Quote Originally Posted by Rank amateur View Post
A paranoid psychopathic sadistic one. Anyone trying to replace Saddam with Islamist would've been tortured and killed. To suggest otherwise is to suggest Saddam "wasn't that bad" that he actually believed in a cause and wasn't just out for himself.

Steve Blair is correct. That's not what I was suggesting (but I do see how it could be read that way). To be explicit, Saddam was a rank hypocrite who used Islam as a tool to further his own ambitions.