Reply #25: I get angry when pro-war activists ask me if I'd rather we not fought the war

[Rozlee]

and Saddam was still in power. Back in my first tour, I saw Iraqi women wearing makeup, Western type clothing, and driving cars. My daughter is in the Coast Guard and has had several tours teaching Army personnel how to obtain a variety of HazMat certifications. She's told me of no longer seeing women wearing anything but veils and long skirts, no longer driving and having to be accompanied everywhere by male chaperones. With billions going in for reconstruction, she says the place looks worse every time she goes back. Considering how many Iraqi lives were lost as well as American ones, how Iraq went from the 21st to the 12th century, how the Shiite clerics have a strangle hold on the country and have basically imposed Sharia law with the tacit approval of the ruling "democratically" elected leaders, I can say with certainty that I don't believe the country is better off because we invaded it. A Shiite recently took a video of himself proudly hanging and castrating his gay son, eventually killing him to the cheers of several spectators. I read somewhere that while Hussein was alive, Baghdad even had some gay clubs. Now, gay and "effeminate" men are hunted like spectator sport.