Steven Taylor has statistics to show that Iraq wasn’t exactly a thriving paradise before the war.
BUT I THOUGHT IT WAS DUBYA’S FAULT?
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I’m sure Iraq was better off before Saddam launched an invasion of Kuwait and refused to withdraw despite an overwhelming coalition of virtually every meaningful country on the planet, including most of his Arab neighbors. And refusing to comply with the peace treaty he signed and thus drawing a decade-plus of international economic sanctions afterwards certainly didn’t help.
The point of Steven’s post, however, is to illustrate the status quo ante for this particular war given the charges that have been made about US responsibility and, more importantly, lack of progress made during the post-“major combat operations” rebuilding phase.
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