So let me get this straight. We removed Saddam Hussein because

[driver8]

he was a brutal dictator, tortured people, and slaughtered thousands and thousands of innocent Iraqis. We did this by killing thousands of Iraqis and also torturing them?

What am I missing, here?

When will someone come to our country and take away our brutal dictator(s)?

[rcrush]

1. We had to show him how to do it right.

No one does it better than us.

[Soylent Brice]

3. you know

at first i was going to put that ROFL icon, then i thought about it and realized how funny that really wasn't. because it's true.

sonofa...!

[ellacott]

2. I still would like to know why we invaded Iraq

It appears that the torture was committed to try and frame a link between Iraq and Al Queda(sp).

[Soylent Brice]

5. my money is on the

"he tried to kill my daddy" excuse.

vindictive little shit.

[ellacott]

10. Very plausible

Thousands of lives were sacrificed just so he could look like a tough guy. I don't see how he lives with himself.

[NightWatcher]

4. nope, we killed him because he knew that there were no WMD's

and that was the main lie that lead us to the Iraq war. bush wanted his war and no one was going to get in his way, even the president of the country he wanted war with

[rcrush]

6. I dont really believe he's even dead.

That hanging I saw on youtube looked fake to me. And Saddam had like 100 body doubles. Could be anyone they hanged.

[ourbluenation]

8. Elvis is that you? It's me, Tupac. n/t

[rcrush]

9. No this is Biggie.

[ourbluenation]

11. Dead men tell no tales. n/t

[TornadoTN]

7. He stated in 1999 that he hoped to be a "war president" to get his policies passed easier

That was one of the many reasons why I worked hard against him in 2000. I was in college then and saw it clearly what they were wanting to do. Many of us saw right then that he and his cronies would do everything they could to plunge the nation into chaos to make sure they could do whatever they wanted.

The scary thing is, we probably haven't even scratched the surface of the damage that was done.

[Mnemosyne]

12. We killed him because he could implicate Poppy, et al. n/t

[VWolf]

13. Quote from Randi Rhodes:

"The rape rooms aren't closed, they're just under new management"