I saw this program on PBS last weekend...it was a taped teleconference between a group of US highschoolers and Baghdad kids of the same age. You'd be astonished at how bright and open those Iraqi kids were, and many had very little accent at all and some were better spoken than the American kids. But anyway, this was taped after the US had invaded but before Hussein was captured. One of the US kids asked how the Iraqi kids viewed Hussein before, during, and after the war. An Iraqi boy, probably 17 or so, made a few comments that weren't very nice, but he also said that since they didn't know where Hussein was, he expected to be killed for speaking out and that he'd see everyone in heaven. The rest of the Iraqi kids kinda laughed nervously. The American kids looked shocked.
We've got no idea what that kind of life could have been like.
