How is Saddam really any different from any other ME dictator?

[Rocknrule]

Other than the fact that for some reason he's a household name over here

Is he really worse than the other rulers over there? If not, how could anyone justify invading Iraq and not just continuing to look for Osama?

[0007]

1. The big difference is that the US installed Saddam and supplied

Iraq with the wherewithal to commit murder with the US consent.

[muntrv]

2. Women in Iraq had more freedoms than in other Middle Eastern nations.

Women could actually get educated and have jobs. Saddham was NOT an Islamofacist.

[Jax]

3. Thought he hated bin laden as well

thought bin laden wanted Saddam out of power. bin laden's pal b*sh certainly does his bidding....

[hlthe2b]

4. He offended and embarrassed the idiot child emperor of the US

and called into question his and his Daddy's "manliness." That is the difference...:eyes:

[applegrove]

5. He gassed villages and killed children that way. He ethnic cleansed

about 2 Million Shities by draining their farmland. He tortured, & murdered hundreds of thousands. He was a monster pure and simple.

[malaise]

12. Who was his accomplice?

Who gave him those chemicals?

[majorjohn]

13. True

fully agree with what you said about Saddam, but that was not the reason Iraq was invaded.

[Cleita]

6. He's the one who tried to kill Bush's daddy, earning the

eternal wrath of the son. The PNAC wanted to invade Iraq, Iran and Syria for a PAX Americana. When the PNAC found Bush so willing for revenge on Saddam, it was the perfect marriage for them to fulfill their plans starting with the invasion of Iraq.

[Bad Penny]

7. He had lots of oil

[Cleita]

8. That too!n/t

[unblock]

9. ding ding ding ding ding!

99.44% of all american politics vis-a-vis the middle east has to do with oil.

[Bad Penny]

10. starting to shape up that way in South America too

[majorjohn]

11. Interesting question

Regardless of what the middle east rulers are like, which I'm sure many of them are corrupt, below you'll find an explanation of why we got rid of Saddam.

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Brief analysis of Middle Eastern countries:

Big Oil producers:

- Saudi, Kuwait, etc... = puppet governments = allies

meaning: the US already has unlimited access to their oil = no problem


Small or no oil producers are not important.


Further info:

Saddam as a puppet = ally

later her decided to cut off his strings = need to invade

Iran not a puppet = need to invade
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That's all you need to know about the Middle East

[leesa]

14. It was the weakest oil nation we could invade

Spinning the propaganda was easy. Bush 1 promising the Shiites he would provide back-up if they overthrew Saddam after GW1 and then bailing out provided the "mass graves" to get hysterical about. And the Iranian gassing of the Kurds could easily be blamed on Saddam because they were both using gas during their war. As easy as throwing babies out of incubators.