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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
He was secular only to the extent he kept down the mullahs to keep himself in power.
But let's be honest, Ty. He played the muslim jihad card whenever and wherever convenient (e.g. paying off martyrs to kill Israelis, etc.)
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From San Francisco, he may look pretty Islamic, but he is exactly the sort of secular totalitarian leader that Al Qaeda is rebelling against. They care about us only because we are over there, defiling Saudi Arabia and supporting secular regimes in places like Egypt. Their aim is to overthrow regimes like Hussein's, and to bring back a very different form Islam -- the revival of the Caliphate. Hussein may have made some noises in the last few years to stay in power, but they weren't fooled.
Incidentally, Syria is very similarly situated, and has a similarly hostility to the Islamists. They were giving us good intel on Islamic terrorists for a while.
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And your buddy Atticus will remind you, that in the Arab world, the old adage "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" is a truism.
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If that's the sort of wisdom that our foreign policy is based on, I would hate to have to explain that to the parents of soldiers killed over there.
The 9/11 commission suggests that OBL at least tried that line of reasoning on Hussein, but it also says that he didn't buy it. Maybe he needed better Arab folk advice.
