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To: TigerPaw who wrote (300010)8/14/2006 10:36:27 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1571602
 
They aren't particularly free, but much of the world isn't. They don't have to deal with the type of terror and wide scale abuse that Saddam dished out. Also its not just a matter of how much freedom they have or how much democracy (very little, but under Saddam it was zero) but also a matter of independence from foreign domination.