Donald Trump lauded former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein on Tuesday for efficiently killing terrorists despite the USA listing Iraq as a state sponsor of terrorism during his rule. “You know what he did well?” he asked a campaign crowd in Raleigh, North Carolina, on Tuesday night. “He killed terrorists.” Trump, who has previously called the Iraq War “one of the worst decisions in the history of the country”, added that Iraq is now “Harvard for terrorists”. They didn’t talk. They were a terrorist, it was over. “Whether you agreed or d…”
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Trump, who has criticized President George W. Bush’s decision to invade Iraq again in 2003, spoke just hours after the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced it would not seek to indict Clinton but said the former secretary of State acted carelessly in handling classified information on a private email server. “Saddam Hussein was a bad guy”, Mr Ryan said on Fox News.
Sens. John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of SC, partners among Republican congressional critics of Obama administration foreign policy, carried out a fact-check on Trump’s national security statements earlier this year at a Capitol Hill hearing.
Hillary Clinton’s campaign jumped on Trump’s comments, noting how “dangerous” the Republican candidate would be in the White House.
Iraq under Hussein’s leadership was one of seven nations the State Department listed as a state sponsor of terrorism. “It was over. Today, Iraq is Harvard for terrorism”, he said.
Additionally, in October 2015, he told CNN’s Jake Tapper that the world would be a better place if Hussein and Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi were still in power.
“Donald Trump’s praise for brutal strongmen seemingly knows no bounds. He committed genocides against his people and eventually Iraq had up to 250 mass graves spread around in the country”.
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On this subject, Trump has seemed to lament the constitutional protections of the US justice system even while overstating their use when it comes to terrorists. No one read Osama bin Laden his rights when USA forces burst into his compound and killed him.
