I think that it is too early to tell some things, but with luck there are all kinds of positives that are going to unfold --

I had hoped that they might do something about the hideous child mortality rate they were partly responsible for, but after the invasion the collapse of the water system, etc., probably spiked it back up again. But with luck the hospitals will recover, and they can get back to a decent health system (they had one of the Arab world's best until the late 1980's). That will be completely positive.

They have inadvertantly made it possible for the Marsh Arabs to begin to reconstruct the marshes in the south.

Getting rid of Saddam and his disgusting sons is absolutely positive.

yours,

Peter T.