Was Iraq better off with Sadamm?

Question

This week tells me that Iraq is about to fall into total chaos!

Answer 1

A genocidal, madman who committed horrific atrocity's on his own people WHAT do YOU Think? I say NO, NO, NO!


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Those who are giving thumbs down need to live under a madman like Saddam

Answer 2

Amazingly enough, it looks like Iraq was definitely better off with Saddam Hussein in power. Why? Obviously the Sunni and Shi'ite sects hate each other very much and it took a heavy fisted tyrant like Saddam Hussein to keep them from slaughtering each other. There is no doubt that he was brutal, but it appears that he killed a LOT less people than the people themselves have. Plus, there was order--there was safe water to drink, electricity to power air conditioners, gasoline was available, there was free education and national health care. He was a mean SOB but if you didn't cross him he left you alone. Democracy can't work everywhere and in a lot of ways it doesn't even work very well here, so presuming that it would be clear sailing in Iraq was to say the least quite unrealistic. Oh to have a time machine and undo all of this!

Answer 3

Iraqis Say They Were Better Off Under Hussein
January 3, 2007

Many adults in Iraq believe the coalition effort has been negative, according to a poll by the Iraq Centre for Research and Strategic Studies and the Gulf Research Center. Ninety percent of respondents think the situation in their country was better before the U.S.-led invasion.

Answer 4

I thought I had seen the dumbest question the other day but no, this one wins that award. Of course there not better off.Perhaps you might look at Saddam and see what he did in Iraq. How about the shallow graves of political prisoners with bullets in their skulls. How about the bastard children of Saddam who on brides honeymoon night would kidnap them and rape them till they were dead or near death, how about torturing their athletes in the olympics for losing, how about Saddam using chemical weapons on the Kurds. Have you ever seen what chemical weapons do to somebody? Of course not cause you have the luxury of sitting at home being ignorant of what is going on in the world. Why do you have that luxury? Cause of those very same soldiers that you ask why are they in Iraq.

Answer 5

Better for whom? For Sunnis, life was better under Saddam but for most other Iraqis- definitely not. For the Kurds, things are vastly better without Saddam. So let's look at the big picture:

What's the average daily death toll now, compared to 1999?

What's the employment picture like now, compared to 1999?

How are basic services like electrity, food, water & medical care now, compared to 1999? And we have to consider for all of Iraq, not just Baghdad. We've built a lot of roads, schools etc but we also wrecked a very fragile infrastructure during the invasion.

How many did Saddam kill during his reign, and how many have died so far during the war?

If you're an average Iraqi walking down the street to buy bread, how dangerous was it for you in 1999 vs 2007?

How much say did Iraqis have about how they were governed, in 1999 vs now?

What is political freedom worth to people, compared to stability? Does it's value outweigh the cost in lives, property and standard of living, or is that freedom worthless without the security to exercise it?

One side-effect of having a brutal dictator in power is that his iron rule kept opposing factions within the country from engaging in all-out war.

Is it better to live in fear of being taken away by Saddam's death squads or fear of a random bomb at a mosque?

Answer 6

about to fall into total chaos? about to? please tell me the difference between total chaos and what's happening right now? what about iraq reminds you even remotely of anything but chaos?

ok, ok. when it gets really bad american troops will be firing on anything that moves, agreed. and it's not gone that far yet. and too there are no tanks clanking down the street with red cresents on the sides. the russian army is not in country, nor our friends the peoples republic. but when that happens the chaos will have boiled up and become general throughout Eurasia.

as for was iraq better off with saddam, i'll say this: the average life expectency for an iraqi citizen was certainly longer. you could take the family downtown for a shopping trip and recognise which were the stores. there were no missles flying through the air. there were no suicide bombers. there were no hospitals full of children dying from depleted uranium.


edit>>> someone said "if the iraqis would get a pair and stand up for themselves... ." friend they do every day... and coalition forces shoot them. why? 'cause we are not there to bring peace, we are there to occupy. peace on our terms only.

Answer 7

Charlotte
Well of course they were, Hon. Those of us with a shred or more of knowledge about the Middle East opposed this war from its very inception due---in large part---to the knowledge that Iraq wouldn't survive very well without Saddam.
I laugh when I think about the people who go on and on over Saddam's murderous ways....well, Saddam was a dictator, and he killed his enemies. That's what dictators do. Has anyone considered that a large percentage of those he killed---the Al-Qaeda miltant Islamic-types---are the very type of people we are battling against now?
Saddam ran a secular, non-religious government in Iraq. Those Islamists threatened his power, so he killed them. What don't people GET about that?

Answer 8

Of course they tell you this they are against the war. An of course they were better with a ruthless dictator who killed hundred of thousands of Kurds. An who cares that his sons had the power to kill the Olympic athletes who didn't win metals, an who cares that he DID have weapons of MASS DESTRUCTION ( he moved them out before we got there) An who cares that he was harboring terrorist like Osama an alzarquari (how ever the hell you spell it) His death was a blessing to the world. He had it out for AMERICA an we neutralized the problem

Answer 9

No they will tell you that they are fighting for freedom not just the right to live as they were under Saddam.

Answer 10

Was Iraq better off with Sadam?

HELL NO