Reply #12: Girls have been going to school in Iraq for ages.

[Ilsa]

They attend college, they are doctors, lawyers, scientists, etc. Saddam even had a woman scientist in his "cabinet". This freeper must be thinking about Afghanistan.

I think the point should be made that these people were under sanctions that prevented them from getting the medical equipment they need since 1991.

But primarily, none of these things was the reason given for going to war. Soldiers didn't go to Even Paul Wolfowicz stated on MTP that humanitarian reasons might not be good enough for spilling American blood on Iraqi soil.

I don't think the line about removing Saddam from the textbooks is right, either, especially since ruled there for several decades. What do the textbooks do, lie about who was in charge all those years?

I thought Iraq had been selling oil to other countries during the last decade.