Reply #6: This does seem bone simple, doesn't it?

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If you turned what the U.S. has done to Iraq around, and imagine it done to us, is there anyone anywhere who would think that we were better off? Of course not. Yet, the administration and its lapdogs in the media and sycophants at the think tanks peddle the malarkey that the nation and people of Iraq are so much better off than they were under Saddam Hussein. By what measure? The sole measure that Saddam is no longer in power. By any other measure? Euh, not so much.