Diabolical World Leader thoughts

[badcompany]

Originally Posted by Old School TV

I think UM featuring Saddam Hussein as a "Diabolical mind" in the heart of the middle east is like giving out speeding tickets in the indy 500. The fact is the majority of the middle east has been ruled by ruthless despots, monarchs, and military dictators for hundreds of years. There are others as Ayatollah Khomeini, Arafat, and Khadofi that have blood in their hands. Even the alleged "democratic" egypt is led by a dictator. In the UM feature, we see the dead kurdish people who were killed by Hussein. But the Kurds have a bloodthirsty history with Turkey. Moreover, they are known for honor killings against women. They recently stoned to death 17-year old Kurdish lady for commiting the heinous crime of dating a sunni. They also mention his brutal war with his "nice" persian Iranian neighbors. Those are same people that took an american embassy hostage. I wonder if there was any blood lost when the Iranian islamic revolution took power?

I think Pol Pot runs circles around Saddam as the diabolical mind of modern times. He is the same class as Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. Vietnamese refugees even have stated "Pol Pot makes Ho Chi Minh look like a puppy in comparison." Estimates vary from 25 to 40 percent of the cambodian population was exterminated by him. Watch the film The killing fields for more info. Many who escaped the death camps were so traumatized that they died in their sleep. This inspired Wes Craven to write the Nightmare Elm Street films. He read the articles and couldn't believe that healthy people died where nothing wrong was found in the autopsies. Craven figured maybe something in their dreams killed them and created Freddy. The real person in their dream was Pol Pot.

Well of all of those despots I think Saddam was one of the weirder ones and unlike Qaddafi it was in a bad way. Yeah Iran might not have been "nice" but Saddam did invade them unprovoked. In the mid 1970s Saddam and the Shah signed an agreement that ended tensions between the two countries (they hadn't been in all out war but very near it) after the 1979 Islamic Revolution there was a famous moment on Iraqi TV where Saddam lit the treaty on fire signifying that it was now null and void. And obviously shortly after that he invaded Iran. After the war Saddam had a statue of himself made out of captured Iranian helmets. To me that's a diabolical mind.

All of that being said, Saddam is, even today the second most popular leader in the Arab world after the late Gamal Nasser.

[MegtheEgg86]

I feel like the comparison between serial killers such as Ted Bundy and a dictator like Saddam Hussein is extremely similar--and as troublesome--to lumping organized crime bosses and hitmen into the "serial killer" category. It doesn't fit. While certain personality disorders, mental illnesses, or other such things may occur in each group as the segment seemed to suggest, the homicidal motivations are fundamentally quite different.