Trump praises Saddam Hussein's efficient killing of 'terrorists,'

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(07-07-2016, 01:51 PM)bfine32 Wrote: I guess that the sentiment that Iraq was better off with Saddam depends entirely on who you are. We simply over-threw him about 13 years too late.

Depends on what time you're talking about. The Iran-Iraq War was a pretty horrible time for both those countries. But leading up to  the First Gulf War and after, except for the Kurds, it was more a stable place. You didn't have this level of sectarian violence. You didn't have millions of people homeless as terrorists take over or destroy towns. You had political abuses, but not the level of corruption there is now. I've seen estimates that the number of government "employees" grew anywhere from 5-20%... even though many of those aren't people, they're just bank accounts collecting paychecks.