Originally Posted by jerkules

Just on the headline alone - rump: We?d be better off if Hussein and Gadhafi were still in power - Trump is hardly wrong. Someone in Saudi Arabia got #$%$ off at Saddam Hussein, probably because of some oil money lost, and the Saudis called in their buddy "W" to spend millions of U.S. dollars, partially funded by Saudi Arabia I read somewhere recently...and Bush attacked Iraq when he should have attacked Iran...created the disaster that is Iraq followed up by Obama and the vacuum created and then filled by ISIL. That's the story folks...don't matter whether you are a Dem or a Repub...that's the simplicity of the oil business. 4000 + American soldiers dead. Quaddafi might be another story, but having a dictator in power, at least we know where we stand. Right now, we have turmoil in and around Iraq and Libya, with thousands of refugees, all because of oil and attacking the wrong country. There are good dictators and bad dictators. Hussein controlled his country and there was no vacuum because he treated everyone the same, except for those in Tikrit. Qaddafi, the same. And there were no major problems, except maybe profit-taking by U.S. oil companies was difficult to do. 4000 + American soldiers dead.