Assyria really set that standard
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Lol, all those ba'athist sons of whores need to be found and ended as well.
He was a thug who got killed by bigger thugs.
Way of the streets.
I regret what happened to Saddam, Iraq and the Iraqi people, but their fate was probably sealed way back in 1958 when the puppet monarchy was overthrown, the state adopted Arab nationalism/socialism, and gravitated towards the USSR. Such moves are unacceptable; the young state of Iraq, a British imperial fabrication, did not have the right to become independent. The empire took awhile to strike back, but it did. It always does. Saddam was just used, abused, then hanged. It's the sad story of the death of a nation.
He hated Persians and Kurds, but at least he didn't allow theological speculations to cloud his judgment and he kept his country in line.
He kept your little pets, those satanic Yezidis in check too:
http://freebeacon.com/national-secur...addam-hussein/