Before the NeoCons showed up, Iraq was a happy place. They had flowery meadows and rainbow skies, and rivers made of chocolate, where the children danced and laughed and played with gumdrop smiles.
You know that is not an argument.
Neither is Christians, Jews and Muslims living in harmony for centuries.
Granted, it may have been slightly better under Saddam.
...and magic unicorns ate their waste products and shat fruit-flavored skittles in to the hands of happy school children...
and back in 1938 Germany, the trains ran on time and the young people were pure (actual wistful quote heard from a German)