The US policy towards dictatorships....
Hmm, at those saying the US does the world a favour by overthrowing dictators...
Since WWII the US has covertly or overtly attacked 50-odd countries - and in nearly every case it has been to overthrow a democratically-elected government. Problem is, those governments were left-wing (and thanks to the 1950's 'Reds under the beds' hysteria generated by Macarthyism the US has always equated 'socialist' with 'communist') and were seen to threaten US economic interests (one of the first countries they attacked was Guatemala - they wanted to nationalise the fruit industry - unfortunately for them it was run by a US company whose head honcho was the brother of the then head of the CIA) and so had to go. So the US goes in, overthrows these governments and replaces them - generally speaking - with right-wing military-backed dictatorships that use torture and murder to keep folks in line (tatctics taught to them by the US at the School of the Americas in Georgia). But hey, these new governments are pro-US, so that's ok....
This is why Iran hates the US so much - in the 50's they overthrew Iran's first democratically-elected government (at the behest of us Brits - this new Iranian government was complaining about the amount of oil we were taking off them) and replaced it with the brutal dictatorship of the Shah.
As for overthrowing Saddam. Yes, Saddam was a brutal dictator. He is believed to have had killed some 300,000 Iraqis over the 30 years he was in power. But even conservative estimates put the total civilian casualties of American 'liberation' at some 500-600,000 dead and maybe as many as 4 million refugees....so have we REALLY improved the situation?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
