July 6, 2016

Trump praises Saddam Hussein

Portland Press Herald

  Donald Trump, who frequently criticizes U.S. foreign policy under President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, is praising Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s ruthlessness.

“Saddam Hussein was a bad guy, right? … But you know what he did well? He killed terrorists. He did that so good,” Trump told supporters at a campaign rally Tuesday night in Raleigh, North Carolina. “They didn’t read ’em the rights, they didn’t talk. They were a terrorist, it was over.”

Trump has previously said the world would be “100 percent better” if dictators like Hussein and Libya’s Moammar Gadhafi were still in power. Prior to the U.S. invasion, Iraq was listed by the U.S. as a state sponsor of terrorism. Hussein suppressed dissent in his country and used poison gas against 5,000 Iraqi Kurds.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Gaddafi was cooperating with non proliferation and antiterrorism efforts. There was no need to destroy his country. The resultant misery is obviously worse than his remaining.

Hussein was awful but I challenge anyone to make the case that either the US or the Iraqi people are better off now than when he was in power.