Iraq was better when it was under Saddam then it was now.
Great Spirit Reviewed by Great Spirit on . The Real Iraq Commentary has posted the article by Amir Taheri, "The Real Iraq," that I discussed yesterday. Taheri compares the Iraq of today to the one he has known over the past 40 years by looking at five leading indicators. Each supports his view that the country has made extraordinary progress in just a few years. The first indicator is refugees. During bad times, Iraqis have fled, or attempted to flee, the country en masse. Since the toppling of Saddam Hussein, however, more than 1.2 million Iraqis Rating: 5