[Japo]

Contracts weren't granted to Iraqi companies, not because they were ruined by the sanctions, but because Iraq was a Socialist state and so there were no such things as Iraqi companies, everything bigger than your usual kebab stall was state-owned.

The USA didn't support only anti-communist regimes, Saddam was pro-communist for one. But I repeat, the USA aided him *only* during the war, when it was the clever thing. And even Yugoslavia's Tito, who was a communist, received lotta cash from US taxpayers, simply because even being communist, his being anti-USSR entitled him to. But this pertains to that half of thigs happened which people haven't heard about for some reason.

MM, if the USA is no democracy in your book, let me know which country is or is closest to be. And I'm amazed that, being so very likely that people be shot quite dead or beaten to a pulp, no such things actually happened in so big a country as the USA. I lean to think that you may have exaggerated. And I don't see the media following orders from the White House, with the CNN's news editor saying that US troops shoot at journalists on purpose to kill, and all those late shows ridiculizing Bush every single day --often resulting hilarious I must say. And what witch hunt is that, who's in jail or whatever in the USA for speaking?