Is the world better off with out Saddam in power?

Question

Are the Iraqi people better off?

Please feel free to be candid

Please explain your answer a simple Yes just doesn't cut it.

Answer 1

yes. evil brutal dictator remember he was the bad guy how do i know bill Clinton said so and if he said it it must be true. i mean he wouldn't lie would he. as for the bleeding hearts with the 2700 souls would still be alive. boo ho. souls don't die if you believe in one and they were us soldiers brave men and women defending freedom don't belittle them with you pansy *** bleeding heart. we lost more then that in the first 24 hours of world war two.

Answer 2

the world? not really. tensions stemming from the iraq war have now spread further across the middle east. and i'm pretty sure there weren't 100 people a day dying from suicide bombs while he was in power. so i can't really say the iraqi people are better off either.
i think it's a stalemate. while saddam was a terrible person that oppressed and sometimes murdered his people now there is a powerless gov't that has no control over any aspect of the country it governs. and will not in the forseeable future.
iraq has traded one tragic situation for another. saddam would need to have been removed eventually. but the iraqis could have done that themselves with some real outside help. now the situation warrants complete and total dependency on the u.s. to prevent all out civil war.
better off? i think it's a pair to draw two from. but at least before there weren't thousands of dead americans as well.

Answer 3

Ah........He was a monster! OK i'll give you that.
Was getting him out of power worth all the lives that have been lost? Are the Iraqi people better of today then they were say 3 years ago? You really have to weigh the huge amount of deaths of the Iraqi people.. The Americans and colition forces.
The unstability in the world.
Is this better? NO

Answer 4

I would say no.

The war has proved that he had no weapons and was a threat to nobody. The U.N. resolutions and inspections did their job.

Although having Saddam gone is a nice benefit the thousands of American and Iraq lives that we have already lost and the many more that die every single day do not make us better off without him. I would prefer to give Iraq back to Saddam if I could trade it with getting back all of the lives that were lost.

Answer 5

No. We should put the scumbag back in power but on a very short leash. He was the only one who knew how to control those people. We let the genie out of the bottle by attacking Iraq and I think Saddam is the only one ruthless enough to put it back in. I think he's a monster but the Iraqi people will listen to him not as a monster but as someone to be feared and respected.

Answer 6

No,just look at what is happening in Iraq...An entire army can't control the Iraqis...Good or bad Saddam was the only one who could...And Saddam wasn't a threat to the world...He agree to let the UN inspectors search for WMD,witch didn't exist...

Answer 7

Saddam became the glue that held each little thing at the same time now Iraq is in a civil conflict between the Sunni and Shia jihadists. and at what a value. If we only would have paid him off for the conflict he had with Iran.

Answer 8

The world was just fine keeping Saddam In check and under control....he could still be the Big Fish in his own little pond, and we would have 2700 souls still alive, and the Iraqi's would not have lost 10000 humqan lives. As was proven by the lack of WMD, inspections would have never found what did not exist. Therefore, he was being a Big Fish, and we destroyed a country....Shame on us.

BRIAN S ! ! ! ! ! Welcome home brother...Vietnam Vet

Answer 9

well maybe not so much. maybe we would prefer saddam to iranian imams now that we see what our choice really were when we invaded. the iraqi people at least knew where they stood, bad as it must have been. my question to you is do you think we ever gave a rats backside about them or merely used there plight as a political fog in order to disorient the opposition's moral compass? only the kurds are better off so far. i hope jordan can take them in.

Answer 10

Yes, the world is better off without Sadam. The oly people who are screwed are the Iraqi people.

Answer 11

After all wars there is turmoil. Give the new democracy ten years and then we can really see if this war benefited the Iraqis and the world or if it's a major f***up!