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ashoeafoot
on July 28, 2025
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Why does a fire truck cost $2m
Is it: a) a military dictatorship b) a fanatics hive c) a familyclan run mafia state.
or a hybrid?
ido
on July 28, 2025
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It's a parliamentary democracy with free elections and independent media. It's also chaotic, corrupt, and violent. It's much worse than Sweden or Switzerland but better than many other Arab countries.
dontlaugh
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Talk to some Iraqis, they’ll tell you they preferred Saddam to the current US puppet government.
And of course preferred that their families hadn’t been killed and homes destroyed.
ido
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Depends which Iraqis you talk to, plenty were killed and had their homes destroyed by Saddam.
rayiner
on July 29, 2025
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For the most part, those were the non-Arab minority, predominantly Kurds.
ashoeafoot
on July 30, 2025
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You can kill those, they ain't gods chosen masterrace.
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or a hybrid?