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- DevinWatson, on 11/03/2009, -2/+18http://digg.com/users/syntaxgs/history/comments
Kids, this is what happens when you don't go to school... - MacBookForMe, on 11/02/2009, -2/+16The ghost of Sadam is still present all over that sad country...
- gankige, on 11/03/2009, -2/+14The Bluth family was behind Saddam's architecture.
- Peggles, on 11/03/2009, -1/+12Reading those comments made me laugh so hard. I don't know if he's doing it on purpose for a joke, if he drunk everytime on digg or if he's really that stupid. It's funny either way.
- FormerBabby, on 11/03/2009, -1/+7Even Saddam can find the reply button.
- Dolleater, on 11/03/2009, -2/+8I for one welcome our new American overlords.
- FormerBabby, on 11/03/2009, -0/+5Standing O for Kramer.
- Sacheverell, on 11/03/2009, -9/+14Saddam had no 'good heart' - he murdered millions. All these monuments should be blown to a million pieces.
- syntaxgs, on 11/03/2009, -6/+11sadm evil I person lee glad they ateh him
- IphtashuFitz, on 11/03/2009, -1/+6Damn Digg effect...
http://rorr.im/ - Kettek, on 11/03/2009, -4/+9Only the good die young.
RIP Hitler - dha07030, on 11/03/2009, -1/+6Unless you were a Kurd.
- sangjmoon, on 11/03/2009, -1/+6When the murderers control the country, of course they aren't going to blow themselves up. They just used guns and torture as the security forces of the country. Read up on all the mass graves in Iraq resulting from Saddam's rule.
- FlaNative, on 11/03/2009, -0/+4George Bush has killed more Iraqis than Saddam by at least a two to one ratio.
- DreamSpirit3, on 11/03/2009, -5/+9Believe it or not people were overall happier in 2000 than they are now. This is because people's incomes were rising. Family's could go out for recreation without worry about any attack. People were generally more at peace. Although they were restricted in many ways. The pros out weighed the cons. Now people can't even walk across the street without worrying about being kidnapped or hurt in someway! Crime is rampant. Disease is as well.
Although Saddam was a terrible ruler. Saddam at least kept the country's diverse population unified with an iron fist. He at least helped to make Iraq a relatively secure Country. And most forget Saddam put Iran in Check !
There is so much more to understand than this childish Hero vs. Villain Nonsense! - sangjmoon, on 11/03/2009, -0/+4Authoritarianism always provides more security than a government that allows more individual freedom. I guess your slant of the motto "Give me liberty or give me death" would be "Give me a dictator who likes me or give me death".
- codyman, on 11/03/2009, -0/+4Saddam thought he was like the successor to the ancient Iraq leader Ashurnasirpal II (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashurnasirpal_II), a notorious ruler of the region who also built bigger than life palaces to present himself as a threat to the other nations around him.. funny thing is, he died and his empire crashed to the ground quickly
You can check out about 5 of the crazy big palace reliefs at the LACMA in LA, they are pretty cool (although I guess Berlin has a lot more of them)... worth checking out if you're in LA especially if you haven't been to the LACMA to begin with - BohicaTwentyTwo, on 11/03/2009, -1/+5At the bottom of the Swords of Victory are the helmets of dead Iranian soldiers.
- inactive, on 11/03/2009, -2/+5It's sad how the US and Western media has distorted the truth about Iraq.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2a6gV_JsWo&fea ...
Anyone who cares about truth should watch that movie, if anything its concept is brilliant and it established a new genre in documentary filmmaking. - Spirods, on 11/03/2009, -0/+2i d like to see him try to respond to this
- stinkynavajoe, on 11/02/2009, -11/+13Saddam had a good heart. He was just misunderstood.
- spoon088, on 11/04/2009, -0/+2Iraq had one of the highest standards of living in the Middle East and best healthcare, now it's just Palestine 2.0.
- sangjmoon, on 11/03/2009, -2/+4Getting rid of Saddam Hussein was the best thing for the middle east. It is easier to count the neighbors he hasn't attacked than those he has. He manufactured the suicide vests and supported in many other ways the violent Palestinian organizations. This isn't even counting the atrocities he performed on his own people. The best thing Bush did was to get rid of this monster.
