Originally Posted by cmac2012

Holy Bitter Bile, Batman. Try some chamomile tea, good for soothing the nerves.

Could be the insane shia/sunni hatred will not subside for 1,000 years and a govt. like Saddam's is the only sort that can keep a lid on the madness enough to allow semi-civil society to flourish. WTF do I know? I'm just looking at the world through the wrong end of a telescope.

But the notion you were coming close to, that the unrest in Iraq is the fault of Iraqis independent of anything we did is just too convenient.

And Pol Pot didn't get a major helping hand from US bombs in the 70s.