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>>1346432
He should've allied with Iran against the west tbqh pham

I always liked Saddam. Dunno why

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>>1346454
Up until 1991, so did we.

He was a despot who suppressed and carried out pogroms against minority groups (i.e. Kurds) and receives a lot of praise from Arab retards as well as Westerners with an incredibly shallow understanding of his actions in that region

Him and many other middle eastern leaders were stalinboos. He read about stalin a ton when he was a child, and he applied it to his horrible life.

>>1346464
Sorta. He nationalized oil, the madman. But he also didnt dwfault on debt. He was a very interesting man.

We could have kept him alive if we wanted. If we worked more closely with the region, we may have even created a peaceful annexation of kuwait.

We wanted him dead though. Not so much just because he commited genocide and used chem wrapons, but because we wanted to show we could destroy a small country very easilly.

>>1346452
"Fucking Persians."
- Sadam

>>1346464

it seems like every time a major leader in the Arab world dies, his replacement is several magnitudes of order worse

When will Iraq be free from US rule?

He's literally the Hitler of the ME, as was anyone else who assumed power through Baathism.

>>1346452
Saddam cultivated an elite in the military and government that was mostly Sunni. He used the ethnic divisions of Iraq to his advantage. The same as the Iranians did but they were on opposite sides.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vscmxyoXpCE

>>1346452
I bet it was him trying to do that which prompted the US invasion.

THE ABSOLUTE MADMAN

>based

>>1346432
I crie erry tiem

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Erry tiem