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Originally Posted by ItalianStereotype
Max, I expect more of you than this. there's simply no comparison between the occupation body count and that of Saddam's thirty year dictatorship. the IBC, which I think is overestimating, is currently at a minimum of 23,000. in a single campaign, Saddam murdered 100,000. paltry my ass.
as much as we're hated by some Iraqis, I'm sure we'd be more warmly welcomed than Saddam any day of the week.
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I think his overall point could be compared to the way guys like Stalin often still poll well in the countries they terrorized, particularly during times of turmoil and economic instability. These people offered fear, murder, and terror, but they also offered a twisted form of stability and normalcy that people can perhaps get "nostalgic" over.