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To: epicure who wrote (9432)	7/24/2006 5:25:10 PM
From: JDN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14758

Have you seen the recent polls taken in Iraq? There the citizens LOVE their new govt. Are happy USA deposed the old regime etc etc. The news media is not telling us THE TRUTH. jdn

To: epicure who wrote (9432)	7/24/2006 6:43:48 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14758

It is easy to depict Iraq as a horrendous mess which was created by us. But I recall that Iraq was no bed of roses to begin with and that we we've been engaged with Iraq ever since the war to free Kuwait. It is a country in which hundreds of mass graves have been documented. Estimates of the number of missing people go from several hundred thousand to over a million. In the Iran-Iraq war, at least a million people were killed. An unknown number in the war over Kuwait. He came to power in 1979 and started the Iran-Iraq war in 1980. After it ended in 1988, he invaded Kuwait in 1990. As long as Saddam ruled, there was always going to be another war unless we kept troops on his border and enforced sanctions forever. It is interesting to me that the left once condemned the US for the (UN) sanctions which were said to be killing 50,000 Iraqi children per year. Now we are being condemned by many of the same people for the terroristic violence which is taking fewer lives than sanctions supposedly were. So is Iraq a horrendous mess? Sure. But it has been ever since Saddam came to power and we've been engaged in that mess ever since Kuwait. Will Iraq have a full-fledged civil war? Maybe. We had one ourselves. It's up to the Iraqis.