Yeah, Doug, you're wrong. :-) What Greg said, and for the same reasons. The Iraqui people would (maybe) be better off if:

Saddam had never come to power in the first place. (but who can say?)

They would also probably be better off if:

The USA & other countries had not built Saddam up into a big military player to take out Iran, and supplied him with weapons of mass destruction with which to kill Iranians and Kurds.

And if:

The U.N.'s recent desire to avoid war and continue inspections had been honored by the USA and UK.

And so on, and so on...

It's a very complex and very bad situation there, regardless of whether Saddam is there or not. Some people will benefit, most will not. That's the way it usually goes with power politics. A few key players benefit, and millions of ordinary people pay the price. That is what is happening right now.

If you think it is fun, and really great to have your country invaded by foreign troops, your society totally disrupted, your cities bombed, your neighbourhoods looted and burned by various mobs of your countrymen, and so on...

Try it yourself, with you on the receiving end. Then tell me afterward how great it was...if you are still alive.

- LH