If perhaps you were wondering just how much Donald Trump is like some of the brutal dictators we’ve seen in recent decades–Muammar Gaddafi, Kim Jong Un, etc.–you need not wonder any longer. Turns out former Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein’s daughter says she greatly admires Trump and thinks her late father would have, too.
Raghad Saddam Hussein told CNN that she is pleased with Trump being elected and added that the President-elect has a “high level of political sensibility.” She added:
“This man has just arrived to the leadership … But from what is apparent, this man has a high level of political sensibility, that is vastly different than the one who preceded him. He exposed the mistakes of the others, specifically in terms of Iraq, which means he is very aware of the mistakes made in Iraq and what happened to my father.”
Uh, yeah, your father was hanged because he committed crimes against humanity, gassed his own people, invaded his neighbors, and was an overall nasty SOB. Granted, the last war was a mistake, but don’t expect many people to shed any tears for Saddam.
Let us not forget that during the 2016 campaign, as CNN points out:
“Trump said he opposed the war on Iraq, however he was publicly supportive of the invasion in interviews before and after the war. And while saying that Saddam Hussein ‘was a bad guy,’ Trump has praised the former Iraqi leader’s efficient killing of ‘terrorists.'”
Apparently when it comes to terrorists and dictators, it takes one to know one.
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