[Professor S]

If you are seriously trusting Al Jazeera for you balanced news source, then you're just looking for problems. I'm not saying that its all been a wonderful white knight experience from the US troops, but Al Jazeera would have you believe that Iraq was better off with Saddam, which is just stupid and without merit.

Bad things happen in war, but we have to look at the big picture here, and not just isolated incidences and start screaming "SEE?? SEE?? I TOLD YOU SO!!!"

Q: Are the Iraqi people better off without Saddam murdering them on a whim?

Yes. Duh.

Q: Is Iraq better off being a democracy?

Thats yet to be seen, but one would assume so as Dictatorships genarally create more horror than democracies by far.

Q: Is the world better off once a strong Arab nation is made democratic for the first time in history?

Once again yet to be seen, but I believe as many others do that it may be one of the most important happenings in world history. It could literally CHANGE THE WORLD... and for the better.

BTW, the article I quoted was from the Telegraph, but when I tried and bring it up it was too old and had been archived (it was published in early winter I think).