Would Iraq have been better off with Saddam still in control?

Answer 1

Saddam kept the peace and since the early 1990's, he'd let up on the mass slaughters. There was a rule of law, and people could usually figure out how not to run afoul of it. For example, a person could figure that he might be jailed and even killed if he printed a newsletter critical of Saddam.

Women attended university and had equal legal rights because this was a secular government. The streets were very safe because Saddam ran a police state.

Now however, fathers go to bed at night and do not know whether they will wake up to breakfast in their homes or to a death squad drilling holes in their heads and amputating their limbs. Children disappear forever on the way to school and mothers dodge explosions on the way to the market. Women wear black robes and scarves to avoid rape or beatings by the Shiite moral police.

Here's one benefit: since Saddam was removed Iraqis have gotten cell phones. But what do they use them for? To set off IEDs, gather their militias for a fight, and to call family members to see if they are still alive.

Answer 2

I believe so. Khofi Annan (sp?) said something to that effect a few days ago. Saddam may have been a brutal dictator but he was better at keeping control. There wasn't the chaos under him that there is now. Sunnis and Shia could send there kids to school without worrying whether they would come back.

Answer 3

It would be better off only in that the insurgent problem wouldn't exist; Saddam wasn't constrained by political correctness and a embedded media.
Better off no, just different.

Answer 4

For Iraq yes, for Republicans, no. Iraq will have a hard time restructuring their country after this. There will always be mental scars an hatred towards Americans.

Answer 5

Right you are Ken. This is a tough question, I am not sure if Iraq would be better off, but the U.S. certainly would. 655,000 Iraqi deaths since the illegal invasion of Iraq maybe the Iraqi would be also.

Answer 6

There would not have been the deaths of hundreds of thiusands of innocent Iraqi civilians, no rape and murder of young Iraqi girls, no torture/abuse/humiliation of Iraqi prisoners in US prisons and no terrorism in Iraq. Bush claims his donation of democracy to Iraq is worth all this (and more).

Answer 7

Except for the slaughter of thousands, rape of young girls, and the starvation of thousands of children because of the Corrupt UN , Saddam, France, and Russia working together to divide up the oil money for food.
And the poison gassing of thousands of Kurds.
CLINTON DIDN'T CARE. He was too busy playing and having fun games.

Answer 8

Maybe with Saddam and Bush. Really no difference between the 2 of them.

Answer 9

Perhaps for a short time,slightly, but over the longer haul, doubtful, unless we "cut and run."

Answer 10

Ask the Shia & Kurds.