Why were we supposed to hate Saddam Hussein?

inb4 this stealth /pol/ thread takes off
probably won't reach bump limit without trump in the op though

It's okay, he can change.

Maintained associations with some truly wicked characters.

>>149535558 (OP)
>genocidal dictator that dragged his country into war multiple times.
Guess.

>>149535558 (OP)
Israel didn't like him

Relax, guy.

You have no idea how much 9/11 fucked up the american psyche

>>149537269
Fag

>>149537269
This, and if I can be real for a sec,
DAT NIGGA TRIED TO KILL MY FAWTHA

>>149535558 (OP)
he was keeping US oil

>>149537373
This movie was pre-9/11

>>149537408
fr?

>>149535558 (OP)
He was a news badguy and the brave freethinkers at Southpark took that at face value.

>>149535558 (OP)
Manufacturing consent

90s were a very confident time. Rich and trustworthy. If the government said a dude was evil people believed them.

>>149535558 (OP)
Invading Iran and Kuwait, killing Kurdis with chemical weapons, and then U.S. came up with some bullshit about WMD's to kick off the 2003 invasion to oust him from power. Wasn't a good dude, but the coalition of the willing started a costly and catastrophic war on a lie.
Anyway, not /co/ so fuck off now.

He was a socialist and Trey and Matt were more openly right-wing back then.

>>149535558 (OP)
Read up on some of the shit his psycho son was doing.

>>149535558 (OP)
Israel said it was... LE BAD!

>>149535558 (OP)
You mean as a character on the show or the real one?

Well, the character is a megalomaniac who made Satan his bitch.

As for the real one? He was essentially the proto-Putin. He was a kleptocratic dictator who made his way into power by claiming the intended democratic leadership through non-democratic means, then never let go. His reign was marked by weird attempts to annex neighbouring countries, which is what can be considered the ultimate reason why America intervened and caused his downfall. It should also be noted that as his reign went on, his politics became more about a hypocritical appeal to religion and tradition, which is absurd because we know he did consume alcohol on a regular basis as well as engaging in other non-islamic behaviours. While some aspects of life in Iraq might have been "fine" during his reign and the ISIS regime that succeeded him was arguably way worse, the man clearly squandered resources that could have been used to improve living standards for his citizens on himself and the country was hardly a bastion of human rights under his rule.

He was an awful excuse for a leader and human being, not the worst in history but still really bad.

Mass graves in Kurdistan
Gen. Georges Sada said he would kill POWs
Use of chemical weapons they'll admit to during the Iran-Iraq War

>>149538265
I'm willing to bet that much of that shit was just propaganda. Like the babies in shredders that was bullshit

>>149535558 (OP)
We hate whoever Iᛋᛋrael and Amerikkka tells us to hate. That's just the way it goes.

>>149538508
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUky9mPaNTg
There is so much testimony and evidence of Uday being an unhinged lunatic that it's impossible to claim it's "all just propaganda". I'm not even sure why you think it's unlikely that the privileged son of a dictator would get away with raping, murdering and torturing people, there's plenty of other historical examples of such individuals.

>>149535558 (OP)
Oy vey

>>149537269
>Netanyahu out of nowhere

>>149535558 (OP)
He was mean to Satan.

>>149535558 (OP)
He was a vicious dictator, oil, and I heard somewhere he tried to make a banking system like Gaddafi did.

>>149538472
This and he was retarded enough to start a war with Kuwait, if he didn't attack Kuwait his downfall wouldn't be as severe.

>>149539522
>>149538472
He also bribed a lot of people in Europe and the UN as part of the Oil-For-Food Programme
And the money that was supposed to go to the Iraqi people for food went to palaces and shit and weapons but you guys aren't ready for that conversation
Coincidentally a lot of the guys involved (Kofi Annan, Jacques Chirac, George Galloway, Gerhard Schröder) were against the war but I'm sure that was just a coincidence

>>149539734
>>149537269
>>149538265
>>149538472
>>149539522
I'm not from Iraq, but from the Middle East. My country is somewhat more stable, but we all know that Saddam was a tyrant and a mass murderer who oppressed and ethnically cleansed people who opposed his role. But even the most ignorant person on the street knows that if you forcibly ousted him from power and installed a "democracy," it would destabilize the country and the surrounding regions and bring out backward Islamists. Everyone knew this, except for the neoliberal, rotten Americans and Brits, and we've seen the damned consequences.

>>149538346
He wasn't a proto anything, he was basically the usual type that ultimately rules our countries, paranoid and violent men from the security services or the Army, our countries have never had 'democracy', they are failing miserably and need tons of outside support from the US and they still barely making any progress, and as soon as American support disappears, it all falls and we end up with another Saddam

>>149535558 (OP)
He gassed a part of his own people, and started random slap fights with neighboring countries.
The latter one is probably the real reason, since he didn't stay in his own lane.

>>149540644
Don't give anyone that bullshit, the "international community" didn't give a damn about Sudan or Myanmar

>>149535558 (OP)
He's a dictator who kills innocent people by drugs kill anyone in his country who disagrees and has also invaded other countries with no justification and committed war crimes against them.

>>149537339
>>149538276
I'm pretty sure he done plenty of horrible crimes himself included actually try to take over foreign countries who were not attacking him but I guess you can't get over automatic The fact this guy was a dictator who killed people just for having problems with his leadership.

>>149541197
Most of the Middle East gave a crap because he couldn't justify it by saying it would destroy Israel for nonsensical Islamic reasons and it was naked aggression and he didn't have the support of either Russia or America so both of them could easily support giving him hell for that.And if they did it the Internationals Community would condemn both of them

>>149538819
Most of the Middle East gave a crap because he couldn't justify it by saying it would destroy Israel for nonsensical Islamic reasons and it was naked aggression and he didn't have the support of either Russia or America so both of them could easily support giving him hell for that.And if they did it the Internationals Community would condemn both of them

>>149538346
>He was a kleptocratic dictator who made his way into power by claiming the intended democratic leadership through non-democratic means
what the fuck are you talking about, he was an arab nationalist who modeled himself on nasser
> the ISIS regime that succeeded him was arguably way worse
no the american occupation succeeded him with expelled all members of the ba'athist officer class from the military who then went off and joined isis which mostly occupied syria and a small part of iraq
>His reign was marked by weird attempts to annex neighbouring countries, which is what can be considered the ultimate reason why America intervened and caused his downfall.
uhhhhh america intervened to secure oil supplies to prevent another energy crisis.

you are a fucking moron who knows nothing about the middle east which makes you the average american and you should shut up. the only reason saddam fell is because he wasn't an obedient little western puppet like all the other tinpot dictators the west supported over the years and then kicked to the curb when they developed any sort of independence.

>>149537269
But let's stop talking about Israel.

>>149541442
Democratically elected Hamas and Hezbollah are not in egypticity they are genocidal terrorists themselves and when you make children and not uniform soldiers you put everyone at risk And it's not dragging your country into war when the enemy attacked your country with what would be called for any normal conflict a massive war crime by them and taking your civilians hostage you know if they stop trying to destroy Israel and take it civilians hostage the Middle East will find itself not at war with Israel at all.

>>149537269
fuck you kike take a ba'ath