‘Deal with it.’
You have no idea what you’re talking about. Read my prior post. Telling someone who never endured even five minutes of Saddam’s worst tortures to ‘deal with it’ is sick. Tell that to those who managed to survive, or to those who lost loved ones—not to execution, but to long, long, indescribably cruel & protracted torture. Saddam was a literal Sadist. Not a tough guy keeping a lid on his country. A literal Sadist. Let’s see you put yourself or a close relative in a position to experience even the slightest fraction of the suffering Saddam inflicted. Then you will be in a position to ‘deal with it’.
I don't know enough to pass judgment on any of this -- and neither do you.
But I do suspect that if Saddam Hussein was even more brutal than you say he was, we may be having a more positive conversation about Iraq right now. That's just one of the great ironies about life in the Middle East, I guess.