I guess we can summarize it best like this.
Iraq + Saddam + Bush1 + Clinton = GOOD
Iraq - Saddam + Bush2 + Obama = BAD
Iraq was better off under Saddam
Re: Iraq was better off under Saddam
by Philly » Thu Aug 07, 2014 9:53 am
go ahead. keep screaming "Shut The f**k Up " at me. it only makes my opinions Worse
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Re: Iraq was better off under Saddam
by Philly » Thu Aug 07, 2014 10:11 am
go ahead. keep screaming "Shut The f**k Up " at me. it only makes my opinions Worse
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Re: Iraq was better off under Saddam
by The Comrade » Thu Aug 07, 2014 10:16 am
Are we ignoring halabja?
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Re: Iraq was better off under Saddam
by Lobster » Thu Aug 07, 2014 10:22 am
Iraq was undoubtedly in a better situation under Saddam, but "secular", and with religious and ethnic "minorities" protected? Really? I'm fairly certain the (majority) shia were a vast underclass and, at best, second class citizens. And that the kurds were equally subject to many, many pogroms and government led ethnic cleansings. So the power was concentrated and held uniquely by sunni arabs, distributed according to tribal and family bloodlines. It was secular in name only.
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Re: Iraq was better off under Saddam
by Spider » Thu Aug 07, 2014 10:25 am
Well over 5500 dead so far.
Its a few hundred miles too far to the East, though, so nobody is going to give a shit.
Its a few hundred miles too far to the East, though, so nobody is going to give a shit.
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Re: Iraq was better off under Saddam
by Lobster » Thu Aug 07, 2014 10:34 am
Granted, despite all the failings of baathist ideology in practice, I still think the pan-arab nationalists were better in every way to the current crop of islamist fanatics. Even moreso on paper.
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