Comments by "Dennis" (@Dennis-nc3vw) on "Biographics" channel.

  1. Fun fact: Saddam said he intentionally acted like he had WMDs to scare Iran. Boy did that backfire.
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  2. When I think of the fact that Shaka Zulu's statues still stand in London and South Africa, even though he killed 2 million people to claim a slice of land the size of New Jersey, all I can imagine is ethnocentric black Marxists roasting in hell for their hypocrisy.
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  3. Right. The Iraq War was a mistake, but I will never ever fault my country or my leaders for assuming the world would have been better off without him.
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  4. It was not just "the West" who supported Saddam.
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  5. The CIA trained him to fight in a coup in his 20s. That was it.
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  6.  @gruweldaad  FINALLY someone besides me who was actually paying attention during the war.
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  7. Hitler killed about 30 million people.
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  8. When we do mind our own business people make movies like Hotel Rwanda calling us cowards.
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  9. Most Trump supporters hate him.
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  10.  @grants5554  No, when people say we steal oil they have no idea what they are talking about. It's just a fashionable talking point. The US military doesn't handle resource extraction.
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  11.  @kanaabijulius5416  Syria was in a Civil War for years before the US intervened and Libya was in the midst of populist uprising against a dictator who had shot protestors from fighter jets and pulled the plug on hospitalized dissidents. As for countries that were peaceful after America invaded? Germany, Japan, Italy, Grenada, and Panama.
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  12. A 15 year old boy who put off sex for 7 years. Wow.
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  13. America is only "The Butcher of the World" because we are the only country on Earth who gets blamed for the crimes of our mortal enemies. 87% of civilian deaths in Iraq were not caused by coalition forces (src: Iraq Body Count) and in Afghanistan 80% of civilian casualties were caused by the Taliban according to the UN. You probably also think America killed 3 million Vietnamese even though that's a war total in a war we didn't even start.
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  14. That's because Americans are the only people who can get blamed for the crimes of our our mortal enemies. Iraq Body Count showed 87% of civilians in Iraq were killed by the people Americans were in Iraq to kill and capture, not coalition forces.
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  15. Because Bush is blamed for the crimes of his mortal enemies while Saddam isn't. About 90% of civilians killed in Iraq were killed by "insurgents, militia, and terrorists" according to Iraq Body Count.
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  16. Afghanistan's population doubled during the 20 years the US was there, and a UN report showed 80% of civilians were killed by the Taliban. And don't blame Bush for something 85% - 90% of Americans supported at the time.
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  17. I'm sure saying that makes you feel like a bad ass who's sticking it to the man, but the vast majority of innocent Iraqis killed during the war were killed by the people you wanted Bush and Blair to appease and hand Iraq over to. Iraq Body Count shows 85%+ of civilians were not killed by coalition forces. They were killed by the people coalition forces were there to kill and capture, and no doubt a large reason insurgent factions wrought so much havoc on Iraq was because they knew people like you would blame their atrocities on their Western enemies. How else do you explain bizarre events like the July Soccer Bombings which seemed to target no one in particular and were just to "get attention"? I'll wait.
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  18. Our crime was not assuming we knew better than the Iraqis what was best for Iraq then. An April 2004 Gallup Poll showed 2/3rds of Iraqis felt the war was "worth it" to oust Saddam. It wasn't until sectarian violence kicked into high gear in mid-2006 that you can see Iraqi opinion start to change. Research it yourself.
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  19. 87% of civilians in Iraq were not killed by coalition forces. They were killed by the "freedom fighters" you were rooting for because they knew people like you would blame their atrocities on their American enemies.
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  20. Loved by everyone around the world? Give me a break. Even Iraqi blogger Raed Jarrar, who started blogging against the war as soon as Saddam fell, admitted most Iraqis were against Saddam.
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  21. Did the Assassins know the garden was on Earth or did they actually think they were in Paradise?
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  22. Even in the 1400s, waterboarding was the go to method for humane torture XD
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  23. 87% of civilians in Iraq who died during the war were not killed by coalition forces. America is the only power in the world that's ever blamed for the crimes of our mortal enemies.
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  24. Never ever forget that progressives and Europeans (but I repeat myself) hated this man with a black hearted fury that would make Satan weak in the knees when he was President, for no other reason than that he replaced the most brutal dictator of the 21st century with an elected government.
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  25.  @sampriktaganguli3052  Even if that's true, and I'm not saying it is, Britain occupied Indian for CENTURIES.
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  26.  @sjoncb  500 million people!? Jesus Herbert Walker Christ this comment thread is insane. Please, by all me, enlighten me where the living f*** you got that number from!
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  27. Wait, BOYS and maidens? 😳
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  28.  @thraitor7819  Because overthrowing the most brutal dictator of the 21st century so that people can elect their own government is so cold blooded.
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  29. Because the US is the only country on Earth that gets blamed for the crimes of its mortal enemies. 87% of civilians killed in Iraq were not killed by coalition forces according to Iraq Body Count.
