Well, at least *someone's* happy.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Kurdistan_-_The_Other_Iraq
In late July 2006, the Kurdish Regional Government in Northern Iraq commenced running the television ad campaign again in both the United States and the UK. The campaign is "aimed at attracting potential US and British investors to the region," the Turkish online publication Hürriyet reported July 27, 2006.
The US public relations firm Russo Marsh & Rogers "is responsible for the ads, which were put together in coordination with the Northern Iraqi Kurdish led government."
Russo Marsh & Rogers also "founded the 'Stop Michael Moore' campaign to discredit the film Fahrenheit 9/11 and a group called 'Move America Forward', which has brought parents of dead soldiers to be counter-protesters at peace demonstrations," Aaron Glantz wrote July 31, 2006, for Inter Press News Service.
"The firm has also brought right-wing talk-show hosts to Iraq" on a "Truth Tour" "to tell 'the good news that the old-line liberal news media won't tell you about'," Glantz wrote.

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Human Rights Watch has estimated that during the eight stages of the Anfal operation, which lasted from February to September 1988, at least 50,000 and as many as 100,000 Kurds were systematically killed.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1854764,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=12
Maybe a "fake" democracy (if only things were ideal!) is a step up from a real dictator who systematically mass murders his own subjects. Maybe.

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I'd be careful quoting Human Rights Watch in an attempt to legitimize Iraq War II -- they are obviously against it and have gone on record saying that life was much better under Saddam's government before we invaded than after.
And seeing that estimates have around 45,000 Iraqis dead since the occupation began, it's hardly a very good comparative argument, anyway.

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