Reply #30: I'd say the person who has lost his mind [View All]

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is the one who cannot support his beliefs.

I am questioning what we have been led to believe. why?

1. we were lied to about the reason to go to war with Iraq the first time

2. we were lied to about the reason to go to war in Iraq the second time

Fool me agin, shame on me.

Would I want to live under Saddam Hussein? Fuck no, I'm accustomed to America. But if I were an arab muslim and wanted to enjoy the highest standard of living, literacy and religious freedom, it seems like that was Saddam's goal at one time.

listen to these:

"Largely under Saddam's auspices, the government established universal free schooling up to the highest education levels, supported families of soldiers killed in war, granted free hospitalization to everyone, and gave subsidies to farmers. The government made great progress in building roads, promoting mining, and development of other industries to diversify the oil-dependent economy.

Due to the 1973 world oil shock, oil prices skyrocketed. Saddam pursued an ambitious agenda through oil revenues. Within a period of just several years, the state provided some social services to Iraqi people unprecedented in other Middle Eastern countries. Saddam initiated and led the implementation of the "National Campaign for the Eradication of Illiteracy" and the campaign for "Compulsory Free Education in Iraq."

Largely under Saddam's auspices, the government established universal free schooling up to the highest education levels, supported families of soldiers killed in war, granted free hospitalization to everyone, and gave subsidies to farmers. The government made great progress in building roads, promoting mining, and development of other industries to diversify the oil-dependent economy.

Saddam saw himself as a social revolutionary and a modernizer, following the model of Nasser. To the consternation of Islamic conservatives, his regime gave women added freedoms and offered them high-level government and industry jobs. Saddam also created a Western-style legal system, making Iraq the only country in the Persian Gulf region not ruled according to Islamic law. Saddam abolished the Sharia-law courts except for personal injury claims.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_hussein