From: CNN
Editor - Worth reading. Seeing how we were deceived into war, and who is responsible, is essential to our survival.
Editor - Worth reading. Seeing how we were deceived into war, and who is responsible, is essential to our survival.
By Peter Bergen, CNN National Security Analyst
Updated 5:44 AM ET, Thu July 7, 2016
(CNN) Occasionally Donald Trump says something that is politically incorrect but which also
happens to be true.
On Tuesday at a campaign rally in North Carolina, Trump defended the former Iraqi dictator
Saddam Hussein's record on terrorism, saying, "He was a bad guy --
really bad guy. But you
know what? He did well? He killed terrorists. He
did that so well. They didn't read them the
rights. They didn't talk.
They were terrorists. Over. Today, Iraq is Harvard for terrorism."
Defending
the brutal Iraqi dictator who killed hundreds of thousands of his own
people isn't
exactly fashionable. But if you consider the 13 years of
war that have wracked the country --
in which a quarter of a million
have died
-- and add that Saddam brutally repressed all dissent,
including groups
such as al Qaeda, and also add to this that ISIS is itself a fruit of
the Iraq War,
it's a far more defensible position. MORE
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