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Originally Posted by kinnikpasswordforgetter
If he had have stayed in power, Iraq would have remained a relative stable secular state, and everyone who died as a result of the conflict, that's about a million civillians, would have been spared. The countries infasctructure would not have been destroyed. Saddam would have ditched the dollar as he planned to, and it's likely that this move, coupled with the oil revenues would have led to increased propserity. He may have kept those revenues for himself, or he may have invested some of it into the country to maintain his power/stability. The revenues could have helped to buy things like medical supplies which the US sanctions were stopping from coming into the country.
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Hallelujah youve actually expressed an opinion.
I wish youd been willing to say what you think earlier, cos its getting kinda late over here now.
Ive acknowleged the massive fuckups in the postwar planning, i feel i should emphasise that again.
First, it was not a secular state, Saddam was a Sunni Muslim, though he utilised many Stalinist tactics during his reign (Stalinism was not secular)
If Saddam stayed in power, he would have eventually died leaving the country to be fought over between Uday and Qusay Hussein, who were about as sickening as it gets, im not prepared to let people like that own people and torture them. There would also have been a massive vaccuum in various parts of Iraq for its neighbours to invade, as its quite a big country.
If Saddam were still in power today, how do you think Iraq would look?