Funny to think how peaceful Iraq used to be. Relatively-speaking.
Does this mean Saddam's tyranny is vindicated?
The occasional gassing of a town. Yes. The odd extremist thrown into a sausage machine.
But in relative nasty terms, he was a lot better than Isis with its crucifictions, beheadings, genocides etc; and life was more peaceful than during the US conquest and insurgency.
Good grief. What an awful spectrum folks live along down there.
How naive we were.