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Iraq's current government is still siginficantly better than Saddam's regime, depsite being currupt and somewhat dysfunctional (and things have improved over the years in case you dig up an article from a decade ago about ISIS).

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Is it: a) a military dictatorship b) a fanatics hive c) a familyclan run mafia state.

or a hybrid?

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.

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.

Depends which Iraqis you talk to, plenty were killed and had their homes destroyed by Saddam.

For the most part, those were the non-Arab minority, predominantly Kurds.

You can kill those, they ain't gods chosen masterrace.

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