Seeing all the people clamoring for food makes me wonder where did they get food before the war?
What did people do for a living besides fight for Saddam?
I get the sense the this country and the other oil-rich Arab countries are the equivalent to welfare states with almost everyone on the dole in one form or another.
Take out the oil and the Middle East's entire GNP is about that of Finland (which has 1/100th of their population). First world countries make wealth if a third world countryis rich it's because they breed over it. Masters of technology and industry they ain't.