So life was better under Saddam ?

Submitted by Timothy (United States), Feb 14, 2007 at 22:02

I will admit that there are a lot of things that were better for the Iraqi under Saddam. let's just put aside the mass murders and blah, blah, blah that Saddam committed against his people. We've all heard it before, it's the same old story that comes out of Muslim countries. .

Syed I respect your right to have a different opinion than me. But...................COME ON ! The things in Iraq that were better had NOTHING to do with Islam. But everything that is worse in Iraq now has EVERYTHING to do with Islam !

Saddam was a secular leader his idol was Joseph Stallin. Stallin considered religion a threat ! Saddam was once quoted as saying "I don't know why the Americans want me out of power. I'm the only thing holding back the Clerics". After the Iranian hostage inccident in 1979 Saddam arrested many Muslim clerics and tortured them because he was afraid the same thing would happen in Iraq that happen in Iran.

Christians were protected ( I should say better than in a lot of Muslim countries ) under Saddam. One of Saddam military commanders was a Catholic !!! Since Saddam was removed the typical mob mentality of Muslims has been unleashed. Christians are exiting Iraq in fear of their lifes, not because of the Americans or the Kurds or the Jews. Theyre leaving because the Muslims are threatening them because theyre not Muslim.

You need to wake up (or should i say Grow up). all the problems in the world are not the fault of Americans or nonMuslims. There's plenty of blame to go around for everybody. It's funny, but when Christians were violent they were not following the true teachings of Jesus. Once they started returning to the true message of Jesus they became peaceful. When Muslims strayed from the teachings of Mohammed they were less violent, but now that theyre returning to the true teachings of Islam, their level of violence and intolerance is exceeding the history of any other culture in history.

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