“Yet Saddam was neither a jihadist as well as a counter weight to Iran. Good thinking, good strategy, so subtle!”
Saddam was a major sponsor of terror activities both among his own people and Palestinian organizations. It was more than paying the families of suicide murderers for the deeds. His successful dabbling with Biological and Chemical Weapons made him serious danger to the US and Israel and any who crossed the Islamists.
The Iraqi insurgency displayed the plans of Saddam and the brutality of both the Baathists and Al Q. So whether or not you or I thought Saddam was a Jihadist, does not matter, the folks who followed him did and the folks who took his money for terror did not and the folks who would benefit from his slipping the bonds of UN Sanctions would not have worried if Saddam was a true jihadist or not.
