Canada is a free country. USA is a free country. Assuming you have your college degree you will live free and be successful (if you don't you are just as poor as any Iraqi citizen).

List One: the most repressive nations and territories

- Afghanistan (we kicked their ass)

- Burma (nobody's mentioned them yet)

- Chechnya (Russia is taking care of them, right?)

- Cuba (maybe Fidel will die soon?)

- Iraq (Oh, we gotta do something about them right now!!!)

- North Korea (uh, don't they have nukes? I'm afraid.)

- Libya (uh, who are they?)

- Saudi Arabia (well.... they sell us oil, we'll leave them alone.)

- Sudan (they kicked our ass, I'm afraid of them)

- Syria (uh, who?)

- Tibet (we don't want to start a fight with china, they're too big)

- Turkmenistan (who?)

Seems to me there is a whole lot more to deal with than just Iraq.