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Yes, he was cementing his position as the next leader of Iraq.Skyhunter said:July 16, 1979 he officially took over. However President Bakr was weak (sound like any current president you know?) and Saddam was the real power in the Baath party from 1975.
Why would you say that Saddam is not as bad as we have heard and then say you don't want to argue it?Skyhunter said:Like I said I don't want argue this point because he was a ruthless dictator who committed crimes against humanity. He was especially brutal to the Shia and Kurds. What he did to the wetlands in the Tigris Euphrates valley was unconscionable.
Not just US policies. Several countries have exploited and abused Iraq.Skyhunter said:My point however is that the Iraqi people have suffered, and are suffering now because of US policies toward Iraq these past 15 years. I never said he was good for Iraq, I was just saying that as the horrors of the past fade, and stories are retold, the Iraqi people may begin to yearn for the old days when they had food, water, and electricity.
Also there are plenty of people in this country that yearn for the old days when blacks and women had no rights. There's even, supposedly, a movement for an all out race war. Does that mean it was the wrong thing to do to give these people their rights? Does that mean that our country is any worse off now just because some people liked it better the way it was?