He had me at “kill terrorists!”
There is some truth... bad as he was, Saddam was a check on Iran. Presidents today must win their wars and win the peace within their terms. Though of questionable wisdom the Iraq war was successful... but that success was thrown away by Democrats and Obama. Recall Harry Reid declaring the war lost?
You know, there have been times that I thought, just wipe them all out. But at the end of the Great Tribulation, when Jesus returns for the first time (Rev 20—this is the first resurrection) He does wipe them all out. ALL of them. All of those who took the Mark of the Beast. How does He do it without killing those who had been sealed by God first (Rev 7)? He gathers them to Him (probably behind His army).
Here’s a letter from the gov’t of a city where Hussein “Oh, he’s using gas!” :
“Halabja penned a letter to Trump criticizing him for his praise of the late Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, Rudaw reports. In July, Trump said Saddam was “so good” at killing terrorists, and in December said “Saddam Hussein throws a little gas, everyone goes crazy, ‘Oh he’s using gas!” mocking the assertions that Saddam had chemical weapons leading up to the 2003 US invasion. No weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) were ever found.”
“We would like to remind Mr. Trump that Saddam Hussein’s use of chemical gas in our city alone on March 16th, 1988 killed over 5,000 civilians, including children, women and men and wounding over 10,000 more,” the letter read.”
“In the 1980s and 1990s, Saddam’s forces brutally gassed Iraqi Kurds. Halabja was the site of one of the worst of these massacres in 1988, when between 3,200 and 5,000 Kurds died in a chemical attack, most believed to be civilians.”
“Trump has been a long time critic of the Iraq War, although records indicate much of his criticisms came after the war began.”
By AL [?] Aug 9, 2016 at Albawaba The Loop
http://www.albawaba.com/loop/iraqi-town-slams-trump-his-comments-saddam-hussein-871190
I can see why Petreaus, with the help of Mattis, would write the COIN strategy to prevent civilian deaths, but they did go a bit overboard with their ROE. If the enemy has a gun and is shooting at you, you have a right to shoot back no matter who is around. What? They didn’t hear his gun go off? Are they protecting him? Shoot him. If family is in the terrorists house, blow up the house.
“Mosul people feel relief, anxiety as liberation nears”
http://gulftoday.ae/portal/6ca3277e-8c6a-4902-9aa6-7d1cd55f1a1f.aspx?
How would they feel if they had Hussein in power knowing that they could very well be gassed but can’t get out?
DT had better start listening to people and think before he gives a speech or Hildabeast will be in the oval office. Pray an old dog can learn a few new tricks because nothing has changed much.