That\'s because he used fear, intimidation and murder as well as mass murder to keep them in check. We don\'t use those tactics in the military. Saddam no doubt needed to be taken out of power though. Glad he\'s rotting in jail. He\'s one of the few people I\'d love to see in jail for his life. After all he did, a quick death just doesn\'t seem right. They should put him in a prison in the US and let some big guy named Bubba make him his bitch. Now that would be punishment.
but that\'s not why went in there,..not because he was bad, or a brutal dictactator even tho eventually it turned into some twisted liberation mission,...we went in there because he supposedly had wmd\'s....i think leaving him in power would have kept the region stabilized, as it is now, what 3 yrs later, over 2700 american lives lost and the situation is actually waaay worse than it was before we even went in there?.....al sadr\'s militia bombed three iraqi police stations and took over the whole city after the u.s. went in there and cleaned it up....
how can bush, rumsfield and others constantly say they are winning the war? Not too long ago the violence wouldn\'t come anywhere near the green zone(baghdad) now violence happens there on a daily basis....every time bush talks he has that stupid-ass smirk on his face like he doesn\'t have a clue....i think bush is just riding in cruise control until the next prez comes thru...cause he is leaving behind a catastrophic mess.....