--- "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Law and order - They lived under a repressive state > but they were used to that set up. Currently, they > are not sure of who their enemies are or how to > reduce the risk factor in their lives. This > uncertainty can get tiring after an year.
Perhaps, but they don't think so. The majority of Iraqis think things are better, not worse. So making that argument is a little questionable, don't you think? > > Electricity, oil, kerosene, employment etc. - Far > more readily available before the invasion. Objectively not true, period. Electricity generation is now higher than its pre-war peak. What it _is_ is slightly harder to get electricity in Baghdad. Since the Coalition (unlike Saddam) is obligated to provide services to all of Iraq, it can't starve the provinces of power to supply the capital, as Saddam did. Similarly with the other factors. > > Add to that the fact that the occupying power > neither speaks their language nor understands their > culture and society, throw in the midnight raids and > the large-scale arrests one keeps on reading about, > remember the fact that earlier they knew whom to > approach and bribe for information and now they > don't....and you do come up with a picture which, in > many ways, is more unsettled than the picture under > Saddam. It is all well and good that he is gone and > that the Iraqis may actually be able to enjoy > democracy one day in the future. However, I doubt > that makes living in such turmoil any easier on a > day-to-day basis. Again, _they_ don't think so. You don't think midnight raids and large-scale arrests happened before? Some time looking at the mass graves would be instructive, in that case. At least the people arrested aren't dropped into paper shredders now. You _can_ make this argument, I guess, but actually _making_ it makes you an apologist for one of the most brutal dictators in human history - you have to believe all of the propaganda that he and his supporters put out. Are you willing to go that far, Ritu? ===== Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Freedom is not free" http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway http://promotions.yahoo.com/design_giveaway/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
