Should America Have Saddam Hussein Stay in Power?

Should America have left well enough alone pertaining to Saddam Hussein?

I mean, if we had left Hussein alone there might not be as much ... chaos?

If the West had maintained the Islamofascist status quo, might there had been an effective foil to psycho-Islamofascist Shi'ite Iran?

Read this from Media Lies:

I'm going to have to rethink....
....my understanding of the "insurgency". Previously I thought that many of the beheadings and executions (shot in the back of the head) were the work of the Ba'athists and the suicide missions were almost exclusively the province of the "foreign fighters" (meaning Al Qaeda), but this section of the Iraq Perspectives Project report (page 71) has me rethinking that calculus.

The Fedayeen Saddam also took part in the regime's terrorism operations, which they conducted inside Iraq, and at least planned for attacks in major Western cities. In a document dated May 1999, Uday Hussein ordered preparations for "special operations, assassinations, and bombings, for the centers and traitor symbols in London, Iran and the self-ruled areas (Kurdistan)."48

Other captured documents indicated that preparations for a regime-directed wave of terror, codenamed "Blessed July," against targets outside of Iraq were well underway. Evidence exists that the Fedayeen Saddam had already conducted a number of early operations, particularly against the Kurds and Shi'a. Evidence supporting this contention comes in a letter to Uday Hussein from a Fedayeen Saddam widow who requested help to secure her husband's pension benefits. According to the letter, her husband, a longtime operative with the security services, had died in July 2000 carrying out a suicide operation for the Fedayeen Saddam against Kurdish opposition parties.49

In the final months before OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM, the Fedayeen Saddam actively began planning operations against the Coalition, including suicide missions aimed at crossing into Kuwait to "explode volcanoes under the feet of the invaders," if Coalition forces were to reach Baghdad.50 While it appears that they never crossed into Kuwait, a number of Fedayeen Saddam suicide attacks did take place during the war.

Given this information, I think it's likely that the numbers being given for Al Qaeda in Iraq (in the hundreds to low thousands) are likely correct. This means that much of the "insurgency" is made up of former Ba'athists and Fedayeen Saddam "dead-enders" who continue to do what they've been doing in Iraq for a number of years — slaughter their fellow citizens.

What a sad legacy Saddam has left his people.

I find it totally amazing that the left say taking Saddam Hussein out was a bad war. It there is anything bad it is only that we have not supplied our troops well enough to finish the job. Man, Hussein and his boys were an evil lot. They were hegemons and did not even represent the majority of its own citizens. Leftists have called Israel an apartheid state which is foolish, for it is a democracy in which the majority rules and the law abiding minority is not oppressed. Hussein was a genocidal butcher that ruled as with a bloody iron-fist murdering the majority that opposed the Baathist regime. Now that is apartheid!