Trump problem: Saddam killed Kurds and dissenters, not terrorists

Posted by | July 7, 2016 11:14 | Filed under: News Behaving Badly Politics


Saddam Hussein wasn’t a slayer of terrorists. In fact, he gave money to families of suicide bombers. Trump’s praise of him for killing terrorists was factually incorrect.

(AP Photo/Yahya Ahmed, File)

Iraq’s dictator was responsible for gassing thousands of Kurdish civilians, using chemical weapons against Iran, invading Kuwait, crushing political dissent and giving money to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers who terrorized Israelis.

But killing terrorists? Not in the eyes of the West. The U.S. listed Iraq during the Saddam years not as an opponent of terrorism, but as a state sponsor of it.

And now, the late dictator’s Baath party makes up the organizational backbone of the Islamic State, the principal Islamic extremist threat.

Trump has maintained for a decade that the otherwise bad Iraqi leader was good in taking on terrorists. “You know what he did well?” he asked a campaign crowd in Raleigh, North Carolina, on Tuesday night. “He killed terrorists. He did that so good.”

He went on: “They didn’t read ’em the rights, they didn’t talk. They were a terrorist, it was over.” It was a view he repeated Wednesday at a rally in Cincinnati, but with the caveat that he wasn’t praising Saddam as some critics had suggested. The Iraqi leader “was a bad man,” he insisted, adding that “I hate Saddam Hussein.”

Yet, in October, Trump asserted the world would be “100 percent” better off if Saddam and Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi had been allowed to stay in power. This, despite the fact Trump initially if unenthusiastically supported the invasion of Iraq (“I guess so”) and called strongly for the West to step in and help oust Gadhafi, which it did.

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11 responses to Trump problem: Saddam killed Kurds and dissenters, not terrorists

  1. KABoink_after_wingnut_hacker July 7th, 2016 at 11:37

    His followers are too thick to understand these facts.

    • mistlesuede July 7th, 2016 at 14:49

      And no one else is correcting the record that they would ever hear.

  2. Suzanne McFly July 7th, 2016 at 12:38

    I wish there was a way his voters could be governed by him. Why are we saving them from his disastrous Presidency too? These are the very same people who voted for bush twice and only thanks to President Obama’s policies, we are coming out of the disaster he put us in.

    • mistlesuede July 7th, 2016 at 14:49

      If only we could split the actual universe away from the alternate one they live in. I’d say go for it.

      • Red Mann July 7th, 2016 at 15:02

        Send em all to Texas, then Texit.

  3. William July 7th, 2016 at 13:52

    Is anyone actually surprised? This is the same guy who doesn’t know what th nd is, or how to pronounce Tanzania.

  4. mistlesuede July 7th, 2016 at 14:47

    If we had a media worth anything, his rantings and ravings would be checked and disputed quickly and repeatedly, just like how he spews them.

  5. amersham1046 July 7th, 2016 at 18:49

    Donald Trump , the final frontier , he is a black hole of ignorance

  6. robert July 7th, 2016 at 21:44

    I guess there was a reason why storming Norman and daddy hw bush didn’t take out Saddam ithe first time. Maybe he was considered less of a public enemy back then?

  7. bpollen July 8th, 2016 at 05:23

    Though you gotta admit, killing Kurds is fairly popular in the Middle East.

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