Reply #6: i'm not saying he was a great leader

[adriennui]

i'm saying he led and at least there wasn't murder and mayhem in the streets of baghdad and elsewhere.
there is a part of me that sort of admires him (folks don't flame me). he reads, writes novels, and is not religious, and remember at one time he was our buddy. when israel bombed osirik he sent a few scuds over and that was it. i know for a fact that israelis didn't fear iraq as they did iran and syria.

saddam was our buffer, now we're all vulnerable, the religious wackjobs are running the asylums (in the US as well as the other muslim countries in the mideast).

we need moderation. it's becoming more and more elusive.