That was a US sponsored embargo, and the US used the no-fly zone to conduct war.

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Bowser — 9/2/2006 9:40:35 PM (archived)

As for conditions pre-invasion, those were largely due to the US and Britain, too. Now, as for their "liberation" -

What you don't acknowledge is that Saddam was brutally repressing a civil war. Fairly successfully, by the way.

Bush is brutally repressing a civil war. Unsuccessfully, by the way.

And there are 75,000 soldiers in Baghdad, and they can't secure the very capital of the country. Do you understand the implications of that?

Iraqis endure worse living conditions than under Saddam, UN survey finds. Here.
"Daily living conditions in Iraq dismal, UN survey finds" UN News Center
"Iraq Living Conditions Survey 2004" United Nations Development Program
"http://www.iraqbodycount.net"; Iraq Body Count
"Mortality before and after the 2003 invasion of Iraq" The Lancet
"Iraqâ€™s ministries struggle to serve" Christian Science Monitor
"Iraqis soldier on without power, water, jobs, sewers" The Times (UK)
"Iraqi living standards plummet" BBC

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Basic services, women, children better off under Saddam than Bush - Bowser - 9/2/2006 4:51:23 AM
- When in doubt....follow the money - Lindy - 9/3/2006 1:26:43 AM
- Another vote for tyranny! - Tom Brosz - 9/2/2006 4:44:40 PM
  - Bizarro world - Robert - 9/3/2006 5:08:13 PM
    - re: Bizarro world - Tom Brosz - 9/3/2006 10:05:21 PM
      - "constant leftist attempts to whitewash his (Sadam's) regime"........ - Lindy - 9/3/2006 11:21:55 PM
        
        "Fascist Appeasers" - Lindy - 9/4/2006 1:48:40 AM
        
        Read the speech, Lindy. - Tom Brosz - 9/4/2006 4:11:17 AM
  - US troops in the street, Abu Ghraib, etc. Bush ain't a tyrant? - Bowser - 9/2/2006 5:53:41 PM
    - That response was information for other people's benefit. - Tom Brosz - 9/2/2006 6:08:29 PM
      - That was a US sponsored embargo, and the US used the no-fly zone to conduct war. - Bowser - 9/2/2006 9:40:35 PM
        
        re: That was a UN sponsored embargo - Tom Brosz - 9/3/2006 2:10:28 AM
        
        And Korea was a UN war, Vietnam SEATO, and other nonsense. - Bowser - 9/4/2006 11:58:47 AM

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