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Blogs Cliopatria Saddam Is Hitler

Nov 16, 2006

Saddam Is Hitler

by Cliopatria

We are seeing history unfold, events that will shape the course of a country, the fate of a people and potentially the future of the region. Saddam Hussein is now taking his rightful place alongside Hitler, Stalin, Lenin, Ceausescu in the pantheon of failed brutal dictators, and the Iraqi people are well on their way to freedom.