Why is Saddam an idiot?
608915
Just watch the movie, UNCLE SADDAM.  It's a "lighthearted" look at the "butcher of Baghdad".\n\nWhat happens to dictators is that they begin to believe they are the "master of all they survey".  In Saddam's mind, Iraq is HIS.\n\nOne of the questions posed to him in the movie was why he spent all this money building palaces while people starved.  His answer was typical of a self-deceived tyrant: if they spent all that money on bread, they would have too much bread.  He also said that people shouldn't work just to have bread to eat.\n\nOne respondant denied he is stupid.  Saddam is often clever, cagey, and insightful.  However, the reason he was so successful was not by being smart, but by being relentlessly brutal.  You can accomplish a lot if you don't care what happens to anyone.\n\nStupidity is not recognizing the obvious.  While everyone else can see that he is leading his country in the wrong direction, he can't.  That's stupidity.\n\nMaybe idiot is the wrong word for Saddam. He is certainly a psychopath (A person with an antisocial personality disorder, manifested in aggressive, perverted, criminal, or amoral behavior without empathy or remorse.)\n\nLike one of your other respondants succinctly replied: he believed his own press.
962539
because they are idiots.
315934
What are you an Idiot?!
570204
To cover up the amount of terrorism that the US is involved in.  The mass murder of Iraqi civilians (currently standing at 300, 000) and the detaining and torture of others at Guantanamo Bay would not have been got away with if it appeared that he conciously participated.\n\nHis stupidity is a cover.  There are no "intelligence failures" - the destruction of Iraq was planned from the outset in order to steal the oil.  The US government and their corporate backers needed a stupid patsy to head up operations and boy did they get a stupid one in Dubya.\n\nJust because he's stupid tho doesnt mean that he shouldnt be tried in the Hague.
134071
he has no brain. seriosly, the man is an idiot
115088
Idiots promote Idiots...\n\nFrom all the ones ive talked to they dont blame him or think it's not his fault.. \nLets see, higher taxes ( has anyones taxes been lower)\nthe "Pig" pork in the goverment has grown over 100 percent in the last 6 years.\ngo from being in the black into major red...\nsaying are ports are safe yet we had to attack Iraq because there were terrorist, and doomsday bombs,weapons?\nno plan to leave, ohhh no plan for war ...\nlets not forget that chenny's company was the only one allowed to enter Iraq.\nthe office seems to Cover up or backtrack on everything from the war to chennys gun slinging...\nLayoffs, plant closings I havent seen the workforce this bad since oooohhh the great depression....\nI could go on and on but they'll (rep) will have to blame someone else or something else for all the bush wacking going on
507087
No, he's just an idiot. Poor baby.
462906
we have an idiot in our white house that has no clue what he's doing. None of his "plan" is justifiable. Its a war for oil, not peace. A power hungry village idiot (Somewhere In Texas a Village is Missing It's Idiot, best bumper sticker i've seen about this cause) came up with the brilliant plan that we could dispose of WOMD in iraq. Which basically brings us to good and them to not. It was pointless from the point that we found no WOMD. Anyway, it proved to be damn near impossible so we turned it into a reformation mission. We tried to reform the government yadda yadda yadda. Well we went over there to find WOMD. We didnt. We found a guy in a hole. Big woo. So now there is absolutely no reason for us to be in iraq. We accomplished all the things bush set out in the beginning. Now its just ridiculous. We're over there fighting for some retarded cause that a texan oil junkie idiot decided we absolutely needed to work for. Jay Leno put it right when he said "We are now down to the final 4. I'm not talking about basketball, i'm talking about how many people still think george bush is doing a good job."
721061
You are a smart cookie!  Our fiasco in Iraq has given Iran the guts they needed to challenge the US.  After seeing how we're getting our asses kicked by a ragtag bunch of jihadists, they figured it was time to kick some sand in the bully's face.  And yes, anybody who's been paying attention knows that Saddam didn't want to admit he didn't have WMDs because he didn't want to appear weak to the Iranians.  Just another example of how stupid and self-absorbed some Americans can be.  We stumble into areas of the world where we don't have the first clue what's going on.
