Redpill me about this man. pic related

>>1476798
why not?

Instead of trying to build a secular nation worthy of the ideals of pan-arabism (which he supposedly championed) he ruthlessly seized power and encouraged ethnic conflict and division as a way to consolidate his grip on Iraq. Then on top of that he challenged the US and got fucked because of it.

Also gassed Kurds

Were the baathists truly secular in the western sense?

I'm having trouble finding a straight answer.

File: gg.png (219KB, 246x324px) Image search: [Google]

219KB, 246x324px

Alright what about this?

>>1476861
Alot of the former Ba'athists ended up teaming up with ISIS. Just like the old elite in Libya did the same.

>>1476795
He led a secular government and butchered jihadists.
Everything else he did was trash, but this alone was reason enough to keep him around.

File: SaddamSpiderHole.jpg (128KB, 640x480px) Image search: [Google]

128KB, 640x480px

>>1476795

With the fall of the Shah, Saddam became the most powerful leader in the Muslim world and thus was a threat to Israel, who manipulated Saddam into attacking Kuwait, (as they had earlier vs Iran) bringing down the wrath of the U.S. onto Iraq. When that didn’t finish the job, they got Dubya to invade Iraq on trumped up charges and turn the country into a perpetual war zone, taking the heat off Israel and flooding Europe with Muslim refugees, turning Europe into de facto allies against Islam.

>>1477092
>Saddam became the most powerful leader in the Muslim world

Iraq was by no means the most powerful state. This is absolute nonsense.
For one, Turkey exist. And second, Iran was stronger, it beat Iraq even during its lowest point just after the revolution.

>>1476795

Psychopathic kleptocrat. It says a lot about how poorly executed operation Iraqi Freedom was that things actually got WORSE after his death.

File: 111.jpg (12KB, 258x245px) Image search: [Google]

12KB, 258x245px

>>1477145
>americans still cling to the well-meaning incompetent empire myth