Sadaam was a bastard, but at least that country had free healthcare, education, and a near perfect literacy rate.

Sadaam’s Iraq also didn’t have Humvee’s rolling around, because your conception of Iraq comes from the US occupation. But the reason the US today looks like the occupation of Iraq, is because the Imperial Boomerang has come back around:

The Imperial boomerang, or the colonial boomerang, is the theory that governments that develop repressive techniques to enforce imperialism or control colonial territories will eventually deploy those same techniques domestically against their own citizens.