961765
He is an idiot. No matter what you feel about the war you don't put down the troops. They are having a hard time over there. Not all of them agree with the war either, but they enlised and are standing by thier promise.
614984
Saddam Hussein was a young man who was angry at the Iraqi monarchy (installed by the british).  He hooked up with the socialist Ba'ath party based in syria.  The Ba'athists were devout anti imperial and anti-communist.  The USA, fearing communist influence in iraqi politics after the toppling of iraq by general Qassim, trained and funded a group of Ba'athist members including Saddam, and helped them execute a bloody coup that killed Qassim.  They were chased out of Iraq by an angry populace in 1963 and regrouped later in 1968 and finally managed to take power during iraq's turbulent years.  Saddam was only VP at the time but was the main power base of iraq.  In 1973 Saddam angered the USA by participating in the oil embargo after the yom kippur war, but quickly became friends again after the Iranian Revolution toppled the Pro-USA Shah Pahlavi.  Saddam Hussein saw the disorganization of the Iranian Revolutionary Government and saw it as an opportunity to defeat Iran, which was the biggest military power in the middle east at the time, even bigger than israel.   Saddam Hussein had taken power as president in 1979 and went on an internal purge of suspected anti-baath elements.  Dozens of iraqi lawmakers were killed or jailed.  The Iran-Iraq war went on for nearly a decade from 1980-1988.  The United States had a hand in making sure neither side won because of concerns about a power vacuum.  Early in the war the USA helped iraq with intelligence and shipments of chemical weapons precursors.  later on the USA began selling spare parts and advanced missiles to Iran.  This was called the "Reagan Iran-Contra Scandal" where the president sold advanced american missiles to iran, took the profits and illegally funnelled them to the contra terrorists in central america.  Both sides used chemical weapons, and both regularly attacked each others cities with ballistic missiles.  After the end of the war, iraq was a broken, debt riddled nation.  Iraq's reason for invading kuwait in 1990 was complaints of kuwait overselling oil and slant-drilling into iraqi oil fields (both true).  The USA tricked saddam into attacking kuwait by proclaiming they had no special defence agreemnent with kuwait.  The USA went to war with iraq in hopes of toppling saddam and restoring the kuwaiti dictatorship.  12 years of postwar UN sanctions followed, and in 2003 George W. Bush decided to attack iraq without provocation, giving false justification of WMD as a reason.  The war continues to this day and the insurgency grows.  American soldiers are dying at a rate of 2 to 3 per day and the country is riddled with ethnic divisions and a looming civil war.   Saddam was captured but it has had no effect on the growing rebellion.
1004544
he dumb and he an idiot and if you let him dictate anything yoyu dumb . He just want his cake and he want to eat it but he cant in this life unless he finds some idiot women who will let him.
331251
He's an idiot, but whatever brings the championship
1132367
no he is an absolute idiot
739599
Why are you such a moron?
1060839
cause they are idiots
133808
Saddam was the Baathist party leader in Iraq.  Most Sunni's are Baathist as well.  That is the connection between the two.  Saddam is by no means a religious man.  It was on rare occasion that he even wore Arab garb.  The Sunni's enjoyed most of the perks under his watch.  Most of the army was Sunni, yet most of the Republican Guard were from his home town. These are the people that he trusted the most; these were his most loyal followers, it had nothing to do with religion. His relationship with all other segments of Iraqi society was at best, guarded.  The Kurds would have had his ass in a New York minute, given half the chance.  The Turkman had no particular edge with Saddam, and the Christians just stayed out of his way. The Shiites, particularly those in the south, had strong ties to Iran.  Iran's brand of Islam is predominately Shiite, so Saddam was not particularly friendly to the Shiites.  Saddam ruled with scare tactics and he was pretty effective with them.  He kept every one under control but at a high price.  The mass graves still pop up occasionally!