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minus-squareIlovethebomb@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down6·11 months agoIraq is definitely better off than they were under Saddam, if you want a more recent example.
minus-squareDragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafelinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·11 months agoAll it cost was untold suffering and a million dead Iraqis to overthrow the dictator America installed in the first place.
minus-squareshplane@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoI googled it, results vary from 250k to 500k, so not quite a million but still, that’s a lot of deaths. Either way, the US government’s real reason for that war was not to save the country from dictatorship …
minus-squareMNByChoice@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 months agoPoint of Clarification. Are you calling Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer a dictator, or referring to an earlier point in time?
Iraq is definitely better off than they were under Saddam, if you want a more recent example.
All it cost was untold suffering and a million dead Iraqis to overthrow the dictator America installed in the first place.
Source?
I googled it, results vary from 250k to 500k, so not quite a million but still, that’s a lot of deaths. Either way, the US government’s real reason for that war was not to save the country from dictatorship …
Point of Clarification. Are you calling Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer a dictator, or referring to an earlier point in time?