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Originally Posted by RamHammer
Sadam was bad, yes, but it was stable and secular.
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Ah yes the stable and secular Iraq.
24 years of saddam and his sons.
Somewhere between 400,000 and 'over a million' Iraqis killed by him during that time.
Thats somewhere between 17,000 and 42,000 per year.
As you can imagine some years were a bit lean, like after he wiped out the marsh Arabs, but then obviously other years were bumper crops.
Husbands tortured in front of their wives until they die. Babies shot in their mothers arms, then the mothers shot in the face. Sometimes, just the mothers shot, as the babies were so young they couldn't climb out of the pits and therefore didn't need to be shot, just buried.
Then of course there was the invasions of Iran and Kuwait and the payments to suicide bombers families.
Yep, good old stable and secular Iraq.