A Secluded world

"America could vanish in a mushroom cloud and I'd still be sitting there watching Saddam on television as the chorus sang,'The people love you, oh Saddam, and you love the people.'"(112) People who live in Iraq are in total isolation from the rest of the world. Saddam has made his country secluded from the outside world. All the telephones are tapped and on the television is only positive information on Iraq and Saddam. Trying to reach other countries is impossible even for a reporter like Horwitz. But why does Saddam do this to his country? This is really plain and simple; if the people of Iraq have never witnessed or seen how any other countries are ruled then they believe the way Saddam is ruling is the way other rulers are ruling their countries. Saddam makes his people naive to a better way of living. If some people realize this is the way people shouldn't be living and speak out, they will be prisoned and most likely killed. The Iraqis have no sense of freedom of speech, they must speak positively about Saddam no matter what they truely believe. But here in present times, Saddam has been killed and American troops are now in Iraq. Will this change anything? The people have been brainwashed for such a long time that dictatorship is the only way a country can be ruled so it won't be easy to form a democratic form of government in Iraq. Although there culture has been with a dictator with absolute power, Iraq should change into a democratic form of government to help them become more Westernized. This would be for the best of the country for it would no longer be secluded. -ak