No, it wasn't better then for the Iraqis than now. They were tortured, imprisoned, killed and mistreated by ol' Saddam.

But they are still being tortured, imprisoned, killed and mistreated ...... but now it's by us.

So, that has not changed, but we have been bombed and attacked a couple of times since.

Therefore things are worse now.

I'm not trying to say everything was better before and try to say that cute bunny rabbits were everywhere in Baghdad or anything.

My point wasn't very political, only pointing out that I doubt all Iraqis (or even most) are lazy pieces of shit. That sounds like a rather silly attention-grabbing statement from a schoolboy (sorry, Lyle!)