The guy didn't deserve to die.

I'm not saying he shouldn't have been removed from power, he was a dictator, of course he should have, but it wasn't the U.S's place to remove him, it was the Iraqi people's. If they're too weak to overthrow him, they're stuck with him. It happens all over the world, you don't see the U.S. removing the dozens of African dictators, the handful of European, Asian and South American dictators.

What made Saddam so different? Other than the fact that he had oil and Bush's dad didn't finish the job 15 years ago? He killed a bunch of Kurds in 1982? First of all there had been a failed assassination attempt on him months or weeks earlier, so he decided to give them a little payback by gassing their families. A practice that I guarantee you 100% the majority of the other dictators also follow. But not only do we only remove Saddam from power based on this one attack in 1982, but in 1982 he was our ally against Iran, so the U.S. didn't get word of this video until the late 80s when we were at war with him and we needed propaganda against him.

The guy should have been removed from power, sure, but it wasn't our place to go remove him. On top of that, he should have just been kicked out of Iraq, he could spend the rest of his days spending his fortune in Paris or something (a la Pinochet.) Sure, he was a dictator, but he acted just like any other dictator, dictators who go on living. Did he really deserve the death sentence?

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