Mandalore76 said:
So, it's your position that Saddam Hussein was not a brutal mass murderer who should have been ousted from power? "Iraq, today, 10 years on from the war, from the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, is not what the Iraqi people hoped for and expected. We hoped for an inclusive democracy, an Iraq that is at peace with itself and at peace with its neighbors," Salih said. "To be blunt, we are far from that." "But," he added, "it's important to understand where we started from. ... Literally hundreds of thousands of Iraqis were sent to mass graves. Ten years on from the demise of Saddam Hussein, we're still discovering mass graves across Iraq. And Iraqis are better off without Saddam Hussein—the overwhelming majority of Iraqis are better off without Saddam Hussein." - 2013 Barham Salih, the former prime minister of Iraqi Kurdistan's regional government and a former deputy prime minister of Iraq's federal government. |
the united states from what i remember last reading, caused the deaths of about 2 million civilian people in iraq... now i could be way off on that, but i remember reading that somewhere
secondly as i said, saddam was put in power with the support of the united states
thirdly since they lied about the initial motivation for attacking iraq why would i trust what they say about what he was like as a leader?
finally i've also read elsewhere that the true reason for the war in iraq was because saddam was orienting their financial system to be less dependent on and supportive of the united states financial system, which also was the case in lybia
you can dismiss without bothering to investigate it yourself and just go to trusting the people that lied to you about weapons of mass destruction blindly if you want, its your choice
