Saddam Hussein - Let's be honest, would Iraq have been better off if he had stayed?

[Demo_Chris]

12. Okay, but rather than listing who he was and what he did...

You can take a few minutes to look that stuff up for yourself if you actually want to understand. Instead I will simply invite you to consider and understand this one simple fact. Forget all the propoganda and Bush hate and everything else, because this is ALL you really need to know to understand just how sick and evil Hussein really was:

During the Iraq war we obliterated a beautiful and developed first world nation. We literally blew it to hell, killing perhaps a million or more civilians in the process and mutilating god knows how many others. We dropped JDAMs into residential neighborhoods by the hundreds, turning innocent people's homes and bodies into swiss cheese...

And the Iraqi people don't hate us, they don't want to attack us, they are not swearing eternal vengeance for their slaughtered families.

THAT's how evil Hussein was.

Now we can argue that it was wrong to invade, but that's another topic. I was opposed to the war then (amazingly there were damn sure few of us at that time) and remain opposed to it today. But suggesting that Iraq was better off under Hussein is freaking nuts.