Comments by "Dennis" (@Dennis-nc3vw) on "The BRUTAL Rise \u0026 Fall of Saddam Hussein" video.

  1. I think Pol Pot should take Idi Amin or Saddam's place.
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  2.  @kingtachalla6181  Carbombings, kidnapping, and "outside forces having a huge influence over the government" wasn't 'US treatment'. It was all things the people American soldiers were there to kill and capture were doing.
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  3.  @rehanpatel9797  The problem is the same people who say that sort of things are the ones who vilify America for giving pocket change to dictators, even when we're only doing so to use them as proxies against other tyrants (not democracy).
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  4. The Iraqi Government actually turned Abu Ghraib into a torture museum. Here's the plot twist: there's no exhibit about what the Americans did because they thought it would have looked so petty compared to what happened there when Saddam was in power.
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  5. Do you even believe what you said? How did ISIS in any way help us "loot" Iraq? Even you don't know what you mean by that.
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  6. Chaos doesn't benefit greedy corporations. Oil pipelines and highways blowing up is bad for business. I'm pained by the results of our invasion, but it also makes me furious, because I was following the war close enough to show how full of shit the Iraqis are. They HATED Saddam and wanted this. You can see that in the polling data. You can see that if you use The Wayback Machine and find a certain site called "Iraqi Bloggers Central". Yet they can't just own up like Americans and say "We thought Iraq would be a better place without Saddam. We were wrong. I'm so sorry now." Instead they pretend like we forced our will on them and they always loved him. What was our crime, really? Not knowing what was best for Iraq better than the Iraqis. That's it. It doesn't matter if it was "for oil". If a doctor does something he reasonably thinks will save your life, he hasn't committed a crime, even if he was just in it for the paycheck.
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  7.  @survivaltipsandtricks4042  No, we know no such thing. America could have simply put Iraq under another strongman autocrat but instead we let the Iraqis elect their own government, even if it meant them electing Sadrists into parliament and forbidding us from keeping any permanent bases in the country in the 2008 SOFA. Governments are made of human beings. Human beings are motivated by all sorts of things. It's not logical to assume all wars are only about money, no matter how much of a cynical badass saying so makes one feel like.
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  8. Saddam disappeared an estimated 10,000 people a year according to Human Rights Watch. No matter how bad a mistake the war was, I'll never blame my government for thinking the world would be better off without him. That's what the Iraqis themselves believed. An April 2004 Gallup poll showed they thought overthrowing Saddam was "worth it" for ousting Saddam by a margin of 2 to 1. Now history is being distorted. People are growing up believing Saddam was some kind of beloved leader.
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  9.  @TWE_2000  "And yet is Saddam not in great part to blame for what came after." Isn't that convenient? America is blamed for every death inflicted by the terrorists we were trying to kill and capture, on the basis that we brought them there with our war. But Saddam Hussein isn't blamed for America's crimes, even though his dumb little "let me pretend I have WMDs to scare Iran" roost brought Americans to Iraq. Funny how that works.
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  10.  @Rowid04  An April 2004 Gallup poll showed Iraqis believed overthrowing Saddam was "worth it" by a margin of 2 to 1. So whether you are grateful or not, it's what you wanted. Of course now everyone is trying to distort history and pretend that was never true.
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  11. Because only Americans are blamed for the crimes of our mortal enemies. The vast majority of Iraqis were killed by terrorists. Funny how that works, huh? America can be blamed for the crimes of the terrorists we were in Iraq to kill and capture, on the basis it's our fault because we brought them there with our war, but Saddam can't be held responsible for the crimes of America, even though his stupid "pretend I have WMDs to scare Iran" roost brought Americans to Iraq.
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  12. He disappeared 10,000 people a year.
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  13.  @Athenaa13  He's probably a non-Iraqi Arab. They loved Saddam for pissing off the West, with the added bonus of never having to live under him.
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  14. Saddam was far more vilified before the war.
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  15. THANK YOU! Whether the war was a mistake or not, it's so nice to see an Iraqi own up to the truth: most of you hated Saddam and wanted him gone.
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  16. You mean America giving him 1% of his weapons and training him to fight in a coup when he was in his twenties (decades before he came to power)?
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