In the light of the Halabja atrocity, and the regime’s broader genocidal Anfal campaign against the Kurds, and massive repression throughout the country, the question “Is Iraq better off now than it was under Saddam Hussein?” requires no great deliberation. Iraqis are rid of a dictator responsible for the deaths of at least one million Iraqis, a man who plunged the country into three wars in 24 years, and whose policies (with the international community’s complicity) kept ordinary Iraqis under the strictest sanctions ever imposed by the United Nations.
鉴于哈莱卜杰暴行、灭绝库尔德人的大规模安法尔行动和遍布全国的大规模镇压，对“现在伊拉克是否好过萨达姆治下？”的问题似乎不该有什么疑问。伊拉克人推翻了造成至少百万民众死亡的独裁者，此人的政策（在国际社会配合下）24年内三次将伊拉克拖入战争，并让普通百姓生活在联合国最严厉的制裁之中。是的，伊拉克最好没有这个绝对的暴君。