Saddam fighting his own kind? But they do that all the time over there, as well as help them when a common enemy is focused on (all that help he gave Hamas, al-Qa’eda and others must not be forgotten). There is also his “faith campaign” during the mid-1990s when he financed madrassas and mosques across Iraq.
Ba’athists were and are Islamic national socialists (Nazis for short, or IslamoNazis). Dreaming that Saddam would take care of our problem with Islamic terrorists, when he was one himself, is pure folly, never mind cravenness.
It is interesting for me to realize there are people out there that actually think leaving Hussein in power would have been a good idea.
When he attacked Iran, he started a war that took hundreds of thousands of lives on both sides. Estimates vary on the death toll, but it is believed that somewhere between 600,000 to 1.25 million soldiers and civilians died.
This isn’t the only nation he attacked. He also attacked Kuwait and took possession of it. He committed acts of war against his own people, the people of Kuwait, the people of Saudi Arabia, and the people of Israel.
He used chemical weapons against his own people.
His boys and he would see an attractive woman and order her brought to their palace. The woman’s husband would be ordered killed, and the woman would be used as a temporary play thing until they grew tired of her.
There were mass graves all over Iraq. We know that Hussein had chemical weapons. He used them. We don’t know how much, or when he got rid of them. He may have simply buried them in the dessert like he did his own jet fighters. Reports now seem to indicate so.
He was causing a serious problem when it was decided he should be removed. He was refusing access to facilities where it was suspected he was trying to develop nuclear weapons.
He was still moving large numbers of his troops up to the borders with his neighbors in violation of international agreements. He was ordering the lock-on of our aircraft that was monitoring his activity.
The guy was a known mass murderer and continual threat to the region. He was paying $25,000.00 a pop to the families of suicide bombers in Israel. He was constantly making public statements about supporting international terrorists.
With large Iraqi oil revenue, Iraq’s cities still had inadequate public services. Water, power, sewers, schools... the place was not run by a man that loved his people.
In Iraq women couldn’t attend school.
This is the angelic figure some folks think should have been left in place to keep Iraq under control?
Wow...
I realize that some folks make comments without thinking, but the folks that actually believe this after thinking need to think again.