Tell me about Saddam Hussein (pre-1991 of course). What did he do right? What did he do wrong?
a source on Saddam, with an out of the orthodox perspective, is As'ad Abukhalil a Lebanese sociologist in California. search his blog(using the search bar) for references to Saddam. Apparently Saddam was into secularism(gave hints of atheism) and for a time was warming up to Israel.
Also search his blog for atheism, Arab atheism and the history of it rarely gets mentioned in the west.
>>1191970
Right?
Spread the oil money just right.
Fought the Iranians.
Played the superpowers like a fiddle.
Put the Kurds in their place (literally).
Puts the Shi'i in their place.
Killed radical Sunni clerics.
Wrong?
Trust Bush Sr.
Invaded Kuwait
Stopped killing radical Sunni and Shia clerics.
Didn't just comply with UN and American demands.
I miss him so much.
>>1193663
Iraqis do as well
>>1193644
I always wonder why the Kurds are hated so much, of course they have a reason to be hated but why?
>>1195528
Kurds historically did not have a state. They just followed whoever was their liege lord, usually a Turkic cunt.
But like all ethnicities, they drank the nationalism pill and now demand a country.
>>1193644
>Didn't just comply with UN and American demands.
I was with you until this one. In 1991 he signed a conditional surrender so he could remain in power. Regardless of how one might like to categorize this as "demands", he signed it so they wouldn't nail his ass to a wall. It was a legally, binding agreement in international court and he intentionally broke several provisions of that agreement. This is why "but muh WMDs didn't exist" does not matter. He was an international criminal, to operate outside of that surrender agreement.
>>1191970
Somehow managed to keep Christians living in decent conditions, 85% of Assyrians have left since 2003.
>>1191970
He din du nuffin
>>1195528
tribalism
>>1195677
good riddance, all religions should go extinct.
>but muh dying language/culture/beliefs
who gives a shit, the sooner we reach an atheistic monolingual world the better.
>>1193677
No I don't
