Anonymous@208121

That simply isn't true. Or most accurately, Saddam was not as bad as the US propaganda machine made him out to be. Saddam was always at the mercy of the US. Meaning he could be taken from power in a moments notice.

You have to remember. If we blame Saddam for keeping the kurds and shia in line by means of torture (Saddam did live mostly on myth and tales to prop him up) that you would be blaming him for doing the the US government wanted and instructed him to do.

That should not be a revelation. You do know that the shia are the same strand of islam as Iran. And the clerics that Iraqi shia listen to are Iranian. Saddam stabilized the region be not allowing shia (Iraqi and Iranian) to control 50% of the worlds oil supply.

That is why allowing the shia to control Iraq now is a blunder on Bush's part. The shia have no reason to share with sunnis. Sunnis remember all too well how shia tortured them earlier this century.

Muslim clerics will pressure the shia to be annexed to Iran very soon. Hence a civil war. And possibly US intervention on behalf of the "insurgents" we are currently fighting.