Your missing the point. If you would have read my question you would've noticed that I said treat the people in HIS OWN country. It had nothing to do with the rest of the world. I STILL want someone to explain to me how someone can treat the people in his own country any worse than what Saddam did.
Saddam demonstrated in 1990 that his ambitions lay beyond his own borders. It was US enforcement of UN policy that prevented his expansion. Only God knows how many of those 400,000 to 750,000 might have lived had someone got tough with Hitler before 1938.
Who is holding a gun to your head to read this thread? I'm sure there is a thread out there that is short and simple enough for you. If you have nothing meaningful to add to the conversation, why be rude to those who do?
Saddam was a bad dictator, but in the grand scheme of things he wasn't all that bad. Any number of African dictators make Saddam look like the Easter Bunny. Pol Pot killed upwards of 2 million Cambodians. Idi Amin's regime was responsible for at least 500,000 deaths and likely more than 1 million. Stalin executed or exiled millions. Charles Taylor encouraged his military to rape men and women to instill fear.
I would disagree with most here. Saddam was just as bad as any other dictator. If you were a Shiate in Iraq would have a different perspective. I'll say that you really couldn't have a worse dictator in Iraq for the record. Saddam used chemical weapons, tortured, raped the country and its people.
He doesn't even make the top 10 in Genocides of the last 100 years, SDM. He's tied with Idi Amin, Agha Khan, and Benito Mussolini for #15. Mao Ze-Dong (China, 1958--69, Tibet 1949-50) 49,000,000 Jozef Stalin (USSR, 1932-39) 12,000,000 (the purges plus Ukraine's famine) Adolf Hitler (Germany, 1939-1945) 8,000,000 (concentration camps) Hideki Tojo (Japan, 1941-44) 2,000,000 (Chinese civilians) Ismail Enver (Turkey, 1915) 2,100,000 Armenians, Kurds, Anatolian Greek, and Assyrian Turks) Pol Pot (Cambodia, 1975-79) 1,700,000 Kim Il Sung (North Korea, 1948-94) 1,600,000 (purges and concentration camps) Menghistu (Ethiopia, 1975-78) 1,500,000 Yakubu Gowon (Biafra, 1967-1970) 1,000,000 Jean Kambanda (Rwanda, 1994) 800,000 Suharto (East Timor, West Papua,1966-98) 800,000 Tito (Yugoslavia, 1945-1987) 570,000 Yahya Khan (Pakistan, 1971) vs Bangladesh 500,000 Savimbi (Angola, 1975-2002) 400,000 Idi Amin (Uganda, 1969-1979) 300,000 Agha Khan (Bangladesh, 1970-1971) 300,000 Benito Mussolini (Ethiopia, 1936; Yugoslavia, WWII) 300,000 Saddam Hussein (Kurdistan 1987-88) 300,000
