He was an admirer of Stalin and Hitler. Are you really suggesting he had Iraq on an enlightened path to liberty and peace?
Whether we was or not it does not change the facts that he was a secularist and Westernizer. And he was not alone among our "friends" in Middle East to have unhealthy sympaties.
Are you really suggesting he had Iraq on an enlightened path to liberty and peace?
Baath policy of secularism, emancipation of women, universal education focused on science, sooner or later would produce modern society with expanded freedoms.
Tell me how the present reforms in Iraq will do this job better?