The Left believes that. They claim that Saddam kept the terrorists under control. Of course the Left won’t let us use his methods.
1. Seeing how Saddam was such a monster, one assumes you wouldn’t want to use his methods.
2. The Chaldean community didn’t exactly come out of nowhere during the iron-fisted Saddam years. It has been there for almost 2,000 years. It’s only now with the Bush-caused destabilization of the entire region that most of Christian Iraq has fled into exile and the rest live in fear for their lives.
3. No one among either liberals or mainstream “conservatives” appears to give a thought to these people. I have never heard of any US policy under any administration intended to protect indigenous Christians of the Middle East. They could all drop dead for all this country cares. Indeed, I can believe our leaders would prefer it that way.