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Piggy , the natives in Iraq will always agree to disagree.
They are people , who by their very nature are possessive and power seeking and value life little.If you have traveled like i have you will soon realise that we are very much a free thinking state ,
Saddam was a tough nut , you had to be to keep this country in any shape whatsoever. We are only now realising what Saddam had to do to control the , infidels, but a puppet state Iraq will never be.
USA swears by democracy , for the people and by the people etc, so open elections are a must. Another thing who ever is elected will probably have a life span similar to a parking ticket.
I was in Italy this summer and the general feeling there is hatred for Arabs , Muslim and Africans. Italians are by nature very racist , i feel some people on this site should realise that the world is made up of allot of opinions, cultures that stems from years of history and that we are not always right just because we are staying in the boundary of PC acceptability.
But as i say who cares , Saddam or a Saddamesque figure could come back in to power.
USA and UK might have invaded the country illegally but they are the new superpowers and Iraq is just a pawn in the new USA V Terrorism , Libya , Syria and Chinese cold war.
Oil prices have hiked up here for a while , interest rates rise , tell me something new this is the law of economics.
We are bound by OPEC's production of oil , but the real increase in oil comes from the fact that we are running out.
Sure it is only 100- 125 years away but that is not along time to prepare for global change on fossil fuels.