Is Iraq a dictatorship now?

No!

i never said so fam

@not_matt WOuld you rather live in modern day iraq or saddam era iraq?

Depression ^

saddam killed 250,000 iraqis

sanctions against iraq killed 576,000 children, alone.

in attempting to solve the problem, we made it worse

How many would have died if Saddam continued to live on

maybe more

well we weren't *really* trying to solve the problem, but merely pretending to be

People die in war

Can't get around that

But you have to think long term

in the long term, a better iraq would save many more lives than if we did nothing

but the only possible justification for iraq was humanitarian and getting saddam out of power. humanitarian war is impossible

like you said, people die in war

you can't liberate people through death

You cannot get a dictator out of power without war, comrade

Even Vietnam knew this with Pol Pot

revolutions can take dictators down. imperial meddling makes hierarchical domination *more* strongly entrenched long term

So Vietnam was wrong to act against the Khmer Rouge?

Absolutely not!

"imperial meddling"

In the long run from today, Iraq would be better off

im so triggered by the fact that pol pot is still called a communist

the greater good is a legitimate argument to back

'im only pretending to be a communist for soviet union support'

hey guys look at this commie doing commie things

there's a private subreddit which is pol pot themed

they talk about "pol pot's writings and ideology" lmfao