Do you think saddam Hussain should have be left in charge of Iraq?
964990
It's his country, so yes I think so. Bush is president of the U.S.A not the entire world, it's none of our business how he ran his country.
131656
I agree with the first 2 answers...and would like to add I certainly would be embarassed to keeping a leader..(if he deserves that title) such as him in power..when he is doing so much destruction...this certainly is not the road to peace that Humans deserve.
874548
No, and only a complete heartless moron with no honor would think so. We, for whatever reason, right or wrong, have caused too much damage in Iraq to just leave. We MUST clean up our mess.\n\nIf you go to someone's house and make a mess, do you just leave it for them to clean up? You shouldn't!!! It is as easy as that.
773951
It's a bit late to reinstate Saddam, but maybe now stupid Americans can understand why he was a successful ruler.   As for him gassing Kurds....well DUH, they were his political enemies, and that's what dictators do: they destroy their opponents.   I'd like to add that as many as 600,000 Iraqi civiilans have died in the present conflict, so what's worse?   To be destroyed by your own government, or a foreign invader?
837703
Saddam Hussein successfully kept a lid on the Shia/Sunni schism, but we've upset the apple cart.  Not too long ago, the warmongers used to shut people up by asking, "Do you think the Iraqi people were better off under Saddam Hussein?"  Now the answer is clear.  YES THEY WERE!  More are dying now that he ever purged, and there's chaos.
69335
This is a difficult question. Even though President Bush is a bungling fool who started a war for profits, we are now part of the war. Although I believe we need to get our troops put, we can't yet. This is because of the fact that Iraq still does not have a stable government. If we left now, another dictator could take over, and do more damage than has already been done to Iraq.
922473
Bush was wrong from the beginning.\n\nSadam Hussein was a dictator and he deserved to be overthrown. But the idea of "teaching democracy" to Iraq was wrong and non-executable from the beginning. You cannot teach democracy from today to tomorrow. You cannot force democracy. The process of transformation should be slow and should be internally driven. You need wandering 40 years in the desert until a new generation grows up.\n\nAdditionally, the reason of existence of mass destruction weapons were entirely faulty. The only reason America went to was was controlling the oil of Iraq.
18552
They have caused enough problems over there. If they want to continue getting killed and continue killing then they should stay. If they really are seeking democracy for Iraq (which is none of their business in the first place) then they should leave now and let the Iraqis govern themselves and set up a new constitution and start living a normal sovereign life like any country !
536984
Yes they are in civil war and until it is over and they decide who is going to lead them we won't know, it could be worse then Saddam before it is over. There is nothing that we can do to change it.
45273
I guess it's real easy to judge since none of you have to be responsible for the entire country. I have a feeling you have trouble managing your own lives. Only the uninformed have a problem with the way he does things. LOOK honestly at the way Saddam treated his people and the say YOU wouldn't want somebody to help you.  REAL NICE
1116569
Have the Iraqi's formed a democracy of their own choosing? Yes. Is Saddam removed from power and on trial for his horrible crimes? Yes. Is Iraq forming its own military and police forces to be able to protect itself? Yes. Sounds like we are winning to me.
848571
Thats a very utopian idea, my dear.A dictator who would rule with a strict hand also be a kind hearted human, they are extremely rare.Ask the iraqi ppl.\nWhat we do need, is for the public to wake up, the people need to realise that as long as they let things be the way they, things will continue.Like rang de basanti said, our generation needs to awaken and take it into our hands to bring about a change.
602358
Illegal war or not, we have made a mess and we need to help clean it up and finish the job. There are people over there who need to be protected so that they can form a just and fair government of their choosing and to have a chance at a better life. \n\nShould we have gone in in the first place? maybe not. Where we lied to? It looks like it. Was Hussein a direct threat to us? That is debatable. Irregardless, we went in, screwed up the occupation and rebuilding and underestimated the opposition. We now have to fix it as best we can. It is like if I went into your neighborhood and spilled a load of toxic trash all over. If there is no one capable of cleaning it up, I should. I should not leave the mess for you to deal with.
439967
No -- he was responsible for genocide. The most conservative estimates place the death count at his hands somewhere near a million lives. Though many of those deaths were people of other nationalities, a very large percentage were in fact Iraqis who either opposed him, or were conceived of as a threat. No one was safe -- not even his most trusted advisors.
726005
Sorry I didn't. I didn't know that Shiites and Sunnis hated each other so much and that everybody hated the Kurds. I guess I should have thought about it since there was one once Tito died and Yugoslavia was broken up into its original pieces. Clinton had to send troops to stop the genocide there. Still, the evil that Saddam perpetrated on people should be taken into account of why the Shiites are so irritated. Sunnis got the better deal while he was in charge.
885616
This is the reason why it really took guts to make the decision to take out Saddam.  Every scenario is damned if you do, damned if you don't.  Had Bush not gone in and Saddam ended up launching any kind of attack on Israel, the liberals would be all over Bush for "letting it happen".\n\nThere is no way of keeping a Sunni led Iraqi government in power for very long, not when Shi ites are 2/3 of the population (without ruling with an Iron fist like Saddam).  Saudi Arabia sure doesn't want a Theocratic Iraq on its border, but they aren't offering much in the way of assistance.  Sooner or later, Iraq is going to suffer Civil War.  I'd say within 2 months of US troop withdrawal, possibly sooner
912415
If George the First had pulled out early with Barbara, then we'd never have had to make a decision about this mess; this idiot in the White House and the new leadership cleaning up after him, would we?\n\nIf Iraq divides into three and we just allow them have their own culture, their own societies and use the saved funds to find new ways to help Americans in the United States and no more soldiers die in a useless and stupid war of aggression by the U.S. and Iraqis stop being killed by each other in these daily bombings, how can that be a bad thing?\n\nGee.  I wish Barbara had had a headache that night or that GHWB had the good sense to pull out!