I read in BBC that the UN secretary general Kofi Annan had said that the situation in Iraq is worse than when Saddam was in power, for Iraqi people of course.
I believe that, beside this fact, Alqaidah was restricted to Afghanistan now they are in Iraq as well.

Some presidential something (advisor or angry guy) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6206480.stm in Iraq did not like that statement and has responded angrily to Annan, not that I like Annan or I believe he has performed as he should in his post, but that the reasoning and the statements of the Iraqi official is baseless and somehow funny.

One of his remarks reminds me of the jokes we had for some of funny Iranian political figures.

The Iraqi official has said that the condition for Iraqi people has improved seven times compared to the Saddam era. God knows where the number seven is coming from.