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  30. 2-3 million is just a statistic you made up. Not to mention the overwhelming majority of civilians in Iraq were killed people Bush kept our troops there to kill and capture, and the Democrats wanted him to appease and hand Iraq over to.
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  31. Because Bush is blamed for the crimes of his mortal enemies while Saddam is not. 90% of Iraqi civilians were killed by the people Bush had our troops there to kill and capture, but you blame him because he "destabilized the region". Yet conveniently, the chain of causation ends there. You don't blame Saddam for what Bush did, even though America never would have invaded if not for his "pretend I have WMDs to scare Iran" roost. Isn't it interesting how it works? Americans can be blamed for crimes their mortal enemies committed based on indirect responsibility, but people like Saddam can't. How convenient.
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  32. Non-Iraqi Arabs loved him for sticking it to the West and Israel.
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  33. Imagine becoming the most hated man in human history because you overthrew the Kim Jung Un of the Middle East and let people elect their own government. Such an unbelievable world we live in.
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  34. He disappeared 10,000 people a year according to Human Rights Watch estimates and an April 2004 Gallup Poll showed more than 2/3rds of Iraqis thought the invasion was "worth it" to oust Saddam. It wasn't until sectarian violence kicked into high gear in 2006 that they started getting nostalgic and angry that Saddam was deposed.
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  35. 87% of civilians in Iraq were not killed by coalition forces according to Iraq Body Count. They were killed by our enemies, in large part because they knew people like you would blame America for those atrocities and give their acts propaganda value. How else do you explain events like The July Soccer Bombings?
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  36. Now that’s facial hair
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  37. 87% of civilians in Iraq were not killed by coalition forces (src: Iraq Body Count). They were killed by people who knew people like you would blame their Western enemies for their atrocities. You incentivized their senseless carnage.
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  38. True Americans are a dying breed. Bush was the last true American in office because he pissed of Nazis and Communists equally.
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  39. That's because Bush, unlike Saddam, gets blamed for the crimes of his enemies. The vast majority of Iraqi innocents were killed by insurgents, militia, and terrorists, (source; John Sloboda of Iraq Body Count, but anyone following the war closely knew this) the very people US forces were there to kill and capture. Funny how that works, isn't it? Saddam isn't responsible for the crimes of America, yet America is responsible for the crimes of the insurgents.
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  40. An April 2004 Gallup Poll showed Iraqis believed the invasion was "worth it" to overthrow Saddam. They only changed their tune around early 2006, when sectarian violence kicked into high gear (ie they started mass murdering each other).
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  41.  Ahmad Hijaz  Non-Iraqi Arab who never had to live under Saddam.
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  42. You need an iron, man, for that wrinkly ass skin. And that butt, butt, butt, butt, butt, butt chin!
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  43.  @RealSupaHotFireVEVO  I'm sure saying that makes you feel like a real badass who's sticking it to the man, but people in Panama, Kuwait, Grenada, Israel, South Korea, Hong Kong, etc. are pretty grateful for America's Presidents. Even Vietnam, supposedly Exhibit A in American brutality, is literally the most pro-American country on Earth today according to a Pew Research Center survey. Of course your evidence of America's evil is usually something like "America gave pocket change to Dictator X several decades ago so you are obviously the sole reason he's in power."
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  44. America is the only country on Earth that is blamed for the crimes of our mortal enemies. 85%+ of Iraqi Civilians, according to Iraq Body Count, were not killed by coalition forces. They were killed by the people we were there to kill and capture. Part of that was because people like you provided a perverse incentive for insurgent faction to wreak as much carnage as possible, by blaming their Western enemies for everything they did.
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  45.  @soundofshamash  Thank you for that deep, thought provoking, well researched rebuttal.
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  46. America gave him a whopping 1% of his arms.
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  47. There was no "occupation." Iraq was an independent democracy which allowed the US to stay until 2008 and then kicked us out in the 2008 SOFA. You might as well say the US is "occupying" Germany right now.
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  48. No, the CIA trained him to fight in a coup when he was in his 20s. That's it.
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  49. Because only Americans are blamed for the crimes of our mortal enemies "In total, over 150,000 people have been killed and 80 percent of them – more than 122,000 – were civilians, said the IBC. [...] According to a 2010 assessment by John Sloboda, director of Iraq Body Count, U.S. and Coalition forces had killed at least 22,668 insurgents as well as 13,807 civilians in the Iraq War, with the rest of the civilians killed by insurgents, militias, or terrorists."
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  50. Afghanistan: The population doubled during America's 20 year presence in the country. 80% of civilians were killed by the Taliban according to the UN. Syria: Syrian Civil War was waging for years before the US got involved. Libya: Libya was already in the midst of a popular uprising against a dictator who was shooting protestors from jets. If the US didn't intervene the country would have likely gone the way of Syria.
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