Originally posted by: Luke Skywalker
no it wont. but neither will spending billions of dollars on a war which is making certain areas more worse of and poor than they already were.

Haven't read the everthing here, probably not going to read everything because I, like Darth Chaltab, would probably be better off keeping out of the discussion.

However, I must take issue with this comment. Maybe I'm mis-reading it, maybe I'm not. If you think Iraq is becoming worse and, more importantly, poorer, I have to disagree.

The Kurdish regions in the North are actually doing so well that those few coalition still there are hard pressed for things to do. The Kurds are so much better off than they were under Saddam. Schools are being built and stocked with materials at an amazing pace all over the country, and much of the work is being done by the military. Money produced by the sales of oil is no longer being stockpiled and hoarded by the Saddam handpicked elite. The people finally have the freedom to own things like cell phones and satellite dishes.

Is it a warzone? I'm not denying it is. What people are forgetting is that rebuilding and stabilizing a country is not a 2-4 year process. The US government was still in Berlin in the 1960s...that's over 15 years after the end of World War 2 and we have a great deal more cultural similarities with them.

A media that feeds on the ratings generated by bad news fails to show all the good being done in the country.

I may, at some point, return to address Arnie.D's original comments. I'm not sure.