No, I am not talking statistics. I'm talking about an observation I have made many times. They say their families that live there did have a hard time during the war, but that it was no more, and usually less hard than during the Sadaam regime. They feel safer. And the price of Real Estate is way way up. Along with the entire business world in Iraq being quite a bit better than anyone can remember. You very well may argue the US should never have gone in to liberate fellow humans from a horrible dictatorship and it's a good discussion. But the folks on the ground in Iraq are happy with the outcome.
--- On Tue, 1/19/10, gary popkin <[email protected]> wrote: From: gary popkin <[email protected]> Subject: [Libertarian] A common procedural error in statistics To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, January 19, 2010, 4:34 AM I imagine that Bruce interviewed only surviving Iraqis. By observing only surviving veterans of the Vietnam War, you can confirm that no American military died. By interviewing only surviving bars and restaurants, you can confirm that smoking bans increase business. (Some of the customers from the bars and restaurants that were forced out of business frequent the remaining ones; all the other customers stay home.) One would also expect employee salaries to be lower, now that there are more of them on the market and the working conditions are better. --- On Mon, 1/18/10, Sasan <sasan.sadat@ yahoo.com> wrote: I wonder if the hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqis think that they're better off than they were before Saddam. What do you think, Bruce? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
