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Originally posted by JQ:
Comparing Hussein to Hitler is just insane. Saddam Hussein isn't even on the same scale as Hitler when it comes to dictators. Saddam Hussein was a bad guy, but comparing him to Hitler is the worst comparison since PETA compared the Holocaust to meat production.
Beyond insults, I don't see that you have any facts to back up your opinion.
Saddam Hussein, as I've said repeatedly, is estimated to have killed over 1 million of the current 24 million population of Iraq. I would call that significant genocide, limited only by the lack of WMD's to expand his empire. An expansion Hussein temporarily accomplished in Kuwait. And barring U.S. intervention in 1990-1991, Hussein was poised to conquer the rest of the Arabian peninsula.

Hussein had a genocide rate proportionate to Hitler's, in terms of ratio of the population he controlled.
Saddam's treatment of Kuwait's citizens, during the months it was occupied by Iraq, further supports my assertion.
One can easily see that to be the standard of treatment for any territory conquered by Iraq.

It was only U.S. intervention that prevented Saddam Hussein from spreading an empire across a good portion of the Arab world. And having his brand of rape, looting, torture, public hangings, and other cruelty spread across a much wider region.