Originally Posted by Rochard

I think there is a lot of truth in this....

While we believe Saddam's government was corrupt and horrible - and they were - perhaps it was what they needed. Here in the US (and hopefully most of the Western world) we don't walk into a shop and say "Oh, the shop owner is Muslim/black/Asian/Polish/Jewish so I cannot shop here". We just don't care. This is not the case in other parts of the world, and our culture doesn't fit in.