Is world better without Saddam?

[abaris]

I'm a bit appalled to see so many people forget who and what Saddam was.  All anyone is discussing is our embarrassing war.    Perhaps, going forward, we should leave people under their despots and tyrants, the world over, because we're afraid of embarrassing wars, because we worry that something bad might happen if we try to help people, we worry that if we get rid of one terrible cunt :gasp and shock:.........there may be more.

Clearly -all- of that is our fault, and the world and iraq would be a better place if we'd just left it all alone. lol.

No, it's not your fault. It's the fault of a certain ignorant clique, who led you there.

As for all of the above, you're talking as if the removal of these dictators was in any way, shape or form, an altruistic endeavor. It's just a cynical political move, sold and candy coated to the people at home, as freeing a certain people.

If it was altruistic, the Sauds would have been removed long ago. Nobody would buttkiss Erdogan or all the other abyssmal figures that are still good allies and friends of the West. That's not opportune and so all this talk about how bad Saddam was, is an entirely moot point. He hadn't been removed, if he had continued to play western ball as he did in the 80ies.

What remains is reality. Ugly, I know, but the wanring of what would happen if Saddam got removed, were there. And they were crystal clear for anyone having the slightest information on the ethnic as well as religious problems of the region called Iraq.