Why do Americans hate Saddam Hussein?

Question

This confuses me, in reality Saddam didn't do anything to the Americans, so why do so many of them seem to hate him? Odd isn't it. Personally, I neither like nor dislike him. The IRA, I do hate because they destroyed my home city of Manchester in 1996. As the Americans funded the IRA I hate them, but not Saddam because he didn't do anything to me.

Beggars belief, I can not believe that you people think Saddam had anything to do with terrorists, it just goes to show how truly brainwashed you people are. Very sad.

Answer 1

im with you on this one.....i dont really understand what Saddam did, but the IRA are very easy to understand...I also live near Manchester and saw the devastation...and that is the reason , like yourself, that I think the Americans have a lot to answer for.

Answer 2

Go ManU (or are you a city supporter?) Anyway Sorry about the IRA Bombing, Most Americans are pretty ignorant when it comes to Irish Anglo History. They see St Paddy and Green beer and Make donations to Tin Cans without regard to the destination. Something Like 40-65 million Americans claim some sort of Irish Decent, Kind of a problem since most were sent here by problems at home. Left unchecked they did breed!!! (not trying to be rude, there are around 4-5 million Irish in Ireland). Saddam Was not hated in the true sense of the word. If he did not have WMD's too bad as He said he did. He sttod on that very ground even with the US build up. I do not know if it was a case of Bravado or senality as some claim but he did say he had them and that he would not let the UN inspect as per Gulf 1 war demands. This is a true fool because if he allowed them in he would still be in power and the USA could not have gone in or risk violation of the UN charter. Alll those people calling for Bush and Blair as war criminals would be right. But since the UN was thrown out and Saddam said he had them they are 100% justified.

Answer 3

Wolfie, You are either retarded or just of average American mentality. The people of Boston were the single largest contributor to the IRA. It is a policy of America that a country that supports terrorism should be shunned or taken out. Remember Lybia. What if the UK bombed Boston for supporting terrorism.

It was with US help that Saddam managed to stay in power.
The US are just as to blame for anything that Saddam did.
The US & UK are doing the same thing in Iraq right now.
Maybe it needs a heavy hand/dictator to control the country.

I'm not a suporter of Saddam, but I cannot let you get away with saying that the USA went into that country because of the way he treated his people, otherwise they would have gone in at the time, just as they should have in Rwanda,Darfu or Zimbabwe if they cared about anyone other than their gas guzzling cars and how to get the fuel for them on the cheap. The USA behaves like a bunch of playground bullies always picking on whoever they think that they can beat up. Usually small countries. I have lived in a country (for most of my life) where this sort of warfare happened and it is a great leveller. The bully cannot win when you don't know who you are fighting. The only way forward is dialog but after having their backsides kicked in Vietnam and the horn of Africa, they still repeat the same mistakes and will only learn when the gung ho attitude is lost.

Answer 4

When George W's father was American President, he & Barbara were on some official trip in the Middle East with some other Western leaders (sorry, can't remember the details) and Iraq, ie Saddam made an attempt on their lives, tried to blow up their car or something. I've heard Dubya quoted as saying 'Saddam tried to kill mah Daddy'. That's why - it's a grudge. Why the attempt by Saddam? Hates the West.

Answer 5

Saddam was not the 'nicest' leader in the world but there are plenty of them still around and not all in the Middle East ... at least Saddam maintained some sort of order in Iraq which before the Gulf War was relatively modern compared to its neighbors ... for example women were not subjugated under extreme Muslim laws and life [if you did not rock Saddam's boat] was fairly normal ... now it's just a horrible mess for most ordinary people ... I fear the same will happen in Egypt and Libya ... !

Answer 6

Saddam Hussein, other than verbally, has never posed a threat to the west. In fact the west paid for him and his supposed "weapons of mass destruction" to keep the Ayatollah in check. Once he was gone Saddam had the barefaced cheek to use his American and British guns on Kuwait. Had Kuwait not been sitting on a large puddle of oil being supplied to the U.S. on the cheap then no-one would have cared. (See Darfur/Sierra Leone/Zimbabwe/Angola/Chile/East Timor).

It made it easier for the western governments to portray Saddam as a threat because of the mass killings of his own people. In reality he was a tin-pot dictator paid for by U.S. and only ever a threat to his immediate neighbours which is what the likes of Thatcher, Reagan and Bush Snr wanted.

Answer 7

Nothing..
I guess the people who hate Saddam most of them dont even knew where IRAQ is. I guess lack of knowldege of outside world. Saddam had nothing to do with 9/11. It is just a lack of knowldege of outside world. I mean the world beyond baseball and college football (I prefer to call it handball).

Its just that they hear on TV that Saddam is bad and they go lie "Oh My God!!! He is evil".

I personally neither like him or dislike him. But he kept IRAQ as one country for quite a good time even when IRAQ was plagued by sanctions. Maybe what he did was necessary to keep IRAQ united. I dont know. No one else after him is able to keep control. Because after he is gone there is chaos right now with no solution in sight. There are more evil people than Saddam. He was just another person who though his life and comfort was greater than lives of other people. I guess there is one US president who fall under this category.

Answer 8

Believe as you wish, he was a threat to all of the world. There were world leaders that wanted him removed from power. Unable or unwilling to do it themselves, they asked the Americans to step in. He was a threat to region stability. He would not abide by sanctions imposed in 1991. He became a problem to the world, and was taken out. It is just that simple. I have no information on the IRA being funded by the American government. They are considered to be terrorists, and we usually do not fund terrorists. I have no idea where you got that information from, but I would question it. Whether Saddam was directly involved with terrorists or not is not a material concern. If he allowed them to operate in his country then he was an accessory to their crimes, and by law, that made him equally guilty.

Answer 9

Americans hate Saddam Hussein because he controlled a lot of oil on the market and was threatening to destroy the oil cartels by selling it as a free agent and because he also refused to do what he was told by the US government

Answer 10

Wow.... so many things wrong with your statement and so little time and space to respond.

"Hate Saddam"...???
We dont hate him..... we took out a vicious despot that exterminated human beings just like Adolf Hitler did. Saddam killed 180,000 Kurds alone in Mosul.

"America funded the IRA"...???
The USA never gave one penny to the IRA, but people living anywhere are free to donate to whatever they wish to. If that money goes to the wrong place who is at fault? Certainly not the country where the donations were collected from. If that is the case then England is as guilty as any other since the funding for terrorists is worldwide, happening in every major nation out there.

Answer 11

Good question.

I think US citizens who hate Saddam also have to hate bush. If not, they are all two-faced. Their president killed lots of people by the "war for piece" lies. And the tragic point is still no piece in the middle-east after Saddam. Also I neither like nor dislike Saddam but he was definitely the balance-man of the middle-east and have been killed for nothing. Sorry, not for nothing, for petrol!!!