A Story About Iraq

Yesterday I went to see my doctor who is from Iraq and moved here to the USA when she was 28 in 1980. After we discussed my health needs, I asked her what she thought of what was going on in Iraq.
 I asked her this because I remember a visit I had with her before 9/11...before Iraq was invaded by the US and the statue of Saddam Hussein toppled. She had said..."Saddam is worse than Hitler."

So yesterday she opened up  and these are her comments:
"The Iraqis deserve what is happening to them because they have not learned to live together."

"Bush/USA did the right thing by capturing Saddam and ordering the killing of his sons (who were hiding up north...they were even worse than their dad.)"

When I was growing up in Iraq it was the safest country! We never locked our doors..we would have our garage door open all the time, night and day, we were not afraid of anyone coming to steal our things or hurt us. I could walk home from the university in the dark at 10:30 at night..safely.

When Saddam came into power...he had a circle of people who did his bidding and got rewarded...they were his henchman..if one of them overheard someone say something like. "Oh darn, we have no tomatoes because of the sanction." They would get their heads chopped off. You could not say one thing against Saddam or you would be killed that way.

"The happiest day of my life was when the Saddam statue was pulled down. I was watching it on TV here in this country and I jumped up and down on the couch in celebration..I was so happy! Yes, it was the happiest day of my life."

Bush did the right thing..Plan A was right, take out Saddam. He did not have a plan B and that was bad. They should have put in a good dictator...we do not want democracy. We like dictators..they just have to be good ones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY-V-Bl7GU8 shows Iraq in the 50's...and tells of its history.