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And over 26,000 innocent Iraqi men, women and children who died as "collateral damage" or in attacks by insurgents.
The obvious anger at the United States is growing. And in the last 18 months of War in Iraq, more people have died than did during Saddams regime during any single 18 month period. It is estimated that during the 35 years that Saddam held some sort of power, he was responsible for 300,000 deaths.less than 10,000 a year.
Regardless of the nature of Saddams regime, dictatorship though it was, it was rather fair to middling in brutality. The Iraqi citizen who did not fall afoul of the government had his childrens education provided for free, through undergraduate University level. All medical care was free. Food was very cheap, housing subsidized. The average Iraqi may have lived in some fear, but on the whole, the average Iraqi did not have the worries that many American suffer from under our democracy. This is not to state that Saddam should have been left in power, just that the Iraqis had things fairly under control regarding their own lives when they were doing things themselves, and the intervention of the U.S. has rather degraded their lifestyle and likely to result in a standard of living that is far more uncomfortable under any form of government that resembles an American Style democracy than a form of government that they decide on for themselves free of American interference.
In many ways the average Iraqi is not better off since the U.S> overthrew Saddam, though the average Iraqi may be better off without Saddam.
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