From: "Tony Ingenoso" 

Really?  Egypt, Syria, and Iran have similar infrastructure issues in
poorer neighborhoods and they haven't been in wars as recently as Iraq and
other than maybe Iran, Iraq had more potential oil income than Egypt or
Syria

There's really little motivation for dictators and strong men to improve
the lot of their poorer citizens.  Every dollar spent there is a dollar
less to be stolen.

"Geo"  wrote in message news:42e2e570{at}w3.nls.net...
> Well I sort of think that if we hadn't bombed the crap out of the place
> twice, things would probably be in much better shape than they currently
> are.
>
> Geo.
>
> "Tony Ingenoso"  wrote in message
> news:42e2ba73$2{at}w3.nls.net...
> > Saddam never bothered to fix a lot of things (preferring to implement an
> > "oil for palaces" plan instead), but that's not my point.
> >
> > My point is about a level of public services that never existed
> previously.

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