"Up and running"
Yes, to give one group power over another without consensus is sure to bring years and years of more bloodshed.
Hussein may have been a dictator, but at least his country and countrymen were up and running.
That combination of sentences is so bizarre, and so typical, I thought I'd repeat it.
A little more on Saddam's "up and running" country here.
Spend some time on that site, Lindy. Some people need reality checks. You need a reality revision.
Good to know that a totalitarian system would be just fine with you as long as it was efficient, and nobody was getting killed where you had to hear about it.