Only the mindless left could even think these thoughts:
The war in Iraq is a “pure failure” that has left Iraqis in a worse state than when they lived under Saddam Hussein, former United Nations chief weapons inspector Hans Blix said in comments published Wednesday.
“Iraq is a pure failure,” Blix was quoted as saying in the Danish newspaper Politiken.[…]Blix said Iraq would have been better off if the war had not happened.”Saddam would still have been sitting in office. OK, that is negative and it would not have been joyful for the Iraqi people. But what we have gotten is undoubtedly worse,” he was quoted as saying.
and:
KING: Are we better off with Saddam gone?
MAHER: We are not better off. We were never better off because Saddam was actually a bulwark against terrorism. He would never have allowed al Qaeda in Iraq. And I know people say oh, yes, there was al Qaeda. Yes, there was a few al Qaeda in the northern part of the country, which he did not control.
KING: He didn’t like bin Laden, right?
MAHER: He hated bin Laden. So the world certainly is not better off without Saddam. And I don’t know if even Iraq is better off without Saddam.
You ask the people in Iraq now. Because you know, we’re running out of things that Saddam did that we don’t do like torture, rape. About the only one left is mass graves. So in a lot of ways we are Saddam except for one thing, he at least had control of his country.
While knowing this:
The court trying Saddam Hussein for genocide has heard testimony from Kurdish witnesses describing alleged chemical attacks on their villages.
Villagers spoke of their memories of Operation Anfal, a crackdown against Iraqi Kurds in the late 1980s.
They described a smell “like rotten apples” minutes after the bombings, comparing them to “Doomsday”.
[…]Jamal Sulaiman Qadir, 50, described approaching his village moments after four warplanes dropped chemical bombs on it.
“That day was like Doomsday. I could hear children crying for their fathers and women crying for their husbands. The bodies were piled up,” he said.
“Some belonged to children who were still clutching lollipops or Eid sweets because it was the last day of Ramadan.”
Saddam Hussein and six other defendants are charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity for a 1987-88 offensive against Iraq’s Kurdish population.
Prosecutors say some 180,000 people died during the Anfal offensive.
Only in the mind of a lefty would they believe that life under a dictator that gasses his own people is preferable to a Democracy.
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Maher is an idiot. His claim to fame is that he’s a comedian … albeit a very sick one. So why is he being asked to give an opinion? I have no idea since the only thing he’s expert at seems to be sick jokes … but I guess if you’re from the far left that would make him a credible prophet, eh?
Sometimes I wonder what alien planet they arrived from; then I remember they are all god’s children as well — we just don’t need to claim them as sibs do we? 😀