Unlike Bush, did Saddam know how to manage Iraq better?

Question

Yes, I am glad that Saddam, as a bad dictator is gone. However, I have been wondering about the following facts:
1. Saddam managed to keep terrorists, especially Bin Laden's network away from Iraq prior to 9/11?...but why?
2. Saddam managed to keep Kurds, Shiats and Sunnis from fighting each other?...but why?
3. Bush lost control of Iraq completely (whether he admits or not) , managed to initiate hatred among Iraqis and subsequently a civil war?..but why?

I am not convinced, but our government is doing the same thing in Iraq; torturing, destroying homes, killing innocent Iraqis, playing favorites and supportin a fanatic Shiat Muslim, pro terrorists. Bush is still loosing control of Iraq.

Answer 1

Saddam did actually manage Iraq much better than GWB currently is. sure, it's a given that Saddam Hussein has a bad rep for destroying his opposers in his own country. But at least he kept his people much more content day by day than the people of Iraq are right now. He did manage to keep out terrorists, and he was not threatening the U.S or other nations as Bush has insisted. Iraqis, nowadays, have far less amenities and many have practically nomadic lives. It's really a shame. Point is, Bush knows the so-called "war on terror" is not being won, and Iraq is really messed up now. In truth, Saddam did a much better job in maintaining the security of his people.

Answer 2

Yes, Saddam did a better job at CONTROLLING his land & the people who lived there. I think America went in the BACK DOOR in order to flush out the terrorists, & found out that they actually went into the SIDE DOOR that they didn't see on their maps! This whole thing has turned into a big mess & now we see things more clearly for what they really are. In a DEMOCRATIC Society we are allowed to express feelings & thoughts against the terrorists, but if we don't start to get tough like Saddam, these animals will take over the world zoo.

Answer 3

1, Saddam not only did not keep al Qaida away, he helped them with their training bases, and paid a $25K 'bounty' to the families of suicide bombers.
2. He did not keep the Kurds, Shiia and Sunnis from fighting each other. Saddam's government was almost exclusively Sunnis, and they murdered thousands, or hundreds of thousands of Shiia and Kurds, and used poison gas to accomplish that.
3. The hatreds are religiously inspired; hatred and killing seems to be the main theme of middle-eastern Islam (where each prayer seems to end with 'Death to .. someone', and the Shiia majority in Iran sends emissaries of hate to make sure the violence in Iraq continues.
Bush didn't start a civil war, it's been going on for at least fifty years. Perhaps the only rational solution is to partition the 'country' of Iraq.

Answer 4

1) Saddam did not manage to keep terrorists out. al Zarqawi was from Iraq before 9/11.

2) By gassing the kurds and ruling like a tyrant.

3) Because he won't commit enough troops to do an effective job.

Answer 5

well if master chief is to be believed then one could say that saddam used fear against those who might or might not have created fear in the country and as for his methods then what the hell else is going to work because what we're attempting is not working and if the methods he used were working then who the hell are we to interfier with how one ruler rules over his own people what alot of people seem to forget is that the cia put saddam in place of power and then walked away and we new his methods then being a minority faction it seemed he showed some restain in not enslaving the majority and as far as mass murder is concerned well its wrong but why were they massacred and if they were involved in a plot to depose him then he was right in doing so

Answer 6

Have you ever fought and tried to organize a country against guerrilla warfare? It isn't easy. President Bush is facing the same problems that we have experienced in Vietnam.
Saddam was a murderer of his own people. He sat on all the money while his people starved to death. He killed anyone who said anything against him including family members.
Saddam was not a leader but a dictator. He didn't manage the country. He held the people in it under his thumb and squashed them like bugs.

Answer 7

Well Saddam used to throw people into acid baths, gas the kurds, take people in the middle of the night interrogate them and murder them thats WHY!

Answer 8

You do understand who Bush's vice chairman grew to become into, do no longer you? If Bush have been impeached, Dick Cheney could have become President of the USA. no person, no longer even Cheney's mom wanted that to happen.

Answer 9

Saddam kept a much better order in Iraq, but that was because he was prone to caarring out massacres; people living in fear tend to be timid.

Answer 10

Through heavy handed fear....seems to be the ONLY thing that was preventing civil war.