[TheRealThing]

This would have been an easy race to win for a decent, authentic Republican candidate. Trump is the most unpopular presidential candidate in history and he is and will continue to humiliate the Republican Party.

Even today, with the spotlight on Hillary Clinton's crimes and gross negligence, he found time to praise Saddam Hussein as a great force against terrorism. What Trump's brilliant analysis left out, of course, is that Hussein was a terrorist who murdered Iraqi citizens by the thousands and threatened to assassinate former President George H. W. Bush.

The old adage that any publicity is good publicity may work for a reality TV star, but it does not play well for a presidential candidate. Instead of keeping the focus on the second most unpopular presidential candidate in history for a full day, Trump could not resist making another controversial statement to compete for news coverage. Just the latest blunder by the presumptive Republican nominee who does not really seem committed to winning this election.

The Washington Post huh? All Trump is saying is that though these guys were thugs, Saddam, Muammar al-Gaddafi, and all the rest, they kept all the hatred and murder under relative control and the US did not necessarily need to be over there continually with hundreds of thousands of troops in an effort to keep things at no greater than a slow boil. The foreign policy term for that was "Stability in the Region," and if we've all hear it once, we've hear it a hundred times.

Killing off or running off these admitted thugs, all except perhaps Anwar Sadat who was decent by Saddam's standard, was the equivalent of pouring gas on a fire. And that fire is presently a great threat to the entire planet. All of what you just said and the source you used is straight out of the DNC. The Arab Spring, Hillary et-al liked to call it.