]

11. yes indeed!

No wonder they haven't "thrown flowers" at us!

[AuntPatsy]

4. Well that depends, if one is inside the green zone they have

fresh water, electricity etc,and twenty four houred armed guards to protect them, if outside this protected area, they are in danger of falling missle attacks from the Americans as well as attacks from those fighting to rid themselves of the American occupation, left with no proper sanitary conditions, having to rely on generators since millions are still without electricty, no cable, the highest rate of unemployment ever seen, at least they are free of Saddam what more do you want?

[The_Casual_Observer]

5. The longer this thing goes, the more obvious it is that nothing

is better than it was with Saddam. In the end it will require another Saddam guy to subdue all the factions in play in Iraq anyway.

[gratuitous]

6. Well, the morgue is doing a bang-up business

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/26/international/middleeast/26morgue.html

Killings Surge in Iraq, and Doctors See a Procession of Misery
By ALEX BERENSON

Published: September 26, 2004

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Business is booming at the Baghdad morgue.

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All ye need to know . . .

[HysteryDiagnosis]

8. Bring out yer dead... bring out yer dead... Monty Python Holy Grail n/t

[LibertyorDeath]

10. No & here's the proof

http://harpers.org/BaghdadYearZero.html

best info on Iraq bar none.

This is the beyond good