Quote Originally Posted by mrdevious
I never said the war was worth it, I'm 100% against this war and the death/injury/economic toll is waaaay too high. All I was responding to is when you said we can only hope to get another Saddam. Of course there are brutal dictators more worthy of deposing, just look at Kim Jon Il.
I was referring to the way he kept a secular control over the Mullas and kept the Iranians out and the sharia law at bay. We have now given Iraq to Iran, basically, and now there is no-one to control the Mullahs and the secular government is a thing of the past. This will end up a Muslim based country with Sharia law, the exact opposite of what was there and what Bush wanted, or, we'll be there for 10-20 years. Sadam was our biggest ally in the region. If Bushco could have realized that, we'd be much better off now and in the future. we had Sadam right where we wanted him, under our control and the region under control by him, was he tricky, well yeah, but we knew he had no WMDs and as long as he didn't gass anyone, things were cool. Yeah a few people were gettin raped and bumped off, thats what brutal dictators do. But we've killed somewhere between 100,000 and 800,000 Iraqis depending on who's figures you use, displaced a couple of million and made life a living hell for the remaining Iraqis, so in my estimation, Sadam was the lessor of the evils.