Iraqi Christians were safer under Saddam than under Bush. Sorry to say that. In fact, we all would have been better off if Saddam went on to take Mecca right after Kuwait - women in Suadi Arabia would have ditched the burkha by now and have been allowed to become doctors and drive cars.
PS: IF Saddam did take Saudi Arabia - or just kept Kuwait - he would have been pumping that oil in record numbers of barrels to pay off his debts.
Maybe they should vote for him as a write in.
The Christian Church will only grow through martyrdom. That is a fact. Saddam's regime was a brief respite for Iraqi Christians, who before Saddam, suffered dhimmitude. Muslims have killed Christians since the beginning, so in any case, after Saddam, it would have continued.
I believe one of the Pope's concerns regarding the 2003 edition of the Iraq War was the risk of replacing Saddam's secular thugocracy with a Saudi or Iranian style of Islamic thugocracy. He never quite stated it that way, but that's what I saw reading between the lines.
Maybe they should vote for him as a write in.
The problem is that we have been tiptoeing around the Muslims, hoping they would be grateful to us for liberating them. There are probably many who are, but we should have been much more aggressive with the ones who aren't and are just basically carrying on jihad-as-usual.
The other problem is that the Church has not been very forthright in supporting Christians anywhere, and always kowtows to the Muslims. I doubt that anything is going to happen to change this, even if the unfortunate bishop appears in one of their gruesome videos.
You have a point. He would have had to have sold the oil somewhere, although he could have set the price.
The Iraqi Christians who died under his tender ministrations might disagree.
"In fact, we all would have been better off if Saddam went on to take Mecca right after Kuwait - women in Suadi Arabia would have ditched the burkha by now and have been allowed to become doctors and drive cars."
Saudi was his main protector but would have bombed the crap out of Iraq had he dreamed of taking advantage of his tie (by marriage) to the House of Saud.
I've often posted remarks that said Iraqi Christians were pretty much left alone by Hussein. Now they're easy game for the islamofascists.
Yea , Saddam was a good solution ..right Ok ...