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Donald Trump’s praise of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein drew swift backlash from both parties.

“He killed terrorists. He did that so good,” Trump said at a rally in North Carolina on Tuesday night. “They didn’t read them the rights. They didn’t talk. They were terrorists. It was over.”

Hussein notoriously targeted political and sectarian enemies for assassination. He used poison gas to murder Iraqi Kurds, and he launched missiles at Israel. In his roughly 30-year reign, Hussein landed his country on the State Department’s list of state sponsors of terrorism before the U.S. invaded in 2003.

Hillary Clinton’s campaign quickly responded by calling Trump's praise of “brutal strongmen” dangerous. Senior Clinton aide Jake Sullivan cited several instances of Trump lauding violent regimes, including Chinese leaders during the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, Kim Jong-un’s isolated power in North Korea and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“Trump's cavalier compliments for brutal dictators … again demonstrate how dangerous he would be as commander-in-chief,” Sullivan said.

House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), who has repeatedly called out Trump for divisive comments, slammed his characterization of Hussein.

“[Hussein] was one of the 20th century’s most evil people,” Ryan said in a Fox News interview. “He committed mass genocide against his own people.”


https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-trailguide-updates-trump-s-misguided-praise-of-saddam-1467812095-htmlstory.html

 
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Bush  -  Saddam was evil

Trump - Saddam was good 

Confused and clueless GOP
 
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Not sure I disagree with Trump here.

What is worse, a dictator or this massive mess we created which will not be solved until the place is either nuked 50 feet down or another dictator comes in?

I dont see how anything outside an iron fist dictator can control religious groups fighting each other, it will never ever end.


 
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Sadam wasn't a crazy conservative religious theocrat Muslim either 
 
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Quote Originally Posted by ilsp2003:

Bush  -  Saddam was evil

Trump - Saddam was good 

Confused and clueless GOP

You see this....is just more intellectual dishonesty...and we could certainly use less of it.

Trump said Saddam was good at killing the terrorists and keeping them in check. Which is probably true because he had the people spying on each other.

Please stop posting garbage like this. It only gets the donkeys riled up like in post #4
 
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You see this....is just more intellectual dishonesty...and we could certainly use less of it.

Trump said Saddam was good at killing the terrorists and keeping them in check. Which is probably true because he had the people spying on each other.

Please stop posting garbage like this. It only gets the donkeys riled up like in post #4

You don't get it . what is intellectual dishonesty ? 
Saddam did not only kill terrorists 
Saddam killed anyone who opposed his brutal regime.
Saddam  used chemical gas against the Kurd.The attack killed between 3,200 and 5,000 people and injured 7,000 to 10,000 more, most of them civilians
 genocidal massacre against the Kurdish people in Iraq and the largest chemical weapons attack directed against a civilian-populated area in history.

Saddam was good at doing US and Saudi Arbia (Sunnin muslims) dirty work against Iran (Iraq -Iran war, control shia majority in Iraq).

The terrorist threat to America and the world will be diminished the moment that Saddam Hussein is disarmed.

GW Bush speech
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/mar/18/usa.iraq

So now Saddam was a terrorist who killed other terrorists
what terrorists did Saddam kill ?

Both Bush and Trump are wrong.

Saddam and the sunnis minority ruled Iraq with an iron fist.
For a long time, the majority Shia Muslims were discriminated by the Sunni-dominated regime.
Saddam would not mind killing other Sunnis  to maintain power. he did not care about religion
ISIS is comprised of Sunnis muslims (wahhabi doctrine) , who hate and kill  shia muslisms. The root of the hostility is a political question in itself: who is the legitimate successor to the Prophet Muhammed?

here is another informative read

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/middle-east/4-questions-ISIS-rebels-use-to-tell-Sunni-from-Shia/articleshow/37257563.cms

 
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Saddam is the Trump of this election - the lessor of 2 evils...

Without a doubt Saddam was evil but he could keep from bombs going off daily at the market...
 
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Saddam Hussein killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis.

So did George W. Bush, but his war of aggression destabilized the entire region.  They are not exactly better off, there have been plenty of atrocities by people not named Saddam Hussein, and we spent more than $2 trillion according to Reuters:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-war-anniversary-idUSBRE92D0PG20130314

American casualties as of 2016-06-29:

Killed - 4,424
Injures - 31,952, and I see way too many young men in wheelchairs boarding the buses.

No WMD's were ever found.  How exactly was that attack a good idea especially considering the dire consequences that clueless  Babushka evidently never foresaw - or worse - foresaw and just did not give a damn?
 
