Follow the money

"Thousands of reasons made Iraqis hating Saddam, one of those many reasons is stealing Iraq’s oil money for his luxe life leaving Iraqis on the edge of poverty but compare it to today.
At that time Saddam was getting only a small fraction of the exported oil money and he was able to rebuild a lot of things which destroyed by the wars (bridges, airports,…) feed every Iraqi with subsidized food, free education, health, had money for a big army, his own and his family’s luxury life"
roadstoiraq.com