how rude american soldiers are!
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Deathkneeler — 16 years ago(September 24, 2009 01:47 PM)
Well.. Abt If you ever get back on here..
When it's legal in a country they don't have a problem with. The bad thing is this happens all the time in Iraq and most of the time if a woman is married it is considered adultry.. Why don't you explain what happens to the woman to the posters if this is found out?
OIF 3 and OIF 5
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Simon-140 — 11 years ago(September 06, 2014 07:50 AM)
Oddly, the status and education of women was
much
higher under Saddam Hussein's secular Baathist power.
There
may
have been good reasons for invading Iraq, but WMDs, rape, education and health care were not among them: rape has soared since the US invasion; the Iraqi educational system, which produced a 95% literacy rate, has collapsed, and the formerly free, reasonably good health care system has been ruined by the US.
Saddam Hussein was a monster, but at least his monstrous reign harmed comparatively few. The slightly less nauseating US transitional government (have you seen "Collateral Murder"?) destroyed Iraq's infrastructure and then wasted Iraq's savings in a criminal way.
I have trouble deciding which side was worse.
In the long term, I suspect the US legacy will be more damaging to Arabs and Westerners than the legacy of Saddam Hussein. The US invasion will come back to haunt them - just like the CIA's backing and arming of Osama bin Laden, when he was an anti-Soviet "freedom fighter" (to use Ronald Reagan's words).