Saltine Cracker's Journal: Baghdad Liberated

Woke up this morning, on this the 21st day of the war to liberate Iraq from tyranny, to hear and see a giant statue of Iraq's former dictator Saddam Hussein being torn down by Iraqi citizens with the help of a US military vehicle used to lift and tow armored military vehicles when they get stuck, flip over and so on. It was a beautiful site to see the realization of the liberation of an oppressed people.

I would not be surprised to see Iraq become a super power in the world over the next 100 or so years. It makes me wonder what America would be like today if our fore fathers had the help (economic, military, and social) of a power like the US is today when we won our freedom from tyranny so many years ago. I wonder what lessons would have been handed down had there been some guidance from a democratic capitalist nation that had made some mistakes along the way as it developed.

I wonder if said guidance would contain warnings about the failings of large government social programs. Perhaps the advice would promote individual ability, responsibility and success, opposed to systematically beating down the individual for the sake of equal and fair misery and poverty for everyone.