Islam Online reported on the 7/4/2007 that: “Iraqis who once celebrated and even participated in pulling down Saddam Hussein's statue four years ago when US tanks rolled into Baghdad in a heart-breaking scene for many Arabs and Muslims are now lamenting the good old days under the late president.”One participant now claims "I really regret bringing down the statue. The Americans are worse than the dictatorship. Every day is worse than the previous day".
"We thought the fall of the regime would bring freedom, reconstruction but as the days passed we saw it was lies. This new statue (which is ironically called “Freedom”), is of injustice, inequality."
"We thought the fall of the regime would bring freedom, reconstruction but as the days passed we saw it was lies. This new statue (which is ironically called “Freedom”), is of injustice, inequality."
According to Bert de-Belder of Al-Ahram: “A recent UNDP-backed study reveals that one-third of Iraqis live in poverty, with more than five per cent living in abject poverty. The UN agency observes that this contrasts starkly with the country's thriving middle- income economy of the 1970s and 1980s.”
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