Ken, Sorry, I'm behind on my email. But you asked "do you think the average Iraqi is better off now than they were before the invasion?" Honestly, I don't think they're better off by much. Check out these articles. You might have to reconstruct the links to get them to work. What good is freedom if you don't have basic necessities/infrastructure? I fear that this war, and the destruction we caused, is only going to fuel more hatred of the US, leading to more terrorism, not less. http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/05/04/1051987604147.html http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0515-01.htm http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42884-2003May11.html http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=2741433 http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A1 0795-2003Apr11¬Found=true For the British perspective on Iraq, try http://news.bbc.co.uk/ and http://www.guardian.co.uk/ . ~Joy~