Iraqis were better under Saddam

[Vargha Poralli]

Annan's Interview (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/6205056.stm)



BBC: Was it a mistake? Some Iraqis say that life is worse than it was under a dictator.

Kofi Annan: I think they are right in the sense of the average Iraqi's life. If I were an average Iraqi obviously I would make the same comparison, that they had a dictator who was brutal but they had their streets, they could go out, their kids could go to school and come back home without a mother or father worrying, "Am I going to see my child again?" And the Iraqi government has not been able to bring the violence under control.

The society needs security and a secure environment for it to get on - without security not much can be done - not recovery or reconstruction.

And Iraq's National security adviser is Pissed (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6206480.stm)

[Cheung Mo]

That asshole also called me a terrorist sympathiser for smoking pot..

But here I must agree with Annan...At least Islamist death squads weren't killing homosexuals and liberated women on the streets of Baghdad when Saddam was in power.

[Comrade_Scott]

I agree with Kofi annan. this is something iv been saying to people for the longest while, where as Saddam was a tyrant and a bastard you knew which line not to cross. Now if you go out to school or to buy toilet paper you either get kidnapped of blown up.. there are nolonger any lines its all fair game.