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Money guy...a better analogy for Saddam would be Stalin. Stalin murdered 20 million Russians etc.

Irak turns out to ba a bigger version albeit more wealthy of Haiti under Baby Doc. Infrastructure became nonexistant under their rule...it ultimately was rule by gangsters. I think that was where the USA missed the boat, they didn't comprehend that there was no administration in the country. I think the Bushy administration tried desperately to find something they could latch themselves onto to support in Irak before the invasion..other than the Kurds. There just was no opostion left in the country, the place was in chaos. Anyway you have to give the benfit of doubt to Bush? Also remember the old saying, the plans of mice and men often go wrong. Once the bullets start flying the best laid plans become obsolete. All in all from what we found in Irak, things are going along OK. I had argued earlier that the American people have been so conditioned by one hour episodic TV, that they want everything to nicely tied up and resolved by the time the 11 PM News brodcast is over. Life unfortunatly is more messy than that and doesn't conform to the one hour format.