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Originally Posted by Rochard
Saddam did do some wonderful things for Iraq.....
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How true
Much the same as Pinnochet, Hitler, Mussolini, Bush, Kim Jong-il et al have done for their respective countries.
He was also a wonderful friend of the US, a noted CIA helper, an effective assassin - killing members of other govts on behalf of the US. He even went to war for the US - Iran and Kuwait - tho the latter never got specific orders, only a nod, and that backfired - but hey, shit happens
Now that Saddam is gone, sadly, the US is left with a loose cannons rolling over the deck (or sand) in Iraq - in the form of an "Iraqi democratic government" who keep needing more money to employ private armies and death squads.
But hey... it's not all bad news. The "US Ambassador for Death Squads" (Negroponte) has been in the field in Iraq and established the picture and is now the "Director of National Intelligence", so chances are, he will monitor death squad budgets better - based on his extensive personal experience of death squads and killings in other nations.