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Not true.
TB — (archived)

Your picture of what American troops are doing is almost a year old. Not surprisingly.

As for "worse than under Saddam?"

How soon we forget.

You have to remember that prior to the war, the Conventional Wisdom was that Iraq was a hellhole thanks to the evil Americans forcing sanctions on them. The position of the Left back then was that sanctions were an inhuman burden on Iraqi civilians and should be gotten rid of as soon as possible (something Saddam's weapons teams were waiting for according to the Duelfer report).

Of course, all these same people were telling us a few years later that war wasn't necessary because "the sanctions were working." I am constantly amazed at the leftist ability to literally reformat their own brains, almost in real time.

Also, oil production is pretty much where it was pre-war, and electricity generation is actually higher in the nation as a whole. It's spread more widely than it used to be, too.

More info in the Brookings Index, among other sources.

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