But still, that was what, 12 years or so prior to the U.S. using it as one of the reasons to invade?

>I disagree that Iraq was no better or worse than other similar dictatorships. In many human rights issues, that is true, torture and fear too. Howevever, Iraq used chemical weapons on Iran and its own people. No other country has done that as far as I know.
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>>>My point was that Iraq is a medieval society. They were before we went in and will be after we leave.
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>>Actually, they were a secular dictatorship, no better or worse than a dozen others in South America and elsewhere, that a certain north-American country propped up over decades.