<<"They" is a plural word . Do mean to apply the royal "we" to Saddam?
<<They meaning the Iriqui People would not be true.>>
Uhh, yes, actually, it WOULD be true. The Iraqi people, as I've already pointed out, under the Ba'ath Arab Socialist Party, enjoyed cradle-to-grave free medical care, free education to the end of post-graduate studies even if the post-grad studies were pursued at foreign universities, cheap food and gas all paid for from state oil revenues, none of which had to be shared with foreigners, since the Iraqi government was perfectly capable on its own of developing its own natural resources.
I know that it pleases you to infer that Saddam and his thirty or forty palaces (the number seems to grow with every re-telling of the story) drained all the oil wealth from the poor Iraqis, but the simple fact is that four thousand palaces would have represented a small fraction of the year's revenues. Saddam and his clan and buddies lived very well off his country's oil revenues (which could be said of the leaders of every Middle Eastern oil-producing country) but there was plenty left for the rest of the people, which was clearly evident from the standard of living they enjoyed.
What's currently underway now, and very little publicized, is one of the greatest rapes in history, as well-armed American and British troops prepare to exact "Petroleum Laws" and concessions favouring the "multi-national" (read "British and American") oil companies, who at the end of the day, will be skimming off (in my humble prediction) between fifty and ninety per cent of the country's oil revenues. IF they can get away with it.