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Iraq right now is in roughly the same position as it was when Saddam Hussein was there but in the meantime a few million people died and the country went throug
by dfadsadsf 7mo ago
Iraq right now is in roughly the same position as it was when Saddam Hussein was there but in the meantime a few million people died and the country went through a pretty traumatic period.
- csmpltn 7mo agoPlenty of people died under Saddam, too. Do you think the average Iraqi would choose to go back and live under Saddam?
- greazy 7mo agoDuring the years which followed after the invasion, lots did, yes. This is first hand account btw. Now? I'm not sure as the country has mostly stablised.
- bjourne 7mo agoEstimates put the number of people killed due to the American invasion between half a million and a million. Saddam's brutality paled in comparison to the carnage the US invasion caused.
- wqaatwt 7mo agoThis also includes indirect deaths? But if you add up the Iraq-Iran war and all his domestic atrocities it’s not that far (and these are only direct casualties).
- GeoAtreides 7mo agolol lmao is the civilian population being gassed in Iraq now? how about a brutal repressive regime backed by a secret police that tortured and disappeared thousands? is Iraq really the same as it was under Saddam?!!?!?!?!?!??!?!
- tdeck 7mo agoUnfortunately the current Iraqi government has a record of torturing people too. You just don't hear about it ever because they're a US client state. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/10/iraq-people-held-in-al-jedah-centre-subjected-to-torture-and-enforced-disappearance-after-arrests-new-investigation/ https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/10/iraq-people-h... https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/08/19/iraq-chilling-accounts-torture-deaths https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/08/19/iraq-chilling-accounts-t... There was a This American Life story about it which unfortunately I can't find.