‘Iraqis want Saddam to run for election’

Could be as few as two Baathists for all I know.

Imagine if you were a Sunni under Saddam and life was O.K., not great but livable (you don't give a crap about the Kurds or Shiites) and then along comes the US and blows the Sh**t out of your country, kills your friends and relatives and pretty well makes a bad situation a hell of alot worse. Saddam aint looking so bad anymore

Yep I believe it, that's what it's come to. When you know Saddam looks better than you, you've got some explaining to do.

Saddam didn't manage to kill anywhere near as many of them than have
died under the tender protective care of the "Coalition for Democracy".

(c) serviceable medical facilities; and (d) civil calm and general order. Iraq is NOT better off under US rule. It's an undisputed fact. I guarantee in a free, fair, country-wide election, saddam would win.

Based upon what? The 75% of the country that aren't Sunni hate Saddam. Hell, even some of the Sunnis hate Saddam (he wasn't universally nice to them.)

And even if Saddam were to somehow be elected at this point, the violence wouldn't stop. He's lost the network of operatives that kept him in power. He was barely keeping a lid on the racial tensions in Iraq before the war, and you can't put that genie back into the box just by electin Saddam.

If what you meant to say is that, given the choice between "the way things used to be" and "the way things are now" then I think the former would probably win. But that option doesn't exist any more.

Yes, the choice should probably be the way things used to be versus the way things are now. However, I believe the US now is hated as much or more as saddam. They knew he was a murdering despot. We came in liberator's clothing. It is painfully obvious to EVERYONE that our intentions were not entirely honorable and our rationale was a sack of lies. And no longer can the traditional battle/religious lines be drawn between Shia and Sunni. Remember the neocons thought they could never be united and that would be a key to our maintaining power. Boy were they wrong. The Shias and Sunnis have been able to agree and unite somewhat behind one common cause: the hatred against the American imperialistic invaders.

And I never said the violence would stop. You're right, that genie was not only let out of the bottle, the bottle was smashed against a brick wall.

I say let saddam run. I think we'd all be shocked.

He's probably the first or second most hated man in the country (Bush being the other.) A toad could run against him and win.

Who liked Saddam so much...

Such spinning from BushCo would shake the very planet off its orbit and into the sun.

...compared to what Bushco "democracy" has given them. Karl Rove would launch "Torturing Dictators for Truth" to swiftboat him!!

:evilgrin:

:eyes:

... anyone in this misadministration if they would allow SH to be on ANY future Iraqi ballot.

:rofl:

run a campaign when you are either a) in the docket or b) swingin' from a yardarm, which is where I think ol' Saddam will be in about 6 months or so.

A West Bank Palestinean won a local election in Israel's West Bank last weekend. He was on the ballot even though he's serving a life sentence. This is from al-Jazeera's web page:


http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/A37509B7-B895-485E-A8EE-70C288F7660F.htm

I'm not endorsing the Saddam Hussein for Parliament campaign quite yet, but wouldn't it be interesting if he were allowed to run?

promise regular electrical service ....

a better administrator for Iraqis than the chimpenführer!!

One thing I've learned from this whole charade is that the US just isn't very good at being opressively autocratic. Well, not as good as Saddam, anyway.