Would you personally want to live under the rule of Saddam?
If you say no, why do you think the Iraqi people would?
2006-10-13 16:22:34 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Wow, I'm getting some pretty defensive answers. I thought I had asked 2 simple yes or no questions, but I am getting answers like, "its none of our business". What does that have to do with my question?
2006-10-13 16:29:56 · update #1
oh,, so if the people wanted to change the rule, they would have done so? So, why don't the prisoners in a prison change the head of the prisons?
2006-10-13 16:44:19 · update #2
Just because one declares another's form of government unfavorable doesn't mean you one's opinion reflects that of others. That is the fallacy of your logic.
Also, Saddam enjoyed anywhere from a 39-52% popularity rate within his country according to Israeli Defense. The same popularity rate Bush has had this year.
2006-10-13 16:34:04 · answer #1 · answered by rian 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Humbug. This is not an either/or situation, whatever the half-wit so called "conservatives" in the USA call it.
If Iraqis were so pleased to see the end of Saddam H. how come they want the Americans and their allies the hell out of their country so they can settle a few scores among themselves? A few years after the US and it's allies finally leave Iraq the country will be under one dictator or another who will start by mouthing a few democratic platitudes. I'd put a hundred dollars on that. He will probably be Shia. He will probably be radically Islamic. By comparison, Iran as it is today will look like a haven of enlightenment.
Would you have wanted to live under the rule of the Argentine colonels before the Falklands war in 1983? The victims of that bunch of military thugs ended up just as dead and just as tortured as the victims of Saddam. But they were anti-Communist, weren't they? Therefore the people they murdered and tortured must have been all Communists, mustn't they? Even the wives, husbands, sisters and brothers who got killed because they had the temerity to ask what had happened to their relatives one time too often must have been Communists too, and therefore deserved to die as well. We rarely heard a peep out of the USA about the less desirable activities of their friends in the government of Argentina.
2006-10-13 16:41:09 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
What most people cannot seem to grasp is that the problem we are facing in Iraq is due to the fact that it is not a real country. Its borders were draw arbitrarily (arbitrarily, get it?) by the British almost 100 years ago and they had a terrible time with it then. The people who make up the area of Iraq really should not all be in the same country, but thanks to British colonialism, here we are. There can never be peace in Iraq the way the US wants to structure it, and we are seeing the results of that now. The killing and bombing will continue without end. There was a reason why Saddam Hussein had so many mass graves, and that was to keep these different sects in line. Now these people are killing themselves instead of having Saddam Hussein around to kill them instead. Either way, in order to keep Iraq as a coherent country as it is now, the killing must continue. It's not a question of having things better without Hussein; the killing will go on regardless. The only difference is who is doing the killing.
The only hope to subdue the violence is to split Iraq up into three parts. The Soviet Union and Yugoslavia split up for the same reason; they were made up of ethnically diverse parts that could not live together.
2006-10-13 16:39:20 · answer #3 · answered by Kokopelli 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The current estimate is that 655,000 people have died in Iraq since the beginning of the war there. Most of those people were innocent civilians.
I am conservative. I hate Bush and we have no business in Iraq. We are fighting in Iraq because of Israel and Oil.
...and as for your question, I bet if you surveyed the Iraqi people if they'd rather go back in time to before the attack when Saddam was in power, 80% would say yes.
If you really are a conservative and love the US you should educate yourself about who Bush and his handlers really are. It's not only liberals who want the US out of the war. The people who are most concerned with America's best interests want us out of that mess.
...the people who are most concerned with Israel and oil are happy that we're over there. Typical morons who are brainwashed to believe the Republican/Democrat bickering also buy into the whole "cut'n'run" or "spreading freedom" BS mantras.
Remember Bush, Kerry, Gore and Clinton would have ALL done the same thing. Republicans and Democrats all voted in favor of this pathetic war. Wanna know why? Look this up: AIPAC.
...while you're at it, read about the USS Liberty. I'm sure you've never heard of it.
2006-10-13 16:32:39 · answer #4 · answered by Elvis W 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If I was an Iraqi I would rather live under Saddam than in the present state of affairs in Iraq, expecially if I was one of the tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands killed as a result of the war.
2006-10-13 16:42:50 · answer #5 · answered by rec 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My answer is no. I feel than change should come from within. The people of Iraq would have changed their leadership if they wanted to. They were comfortable living under Saddams rule, or they would have overthrown him a long time ago.
2006-10-13 16:35:21 · answer #6 · answered by jack jr 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, I would not live under Saddam's rule- and I don't. If you don't want to - then they need to leave. They stay, then they choose.
I am not anti war. I am against a war that is for the wrong reasons. We were supposed to be justifying 9/11. We are in the wrong country and trying to liberate them (not our problem). If we want to help a country that can not help itself we should be in Darfur. We are in Iraq for the wrong reasons. Don't tell me its because of terrorism....there is terrorism everywhere. We needed to get Bin Laden for his crimes and we didn't and won't. This war is WRONG
Also, Saddams popularity in his country is higher than Bush's in this country.
2006-10-13 16:38:42 · answer #7 · answered by MrsMike 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't...but people often have the government they deserve. The Iraqis could have risen against Saddam anytime in the past 10 years and IED's his regime into the ground. They did not choose to do so....no they have decided to kill young Americans who are only there to help them.
These people need to bleed for their own country. Because frankly, their country isn't worth a drop of American blood.
2006-10-13 16:33:49 · answer #8 · answered by KERMIT M 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-04 19:39:51 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I personally would not. However, the people of Iraq lived in Utopia under Saddam compared to what it is like now under US occupation.
2006-10-13 17:00:36 · answer #10 · answered by ? 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