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29. Saddam Hussein was a brutal, genocidal dictator

Sat Jan 2, 2016, 10:17 AM

Jan 2016

The Saudi leadership is pretty damn awful as well.

I do agree with you that the US can shine a light on the atrocities it wishes to focus on and ignore others - which is very hypocritical.

Our "partnership" with Saudi Arabia definitely has an ugly side to it, to say the least.

But that is part of the whole argument (which seems to be popular these days) - how it's better to work with relatively stable dictators than deal with what might happen should those dictators be deposed.

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