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Originally posted by RoninLB
I'm with tech on this one.. meaning you knew exactly what you're dealing with.. of course I understand that he was a big pia.. so big that he wore out his welcome to the world community..
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Ronin, have to respectfully disagree with you and tech about the stabilizing effect of Saddam. To me he was about as stabilizing as Yassar is in his region. I think Saddam actually became a little mad with power - annexing Kuwait, warring with Iran, gassing the Kurds, building monuments to himself, putting together that Candy-ass Republican guard (what a gang of pussies they turned out to be) and letting his demon spawn have their way with the Iraqi people. He also financed terrorism and harbored terrorists - what middle east country doesn't? But he provided the resources to crank it up a notch above just strapping on bombs and blowing up restaurants.
He didn't exactly wear out his welcome either. Old Europe loved the guy. They were going to let him stay in power indefinetly as long as the oil for palaces program was in place. They knew he was building that stupid long range gun to shoot scuds at Israel and turned a blind eye.
As long as the objects of his abuse were his own people and Jews, there was a hands-off policy - even by the US, to our shame, when we sold him arms to fight w/Iran.