Really? Ever heard of the Kurds.
‘As long as people cooperated with him he didn’t bother them.’
The same is true for ISIS. If you cooperate by converting to Islam or leaving they will not cut your head off and put it on a pike.
Things where significantly better under the occupation and the status of forces agreement hashed out by the GWB administration. Very few people where dieing before we pulled out. The country had become if not a tourist destination, at least quite stable. There where free and fair elections, women where allowed to participate in the governance of the country and a modest peace was found in much of the country.
So I reject your argument outright as false. I also reject the opinion of the Vatican about the Iraq War of liberation. Had Saddam remained in power we have no idea what he would have done.
It is no secret that he murdered hundreds of thousands of not more than a million of his own people. His boys where every bit as brutal and would have slaughtered to stay in power.
For the dead it is of little difference as to whether the killer is a monomaniacal despot or a religious zealot, The outcome is the same.
“Really? Ever heard of the Kurds.”
Hussein did not target the Kurds because they were Kurds. He targeted them for the same reason the Syrians, Iranians and Turks have been hard on the Kurds: They want their own nation. Even when Hussein gassed the Kurds he only did so because he believed - correctly - that they were disloyal to his regime. The Kurds had formed a relationship with the Iranians - the arch rivals of the Iraqis.
ISIS is different. ISIS wants complete uniformity of religious belief. Hussein didn’t give a damn about religion nor did he care much about ethnicity. ISIS is made up of Arab supremacists who just today were said to be raping Yazidi women in order to end their gene strain of blonde hair and blue eyes: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2724658/Were-not-leaving-Yazidis-refusing-come-mountain-300-women-stolen-ISIS-impregnated-smash-blond-bloodline.html
Do you think Hussein gave a crap about any of that?