ERBIL, Kurdistan Region—Ten years after his death, Saddam Hussein is a top news story, trending on Twitter thanks to American Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
“Saddam Hussein was a bad guy, right?” Trump asked, speaking at a campaign rally on Tuesday in North Carolina. “But you know what he did well? He killed terrorists. He did that so good.”
This is not the first time Trump has seemingly praised Hussein. He had previously been on record saying that the world would be “100 percent better” if dictators like Hussein and Moammar Gadhafi had not been removed from power.
The campaign team of Hillary Clinton, frontrunner in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, responded to Trump’s comments. “Donald Trump’s praise for brutal strongmen seemingly knows no bounds,” said Jake Sullivan, Clinton’s senior policy advisor. Trump’s comments “demonstrate how dangerous he would be as Commander-in-Chief and how unworthy he is of the office he seeks.”
An estimated 50,000 to 182,000 Kurds were killed during Hussein’s genocidal Anfal campaign and more than one million were displaced as Iraqi security forces destroyed thousands of Kurdish villages.
Americans go to the polls in November.
“Saddam Hussein was a bad guy, right?” Trump asked, speaking at a campaign rally on Tuesday in North Carolina. “But you know what he did well? He killed terrorists. He did that so good.”
This is not the first time Trump has seemingly praised Hussein. He had previously been on record saying that the world would be “100 percent better” if dictators like Hussein and Moammar Gadhafi had not been removed from power.
The campaign team of Hillary Clinton, frontrunner in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, responded to Trump’s comments. “Donald Trump’s praise for brutal strongmen seemingly knows no bounds,” said Jake Sullivan, Clinton’s senior policy advisor. Trump’s comments “demonstrate how dangerous he would be as Commander-in-Chief and how unworthy he is of the office he seeks.”
An estimated 50,000 to 182,000 Kurds were killed during Hussein’s genocidal Anfal campaign and more than one million were displaced as Iraqi security forces destroyed thousands of Kurdish villages.
Americans go to the polls in November.
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