There is a stink about Donald Trump speaking well of Saddam Hussein, especially in regards to Saddam's ability to kill terrorists. This is also a reason why Trump holds that the Iraq War should never have been fought and has led to the rise of ISIS. Ditto the ousting of Muammar Gaddafi. He has a point.
Saddam Hussein was an evil, miserable human being but one could argue that the political situation was much better under his tyranny than it is now. That same case can be made for Gaddafi. We have toppled tyrants and now have terrorist havens and a refugee crisis that is contributing to a crackup of the European Union. Seeing how it turned out, how many politicians would have preferred to stick with the status quo ante? Donald Trump has declared that, as bad as Saddam was, he was better than what we've got now.
Of course, though Trump has made this point repeatedly, it has only made big news lately because the propaganda arm of the Democratic Party needs to report about something other than 'Crooked Hillary' and the rigged system that let her skate. Interestingly, Hillary voted to invade Iraq and was the architect of Libya. "We came, we saw, he died!" The anti-war crowd, which has been in the Democratic camp since Vietnam, may be wooed by a comparatively dovish Trump.
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