Surprisingly true actually. Saddam’s regime was certainly the one with the most religious freedom in the mid-east. While a generally brutal dictator, his wrath was mostly directed at the Shiates and the Kurds, who were fighting for independence. As bad as he undoubtedly was, one would be hard pressed to argue that things are now better than the pre-gulf war days, which was fought purely because Kuwait was one of the principle suppliers of Oil to the US at the time. I personally think that the Saddam regime was way better than the present Saudi Arabia regime which is barbaric in the extreme but they are our “friends” because our economic aims coincide, though our values couldn’t be further off.
As part of the “war on terror” we have actually set off the one of the worst civil wars in the region. I pray for the souls of the dead in the church attack but also for the thousands of innocents who have died as part of the sectarian violence.
Its strange how one needs to support the “war on terror” to be called Conservative. I don’t subscribe to that since I don’t like being used by Men and their calls of false patriotism.
First the "war on a tactic(terror)" was plain stupid. That is like going to war against those that use the flanking maneuver. Wars must be fought over political ideologies such as communism and Islam.
Second... Islam(political idealogical) was going to take over Iraq anyway there was no stopping that after the first gulf war. Al Qaeda was already there in force when we got there.
All non-muslims are a target no matter what we did.