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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (4906)	2/2/2003 8:35:55 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

That's quite a fairy tale. Perhaps he also has some baby-incubator stories to share? He takes Saddam's positive achievements: Before 1990, the Iraqi people had one of the highest standards of living of any Third World country. . . . and attributes them to the monarchy that predated Saddam: This was because of an educational program with state subsidies initiated during the monarchy, which ended in 1958. . . . thus revealing his contempt for his audience (he was correct, in your case). But this raises an interesting question: if the monarchy was so good, and Saddam was so evil, why did the U.S. support Saddam in his successful military coup? Tom