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Originally posted by Maeglamor

[color=66ff00]Replace one nasty piece of work that keeps the country in a relatively stable form to maintain his leadership (Hussein) with an army of religious goons that don't give a damn about the population and are willing to tear the place to ribbons?

That sounds like a great idea.
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funny how of people feel the same way, trade one bastard for a cple thousand fanatics who wouldnt dare fugk with saddam in iraq but would gladly fugk with bush and our boys.......... (well wish bush would be in a humvee instead of osme of our troops, we'd all feel better then!)!

[Kosh]

They wouldn't screw with Saddam because he still was in charge was a muslim country (and he had really good security too, although they were pretty brutal). Even though he was secular.

[aldo_14]

Moving the US Army into any muslim / arab country is effectively painting a bullseye upon them.  It doesn't really matter who is ousted to do so; in a sense it's almost a diversionary tactic - they're shifting every mobile terrorist in the Arab world to Iraq rather than, say, them flying off to a western nation and blowing up stuff there.

(of course, there's a difference between Arab regional terrorists and 'international' terrorists anyways)

Saddam was simply not a worthwhile target for any terrorists; he set himself up nicely by increasing the Islamic influence upon secular Iraq (IIRC he was introducing Shariah law, for example) to try and win Muslim nations support, and was also an enemy of the US (so anyone trying to oust him ran the risk of looking like they were helping the US).