Iraq is no safer than it was in 2003, when Saddam Hussein's dictatorship was overthrown.
That's not according to some Bush-hating liberal hippie or even one of those dastardly intellectually honest Republicans like Sen. Chuck Hagel or Rep. Ron Paul.
It's according to none other than the very guy who planned the aggression in the first place: Secretary of War Donald Rumsfeld.
Too many Iraqis risk life and limb simply by leaving their home, but hey, at least they have a nominally elected government!
Security (as long as you keep your political mouth shut) is one thing that authoritarian regimes regularly appeal to in order to gain or remain in power. Until the US occupation and Iraqi provisional government can provide even an approximation of security, then the risk of a return to authoritarian rule is a distinct risk. One only needs to look at how the chaos of Russia in the 90s paved the way for Vladimir Putin's rise to elected czar... and the Russian people's embrace of that status quo.
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