What he really did was open up with both barrels on George W and the GOPe.
In the Arab World, guys like Saddam are ‘par for the course.’
In retrospect, based on the disaster Iraq has become, Trump is correct. This point of view underpins his contention that GWB made a mistake in going into Iraq and overthrowing Saddam Hussein. All is consistent, and this differentiates him from HRC.
Hundreds of thousands of Christians lived in Iraq under Saddam. Now there a few left, the Islamists have killed the ones that didn’t flee.
No, actually most of what he says is politically incorrect and happens to be true....
Trump for President.
I have been saying this for years.
All those “innocents” Sadam was supposedly killing? Just a bunch of terrorists, and his methods were the only thing keeping them in check!
Trump has often expressed his opinion that Saddam Hussein, even though a bad guy, performed a useful service, and it has been commented upon from time to time by the dishonest media. The only reason it has made a much bigger splash this time, is the medias effort to distract from the Clinton email scandal.
My husband and I were in Saudi Arabia when the butcher of Baghdad was in power. He finally got caught in a little HIDY-HOLE while his grandsons SHOT IT OUT.
From Google: Saddam Hussein's 14-year-old grandson, Mustafa, may have been the last to die in Tuesday's four-hour siege on a house in Mosul, and kept shooting even after Qusay and Uday Hussein, his father and uncle, had been killed, US military officials said yesterday.
I do trust that Trump will know this history of the ALWAYS turbulent middle east.
The CALMEST place over there is the KSA, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, because this country, with the help of the huge American petroleum companies, found UNTOLD WEALTH in that once-poorest nation of the planet.
They are also amazingly hard-nosed with the native plethora of STINKING RICH, wealthy spoiled brats whose wealthy powerful families have given up on them and allowed the KSA to drive those a-holes away.
They first went to Pakistan and Afghanistan because those places are unremittingly Muslim. With money from dissident wealthy Muslims, they were able to bribe their way into the camps of those rugged mountain tribes.
Since only 25% of all Muslims are Arabs, the other 75% can do what they want with terrorism in their own poverty-stricken countries. Indonesia, a HUGE Oriental Asian country, is almost 100% Muslim. They provide for any ilk terrorism. But, their media are controlled rigorously so NO ONE on the outside, that would be the West, gets to ANY truth.
Their media make ours look practically honest.
Sorry if I bored or annoyed...hard to get over that five-year long experience, even after all these years.
'Once you got to Iraq and took it over, took down Saddam Hussein’s government, then what are you going to put in its place? That’s a very volatile part of the world, and if you take down the central government of Iraq, you could very easily end up seeing pieces of Iraq fly off: part of it, the Syrians would like to have to the west, part of it — eastern Iraq — the Iranians would like to claim, they fought over it for eight years. In the north you’ve got the Kurds, and if the Kurds spin loose and join with the Kurds in Turkey, then you threaten the territorial integrity of Turkey.
The irony of history is that he disregared that pov when he became the VP.
Saddamm did not have clean hands when it came to terrorism. IIRC Zarqawi was trained at a Saddam sponsored Madrassa.
People and this author seem to dance around the root.
Saddam took out anyone who he deemed a threat to his authority, terrorist or his own people.
God gives us abilities, wisdom, talents etc.
God lets us choose if we want to use them with the control of God as our guide, or use them by our own control and cause problems. (IE: the difference in USofA using force and abilities trying to irradicate evil but allow people right to speak and demonstrate VS saddam using for his force and abilities for own purposes.)