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We were told that we invaded Iraq to, in part, bring a better life to the people of Iraq. How have we done?

1. They no longer have to live under Saddam Hussein, with his torture and killing of Iraqi citizens.
2. There are no Weapons of Mass Destruction in their midst.
3. They had a national election a few years ago
4. There are no terrorists collaborating with Saddam.

Now the Iraqi people enjoy the best of the dreams of American conservatives. Here's a Top Ten (or so...) List of the coolest things about living in Iraq:

• No Gun Control.
• Only 1 legislative body to buy.
• A free market, restrained only by guns and bombs.
• No one watches Michael Moore's movies.
• A pure supply-and-demand system with low supply, high demand, and astronomical prices.
• People willing to stand in line and pay any price for gasoline.
• No trial lawyers.
• It's easy to keep the peasants happy: free air conditioning in every building.
• No Canadians next door.
• Gated communities rock!
• No credit card bills.
• Law according to a book of faith, written many centuries ago, as interpreted by whomever has the biggest, baddest arsenal to enforce the law.
• No illegal immigrants.
• An unregulated health care system where them that gots is them that gets; everyone else gets eaten up in the dog-eat-dog world of natural selection (that same 'natural selection' process which doesn't exist, according to many conservatives).
• No Pure Food and Drug inspectors.
• Huge demand for items containing lead and spent uranium (are you listening, China?)
• No liberal media.
• Don't have to waste money on infrastructure such as roads, bridges, sewage treatment, water treatment (clean water is for losers, anyway).
• No liberal professors in the colleges, corrupting the children.
• Everything is privatized - even the militias.
• Don't have to worry about having to sue businesses.... or neighbors."
• No Social Security.
• Can build noo-kew-ler power plants anywhere, any time.
• No minimum wage.
• Most minorities know their place and lay low or leave the country.
• No zoning laws.
• Education only for those who can afford it.
• No environmentalists.
• Tax collectors too afraid to venture out to collect.
• No pollution control laws.
• Might makes right.
• You don't have to get confused by saying 'reform' when you mean 'get rid of'.
• No damned 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th Amendments
• Cops don't have to bother with "you have the right to remain silent, you have the right to an attorney...
• Religious freedom, as long as you worship at the right place.
• No worries about having the right shoes or dress for the occasion.
• Women's health issues are not worth considering.
• A "Flat Tax" on income (really!).
• No saftey inspectors.
• Screw the U.N.
• No insurance premiums to pay.

and the number one cool thing about living in Iraq

No Democrats.

Dick Cheney: if you're reading this, try to not get any on the keyboard. It makes the keys all sticky.

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The war (in Iraq) was wrongly threatened and wrongly declared and wrongly waged, but it's better than no war at all.
-- Argus Hamilton

Wrong war, wrong place, wrong time.
-- me

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war,Pick Your Battles (Part 31873 ) - 6/13/2008 had a punch line: when using might to make right, 'conventional wisdom' goes out the window. The reality is that as troop levels go up, the probability of succeeding goes down.

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