- JoeParanoid, on 11/03/2009, -0/+2And instead we replaced it with substandard construction, concrete walls separating neighborhoods and a fortified embassy. Fear just has a new face.
- mullzoo, on 11/03/2009, -0/+1"I even defaced a rare book to get that picture of Saadam in a speedo!"
- inactive, on 11/04/2009, -0/+1The united states murdered millions of natives and we murdered well over a million Iraq civilians too. Now we are murdering people in Pakistan apparently. The difference is when he murdered people the rest of the nation still had an infrastructure running water ***** like that. Another example of Uncle Sam sticking his big ass nose somewhere it doesnt belong.
- inactive, on 11/04/2009, -0/+1Exactly, we shredded that country and killed a million+ civilians, we have just as much blood on our hands.
- inactive, on 11/03/2009, -0/+1I can has hershey chocolate bar?
- bmson, on 11/03/2009, -1/+2I hope we safe some of these artifacts.
This is history. - thetruckert, on 11/05/2009, -0/+1Yes, I am glad they ate him too.
- elblanco, on 11/03/2009, -0/+1Some more.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/elblanco5/sets/721576 ... - inactive, on 11/03/2009, -0/+1Well it's not like Russia doesn't have helmets of dead Germans at their monuments either.
The difference though is theirs was actually a real victory instead of a stalemate with no winner. - m0llusk, on 11/04/2009, -0/+1True, but there were gaps. The electrical grid was falling apart even before any attacks.
- jacobjohnson, on 11/04/2009, -1/+2Poor Iraq, every time something good happens, it falls back on hard times. It was the cradle of civilization during the time of ancient Babylon and Mesopotamia, and the Persians come in and held it captive for centuries. Then, as the Islamic empire spreads, Baghdad becomes the largest city in the world this side of China, and arguably the most cosmopolitan in the world, until the Mongols come in and reek havoc. After years under British colonial rule, it finally gets its freedom, and after some tumultuous early years, the prize Iraqis get is Saddam. He had a chance to bring Iraq back to the glory years, unfortunately he felt that being a ruthless dictator would be more fun.
- OMGscience, on 11/03/2009, -3/+3At least Saddam kept the religious heathens from blowing themselves up in crowded markets full of more religious heathens…
- rmxz, on 11/03/2009, -3/+3It's interesting to compare the actions of the various bush-axis-of-evil countries.
Saddam: disarmed his country of his WMDs (even though they apparently paid the US, the UK and others well over $500 million for related technologies[1]) and let UN inspectors in.
Kim Jong-il: decided it was safer to accelerate his nuclear testing and missile infrastructure despite barely having enough resources to feed his people.
What kind message did that send the world?
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_and_weapons_of_m ... - inactive, on 11/03/2009, -1/+1Baghdad Bob, is that you?!
- inactive, on 11/03/2009, -2/+1If we rounded up Iraqi insurgents and mutilated and beat them to death we could end the bombings too but were better than that.
- inactive, on 11/03/2009, -2/+1holy crap, what a find!
- FlaNative, on 11/03/2009, -2/+1The "W" legacy is the real haunt of Iraq.
- inactive, on 11/03/2009, -4/+3You can argue the invasion of Iraq was a ***** but really the Iraqis need to take some personal responsibility for the violence in their country as well instead of blaming American troops.
The Kurdish territories are relatively peaceful and economically flourishing, last time I checked they were in the same state and borders, so why are they not experiencing bombings, kidnappings and reprisal killings?
The problem rests squarely on the Sunni and Shia Arabs who instead of focusing on unity and looking towards building a new democratic Iraq would rather settle old scores and keep this stupid inter-Islamic fighting for another century. Surf an average Sunni Muslim message board and you will find hateful comments on how Shias are flies and heretics even worse than the Jews, the feeling is mutual on many Shia forums.
Is it any wonder Israel can't sign a peace deal with their neighbors most of the time, their neighbors can't even get along with each other! - JessicaWinters, on 11/03/2009, -11/+8I'm so glad Saddam is dead. We should move onto Iran. We'll clean up these terrorist countries one country at a time.
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