Posted on 06/18/2014 3:33:42 AM PDT by markomalley
>So what? They suck all over sand-land.
To various degrees. Some strongmen are better than others.
>If Bush had handled the war on America properly, job #1 would have been alliances with Saddam and his military.
Not Saddam himself. He was a supporter of terrorism. What we should have done was to get rid of him, and put in a autocrat that while not brutal as him, was still willing to do whatever it took to stamp out the Islamists.
A strongman, yes, but not Saddam. He was a supporter of terrorism himself.
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