>>>Schools, bridges, roads, hospitals, food.
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>>Well, sort-of. They did not have all of that everywhere and in some cases what they did have was not usable even before 2003. However, I will give you that they had that before 2003 but state (I shouldn't have to clarify my statement because I've made it so many times before) that the primary reason that all of that needs to be provided to them is because it was destroyed by the allies so it has to be refurnished by the allies - REPAIR and REBUILD it's called. But that discussion has been done to death I think (here on the UT)
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>So it's not any kind of aid or charitable stuff, it's just repairing and rebuilding what was destroyed, when they had about a million people more (not to mention half a million who died because of the sanctions... "I think it was worth it", as Madeleine Albright put it).
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>Spinning that as aid or charity is more cynical than I can be.

What's your gripe? We brought them freedom and democracy and we ask for nothing in return.