The folks who have left coming back, living peacefully in mixed Sunni-Shia neighborhoods, as they did before Bush?

Al-Qaeda eliminated from the country, completely gone the way it was before Bush?

All of Baghdad safe for foreigners to walk through, shop, visit? Like before Bush?

I honestly cannot comprehend your almost nostalgic support of the Saddam regime's methods of achieving "peace." Combining that with your furious indignation at the slightest influence on our individual rights, like tracking phone calls, it's a miracle that the two parts of your brain don't fly apart at some measurable fraction of lightspeed.

Or am I just complicating things too much? Is it that you believe some categories of people need to live under an iron tyranny to get along peacefully, and not others?

Saddam's actions killed ten to twenty times the number of Iraqis that have died in this war, never mind people of other nations. Shiites and others were third-class citizens in a nation more apartheid than South Africa. Get over the hero worship already.

What I think will happen is that eventually Iraq will be a better nation to live in than it was during the 1990s. Clear?