I’m not surprised when I see far left folks make this claim, but I am still surprised when someone like Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) tells Jim Lehrer that Iraq was better off under Saddam Hussein,
Are we better… are the Iraqis better off that we went in there, and are we better off? And in both cases I cannot answer yes.
Sen. Pat Robertson (R-Kansas) responds a bit later in the interview saying,
But, you know, I don’t know about Iraq being better off or worse off. Now we’re trying to achieve stability, and there is a central nervous system, Jihadist movement over there that’s very, very difficult, but we do have a new government. And I could tell you one thing for sure, the 500,000 people that Saddam Hussein murdered, we can’t ask them, but I think I know what the answer would be.
Maybe Rockefeller’s been watching too much “Farenheit 9/11” and thinks Iraq under Saddam was all about kids flying kites.
Source:
INTELLIGENCE FAILURES. News Hour, Transcript, July 9, 2004.