Donald Trump Praises Saddam Hussein

[Gass3268]

From Tonight In Raleigh, North Carolina

Trump has a pretty good day going for him with the FBI announcement on Clinton's emails, but then he goes and puts his foot in his mouth.

Not The First Time Either

[Kevin]

From Tonight In Raleigh, North Carolina

Trump has a pretty good day going for him with the FBI announcement on Clinton's emails, but then he goes and puts his foot in his mouth.

Not The First Time Either

The sad thing is that he is right on this in some levels.

Saddam was pretty much the only thing holding Iraq together and Crooked Hillary voted to have him killed.

[pppolitics]

Saddam is good for Iraq.

When Saddam was around, there was no ISIS.

The sad thing is that he is right on this in some levels.

Saddam was pretty much the only thing holding Iraq together and Crooked Hillary voted to have him killed.

This

[Suburbia]

Saddam is good for Iraq.

When Saddam was around, there was no ISIS.

The sad thing is that he is right on this in some levels.

Saddam was pretty much the only thing holding Iraq together and Crooked Hillary voted to have him killed.

This

[dspNY]

So THIS is the Muslim the Donald praises...things that make you go hmmmm

Trump's infatuation with brutal dictators/strongmen is seriously insane

[Senator-elect Spark]

It was better with him in power, we have no business going over there and toppling dictators. It led to the creation of ISIS. Hillary did vote for the Iraq war after all.

[Kevin]

It was better with him in power, we have no business going over there and toppling dictators. It led to the creation of ISIS. Hillary did vote for the Iraq war after all.

Not to mention helping to carry out toppling of Gaddafi in Libya.

Sure Gaddafi was a sadistic and brutal dictator like Saddam but he also made it clear that he was giving up supporting terrorism and trying to obtain WMD's.

[psychprofessor]

Huh, what terrorists did Hussein kill? He gassed his own people for the most part...and tried to assassinate Poppy Bush. But Republicans, you're stuck with him until November.

[Intell]

He's Not Wrong...

[Mr. Morden]

Saddam was pretty much the only thing holding Iraq together...

I'm not sure he was holding much of anything together.  The status quo in Iraq was unsustainable, and presumably would have broken one way or another within ten years, even without a US invasion.  Though that's not to say that Saddam wouldn't still be holding onto a lot of territory today.  But you could have had a Syria-like civil war, with Saddam as leader of a rump Sunni state, battling against the Shiite and Kurdish regions, or something like that.

[Beet]

Stern: Are you for invading Iraq?

Trump: Yeah, I guess, so. I wish the first time it was done correctly.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/in-2002-donald-trump-said-he-supported-invading-iraq-on-the

[Seriously?]

Huh, what terrorists did Hussein kill? He gassed his own people for the most part...and tried to assassinate Poppy Bush. But Republicans, you're stuck with him until November.

I disagree with Trump on the Iraq War, but I know where he is coming from.

The whole Shia/Shiite Muslim civil war thing in Iraq didn't come to pass during Saddam Hussein's reign because he was such an utter dirtbag that he was murdering his own people at the first hint of insurrection.  To that extent, ISIS or really any dissent could not grow under in a Saddam Hussein Iraq.

Once Saddam was deposed, civil war broke out. Once Obama didn't leave a forward base of operations in Iraq, it left a vacuum where ISIS could flourish.

[psychprofessor]

Huh, what terrorists did Hussein kill? He gassed his own people for the most part...and tried to assassinate Poppy Bush. But Republicans, you're stuck with him until November.

I disagree with Trump on the Iraq War, but I know where he is coming from.

The whole Shia/Shiite Muslim civil war thing in Iraq didn't come to pass during Saddam Hussein's reign because he was such an utter dirtbag that he was murdering his own people at the first hint of insurrection.  To that extent, ISIS or really any dissent could not grow under in a Saddam Hussein Iraq.

Once Saddam was deposed, civil war broke out. Once Obama didn't leave a forward base of operations in Iraq, it left a vacuum where ISIS could flourish.

But tonight, Trump praised him for how great he was at "killing terrorists." He doesn't know that those "terrorists" were actually his own people. I just don't get Trump - why even find anything to praise about Saddam?