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Quote Originally Posted by ilsp2003:


You don't get it . what is intellectual dishonesty ? 
Saddam did not only kill terrorists 
Saddam killed anyone who opposed his brutal regime.
Saddam  used chemical gas against the Kurd.The attack killed between 3,200 and 5,000 people and injured 7,000 to 10,000 more, most of them civilians
 genocidal massacre against the Kurdish people in Iraq and the largest chemical weapons attack directed against a civilian-populated area in history.

Saddam was good at doing US and Saudi Arbia (Sunnin muslims) dirty work against Iran (Iraq -Iran war, control shia majority in Iraq).

The terrorist threat to America and the world will be diminished the moment that Saddam Hussein is disarmed.

GW Bush speech
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/mar/18/usa.iraq

So now Saddam was a terrorist who killed other terrorists
what terrorists did Saddam kill ?

Both Bush and Trump are wrong.

Saddam and the sunnis minority ruled Iraq with an iron fist.
For a long time, the majority Shia Muslims were discriminated by the Sunni-dominated regime.
Saddam would not mind killing other Sunnis  to maintain power. he did not care about religion
ISIS is comprised of Sunnis muslims (wahhabi doctrine) , who hate and kill  shia muslisms. The root of the hostility is a political question in itself: who is the legitimate successor to the Prophet Muhammed?

here is another informative read

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/middle-east/4-questions-ISIS-rebels-use-to-tell-Sunni-from-Shia/articleshow/37257563.cms


No shlt sherlock...you were still misrepresenting the context of what Trump was saying. 

We all know Saddam was a monster...you can't have it both ways...either celebrate that bush killed a brutal dictator at extraordinary cost or say you prefer saddam was still alive and killing hundreds of thousands. No doubt if Saddam was still alive you dumbalibs would be pretending he causes no problems.
 
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No shlt sherlock...you were still misrepresenting the context of what Trump was saying. 

We all know Saddam was a monster...you can't have it both ways...either celebrate that bush killed a brutal dictator at extraordinary cost or say you prefer saddam was still alive and killing hundreds of thousands. No doubt if Saddam was still alive you dumbalibs would be pretending he causes no problems.

I am not misinterpreting Trump's statement
Both Trump and Bush are clueless and wrong.

GWH Bush ( Bush 41 ) understood Iraq situation.
Saddam used chemical against civilians.

How many terrorists (AL-Qaeda ..etc) did Saddam kill ?

You have some issues and delusion of grandeur is not the only one. I have known about your GD or Delusion of grandeur condition a long time ago. Hardly a surprise

You can't debate without resorting to names calling. who is sherlock ?


 
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there were NO WMD, no Al Qaeda or ISIS either. The proto-ISIS group, Jam’at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad (TJ) led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, was born out of the Iraq war, as part of a coalition of Sunni resistance groups fighting the occupying forces. TJ changed its name on multiple occasions during its evolution to becoming ISIS. In late 2004, TJ officially joined Al-Qaeda, after Zarqawi pledged allegiance to Osama bin Laden, and became known as Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI). In 2006, AQI became the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI), which later became the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) when it branched into the Syrian civil war.

Sunni figthers are Saddam people ( now ISIS)

How was Saddam killing them ?

Saddam was terrorizing Iraq population and Iran during Iraq-Iran with U.S help.
 
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Omg don't bring in facts and history into the discussion...

You are clearly confusing the partisan lemming

At least he looks completely confused 

Typical bowslit 
 
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Quote Originally Posted by ilsp2003:

there were NO WMD, no Al Qaeda or ISIS either. The proto-ISIS group, Jam’at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad (TJ) led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, was born out of the Iraq war, as part of a coalition of Sunni resistance groups fighting the occupying forces. TJ changed its name on multiple occasions during its evolution to becoming ISIS. In late 2004, TJ officially joined Al-Qaeda, after Zarqawi pledged allegiance to Osama bin Laden, and became known as Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI). In 2006, AQI became the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI), which later became the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) when it branched into the Syrian civil war.

Sunni figthers are Saddam people ( now ISIS)

How was Saddam killing them ?

Saddam was terrorizing Iraq population and Iran during Iraq-Iran with U.S help.

I'm sure Trump was talking more in the terms of what killer b was saying. A terrorist doesn't have to wear an al quaeda uniform when he blows up the market to fit the definition.

I think Trump was talking about Saddams ability to keep the markets mostly free from explosions in comparison.

To say he was saying Saddam was a good man is disingenuous. And thats exactly what you did.
 
 
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