“Systematically exterminated” by whom troll?
Systematically exterminated by Saddam’s dispossessed Sunni Ba’athists, aka AIQ, aka ISIS. The Sunnis who were trained, supplied and advised by the KGB/Russia along with KGB/Syria.
Kinda overlooking the half million Shia KGB/Saddam murdered prior to 2003, the Kurds up north and the KGB-sponsored chemical weapons programs which KGB/Saddam’s cousin, Ali Hassan al-Majid (Chemical Ali) used to gas and kill 5000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halabja_massacre
In 40 years did KGB/Saddam bring elections to Iraq? A representative republic? Whereas it took the US, Coalition and Iraqis less than 5 years to do it. So a representative, pluralistic republic was never KGB/Saddam and Ba’athists objective. So don’t take credit for what the US, Coalition and Iraqi republicans did - which Russia, the KGB and their fought against. TROLL!