A combination of things and events:Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi people themselves.I feel that the Iraqi people were duped, dominated,manipulated, cheated, coerced and lied to by the Saddam Hussein regime to the point of impotence."Freedom is just another word for nothing else to lose,you got nothing if you aint free!"The combination of ethnic competition, political manipulation,secret police surveillance, kidnapping,murder and rape rooms subjugated the Iraqi populace and confused their national identity into what it became:Saddam Hussein's Monarchy.He took it all and made palaces in a modern world, where palaces are relics.Not a crime, but certainly a step backward in today's age.Stepping ba...

A combination of things and events:Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi people themselves.I feel that the Iraqi people were duped, dominated,manipulated, cheated, coerced and lied to by the Saddam Hussein regime to the point of impotence."Freedom is just another word for nothing else to lose,you got nothing if you aint free!"The combination of ethnic competition, political manipulation,secret police surveillance, kidnapping,murder and rape rooms subjugated the Iraqi populace and confused their national identity into what it became:Saddam Hussein's Monarchy.He took it all and made palaces in a modern world, where palaces are relics.Not a crime, but certainly a step backward in today's age.Stepping backwards is not exactly a hoped-for mandate for your leaders.The Iraqi people have some blame here:where were the Freedom Fighters?Individual freedom is a right which should be demanded and fought for and died for by all peoples everywhere.Especially when one is surrounded by theocracy.The Separation of Church and State is a little-known policy that means, simply, that there shall be no national religion;that's all.Theocracies like Iran violate that to their peril.Government is government:it needs to govern, not preach.Leave that to the preachers.
Dr.MartinLutherKingJr.said,"...the question that Eichmann chose to ignore:How responsible am I for the well-being of my fellows?To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it."Self-determination is innate in the human psyche.These befuddled people are human and they have a right to have their own freedoms, defined by them, and not dictated to them by a master planner and despot likeSaddamHussein. Or the United States,for that matter.The Iraqi people's concept of, need for, and desire for freedom was muddled, poisoned and repressed by Saddam and his henchmen.But they still have the blame: it is their country. Above all, all it takes for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing: we here in the US are good men; we did something.