The primary reason why Iraq is still hurting, is that all the oil money from Iraqi oil, is going to British and American oil companies instead of the Iraqis. There were never any weapons of mass destruction. It was all about going in and grabbing the oil. In Afghanistan they were only concerned with building an oil pipeline to the Caspian Sea, so the rest of the country was left open, and the Taliban returned. When ti comes to wars, to find the real goals of the war, not they say they are, but what they really are, you have to look at what actually happens or is accomplished by the war in terms of money and profits.

Some dictators are worse than others. I think many start out with good intentions, but as the saying goes, "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." most dictators get to power by means of killing a lot of other people. Having got power the y use the military to retain power. Most are insecure about their position, as they know another person can rise to overthrow them, just as they overthrew the last guy, so they crack down hard and kill more people who are of real or imagined threats to them. They are always wary or paranoid of gettign a knife in teh back.

It's funny how colonel Qaddafi who built the first all female military academy and said "Women should have access to training which will allow them to protect their families the same as men". The same man who built the largest man made river in the world in order to irrigate the desert and provide more fertile farmland. The same man who wanted Africa to form an African union similar to the European union. Who gave women $500 when they gave birth to help with costs. The same man who had his country illegally bombed by the US forces who butchered orphanages and hospitals, left dead in the streets, including his son who was killed during the first wave of bombing. Sounds like the US is very fond of preemptive strikes on civilians.