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Originally Posted by Dan02
Its interesting that the fact, 10s of thousands were killed every year under Saddams reign, has been forgotten. Or that he gassed his own ing citizens, started 2 wars which killed how many thousands??? The thing is no one reported every time Saddam lined up 50 people infront of the firing squads on CNN like every incident in Iraq gets reported now. Perhaps if every time someone was killed in Iraq before Saddam was removed was splattered all over western media we'd have a better guage of how bad the violence in Iraq actually is now compared to then, in reality we don't have a clue.
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Seems YOU don't have a clue. That whole train of thought is so lame. No one is defending Hussein, or the tyrant that he was. No one says that he was a nice guy. What people are saying is that things were better under him. The Iraqis say it, and prior to the invasion, the military was saying it too.
Now stow the BS about Hussein starting 2 wars and gassing his own people. The WORLD had the chance to take him out in 1991 and elected to leave him in power as a paper tiger. After Kuwait, more people died from sanctions than from Hussein's brutality. In fact, Hussein was kept in check in the decade after the Gulf War. As Anthony Zinni stated, repeatedly, prior to the invasion of Iraq, Iraq was contained and was no threat to anyone in the region. Its funny, but almost every government in the world saw this coming, including the Americans. They were just too damn stupid and drunk on power to heed their own advice from a few years earlier.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BEsZMvrq-I