(New York Times) Michael Rubin - I taught for nine months last year in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq and met Sunni and Shiite Muslims visiting from all over Iraq. The Iraqis I know would shed few tears if Saddam Hussein were to go. As one university professor in northeast Iraq asked me, "Why do people in the West think we want to live under Saddam any more than they would?"
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