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submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Iraq is definitely better off than they were under Saddam, if you want a more recent example.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

All it cost was untold suffering and a million dead Iraqis to overthrow the dictator America installed in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

a million dead Iraqis

Source?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I googled it, results vary from 250k to 500k, so not quite a million but still, that's a lot of deaths. Either way, the US government's real reason for that war was not to save the country from dictatorship ...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Point of Clarification. Are you calling Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer a dictator, or referring to an earlier point in time?