Further, we already know he was for the Iraq war before he was against it. He praises strong-men for acting tough - but just like with Putin, these people only act tough on their own. What does Trump find so appealing about Saddam and Putin...and for that matter, Kim Jong Un? It's just a very bizarre worldview in my opinion.

[Gass3268]

Not only were they his own people, in many cases they were are now Kurdish allies.

[Ebsy]

No, Trump is not right on any level.

[Mr. Morden]

The whole Shia/Shiite Muslim civil war thing in Iraq didn't come to pass during Saddam Hussein's reign because he was such an utter dirtbag that he was murdering his own people at the first hint of insurrection.  To that extent, ISIS or really any dissent could not grow under in a Saddam Hussein Iraq.

You do realize that Assad was murdering his own people when the protests started in Syria, and that didn't stop a civil war from breaking out?  Also, Saddam didn't even have control of the entirety of Iraq prior to the invasion.

[ProudModerate2]

It was better with him in power, we have no business going over there and toppling dictators. It led to the creation of ISIS. Hillary did vote for the Iraq war after all.

Not to mention helping to carry out toppling of Gaddafi in Libya.
Sure Gaddafi was a sadistic and brutal dictator like Saddam but he also made it clear that he was giving up supporting terrorism and trying to obtain WMD's.

I'm sure your statement is very comforting to the families of all 270 people who died because of Pan Am Flight 103 in Lockerbie.
In Kevin's words : (Gaddafi speaking) "I'm sorry we blew-up that airline and killed all your people, but we promise we will no longer support terrorism and obtain WMD's."

[Beet]

"They didn't read him the rights, they didn't talk, they were a terrorist it was over..."

Hey I agree, Donald Trump would make a great third world dictator.

[Seriously?]

The whole Shia/Shiite Muslim civil war thing in Iraq didn't come to pass during Saddam Hussein's reign because he was such an utter dirtbag that he was murdering his own people at the first hint of insurrection.  To that extent, ISIS or really any dissent could not grow under in a Saddam Hussein Iraq.

You do realize that Assad was murdering his own people when the protests started in Syria, and that didn't stop a civil war from breaking out?  Also, Saddam didn't even have control of the entirety of Iraq prior to the invasion.

With Assad, you're talking two different distinct periods in history.

As far as Saddam goes, he pretty much had the uneasy alliance of Shia/Shiite under control. But there's no denying that he was an evil despot.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

Doubtless TrumpMiller is already masturbating over plans to have a shark tank installed in the White House, so that he can personally torture criticsterrorists to death. (Probably as part of a nationally televised reality show.)

[Kevin]

It was better with him in power, we have no business going over there and toppling dictators. It led to the creation of ISIS. Hillary did vote for the Iraq war after all.

Not to mention helping to carry out toppling of Gaddafi in Libya.
Sure Gaddafi was a sadistic and brutal dictator like Saddam but he also made it clear that he was giving up supporting terrorism and trying to obtain WMD's.

I'm sure your statement is very comforting to the families of all 270 people who died because of Pan Am Flight 103 in Lockerbie.
In Kevin's words : (Gaddafi speaking) "I'm sorry we blew-up that airline and killed all your people, but we promise we will no longer support terrorism and obtain WMD's."

Like I said Gaddafi wasn't a good guy and Lockerbie is just one example of that.

However, thatt being said at the time we started bombing him in 2011 Gaddafi was NO LONGER supporting terrorism and WAS NOT trying to build WMD's.

[Deblano]

So THIS is the Muslim the Donald praises...things that make you go hmmmm

Trump's infatuation with brutal dictators/strongmen is seriously insane

Hey, Saddam didn't do nothing wrong.

He most certainly did not try to gas the Kurds in a Hitleresque agenda or anything like that. Just more anti-Saddam bias from Crooked Hillary

[Deblano]

Hmmm....the clapping seal chorus known as /r/The_Donald is silent on the news that their dear leader praised one of the worst, repressive leaders in the Middle East for dealing with terrorists without due process.

SAD!

[Ljube]

He's Not Wrong...

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Hillary's foreign policy gave us ISIS, plain and simple.