Mohammed's father - and many others I have met - say life was better under Saddam Hussein.
Brutal and terrible, but nowhere near as bad as it is now.
Iraq has become Hell.
The horrors are so searing, so frequent that fear is a rampant virus, destabilising normal life so that even a trip to the shops or the walk to school are tainted with deep anxiety.
Is there a suicide bomber on this minibus? Is that parked car a bomb? Is that bag in that bicycle basket somebody's vegetables or explosives?
Under Saddam, they say, you knew where the "red line" was. Now there is no red line.
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My God, dictatorship is preferable to civil war. Not hard to understand, really.
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