5 years after the symbolic demolition of Saddam Hussein's statue, are things better for Iraqis?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/five-years-after-fall-of-bag hdad-allday-curfew-is-imposed-807020.html

"This is not quite what we had expected five years on," a State Department official in Baghdad acknowledged.

Ibrahim Khalil, who was in the crowd that day, said yesterday: "If history can take me back, I will now actually kiss the statue of Saddam. I am sorry that I played a part in pulling it down. I think now that was a black day for Baghdad. We got rid of Saddam, but now we have 50 Saddams. In his days we were safe. I ask Bush, 'where are your promises of making Iraq a better country?'"

Abdullah Jawad, another who took part in the destruction of the statue, said: "Let me see what has happened since then, just to me. I have had a brother killed and a niece who has been kidnapped and we have not seen for five months. Our country has been destroyed by foreigners, not just the Americans but the extremists who came to fight them on our soil.

"Saddam was a brutal man and we were supposed to be free when he went. But there is no freedom when you fear for your safety every day. When I see on television people in America and England say things are getting better in Iraq, I think, why don't you come and live here and see what it is really like?"

I will buy Herb or Nwokie a plane ticket and personally pay for their stay for 1 month in Iraq. Then you guys can report back to us on how good things are in Iraq. Please, please take me up on my offer, I've got money burning a hole in my pocket ready to prove you wrong.

As long as their God is on their side, they'll be safe I'm sure.

But wait, those terrorists think their god is on their side. And they are so convinced of this that they are willing to die for their god.

Brainwashing makes people do scary things!

Brainwashing a kool-aid drinking is VERY scary and the EXTREME RIGHT is in the lead on both.