re: #147 Bob Levin

Saddam isn’t doing it anymore, so, one day, it might end?

I’m sorry, I really don’t understand what you mean by that.

You wouldn’t feel any better about the situation if he was still there, would you?

Of course not. So what? I shed no tears for Saddam.

What I am asking is, given that there is still a corrupt judicial system in Iraq, since there were 2,500 civilians and 1,100 Iraqi cops, military personnel, etc, killed last year, given that Sharia law is encoded in the constitution, that women’s rights are eroded and severely under attack, are the Iraqis actually better off?

articles.sfgate.com

articles.cnn.com

Again: I think we have a responsibility towards Iraq. I don’t think we have actually fulfilled that obligation. I think that we have made it nigh-impossible to do so.