Why saddam hussein was good

But you know what he did well? He killed terrorists. He did that so good," Trump told supporters at a campaign rally Tuesday night in Raleigh, North Carolina. They were a terrorist, it was over. Trump has previously said the world would be " percent better" if dictators like Hussein and Libya's Moammar Gadhafi were still in power.

Prior to the U. Hussein suppressed dissent in his country and used poison gas against 5, Iraqi Kurds. Jake Sullivan, a Clinton senior policy adviser, said Trump's "praise for brutal strongmen seemingly knows no bounds. Sullivan said such comments "demonstrate how dangerous he would be as commander-in-chief and how unworthy he is of the office he seeks.

For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Politics Covid U. News World Opinion Business. Share this —. Follow NBC News. By Ali Vitali. Trump in Praise of Dictators July 6, At least it's historic — Andrea Mitchell mitchellreports July 6, He did that so good. They were terrorists. Hussein, it is true, killed a lot of people. The estimates run into the hundreds of thousands, and he murdered in a variety of appalling ways: He had his victims shot, gassed, blown up, beheaded and even torn apart by wild animals.

And while all of his victims had excellent reasons for not liking life under the longtime Iraqi dictator, almost none were terrorists. Thousands of terrorists called Iraq home, and their organizations had the blood of Israelis, Turks, Iranians and Europeans from numerous countries on their hands. Saddam promised to pay the families of suicide bombers who killed Israelis for their deeds. It is true that he despised jihadists and had nothing to do with al Qaeda, but that hardly diminishes his record.

Not for nothing, Iraq was among the first batch of countries designated by Washington as state sponsors of terror in Perhaps Trump has information that is not widely available, but only one case of a terrorist being killed in Iraq comes readily to mind: the death of Abu Nidal. Before Osama bin Laden came along, Nidal—also known as Sabry al Banna—was widely considered the most vicious terrorist alive. He worked, by turns, for the Syrians, the Libyans and the Iraqis, engineered notorious airport massacres in in Rome and Vienna, and ultimately was credited with some deaths and injuries.

Nidal was a particular favorite of Hussein, who employed him for assassinations and other wet-work from the beginning of his career in the s.