People didn't expect a wave of Wahhabism and daily suicide bombings fueled by that ideology, if not for that cancer removing Saddam would be something no one would miss.
"Wahhabism" (Hanbali fiqh) was invented in Iraq by this Arab "
Aḥmad bin Muḥammad bin Ḥanbal Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Shaybānī" who was born in Baghdad in the year 780 and who died in the same city in the year 855. So-called "Wahhabis" (Hanbalis) have existed in modern-day Iraq 12 times as long as the existence of the Iraqi state. Thats 1200 years approximately.
Suicide bombing (in connection to "Islamic" terrorism) was first used by Hezbollah and the Shia Islamist who rule Iraq today (Dawa Party).
Also it helps not to use fake bomb detectors for almost 1 decade. That's how much your leaders care about the people.
Anyway Saddam Hussein is irrelevant. He has been dead for 10 years now and not ruled for 13 years. So tell me have the incredibly incompetent and corrupt Iraqi Shia Arab elite and its political parties (militias in other words as well) who are loyal Mullah pets, done their job well enough, you think?
In 13 years time they have de facto destroyed/divided Iraq forever due to their incompetence and policies and wasted all the good years economically that could have changed Iraq and at least the next 1-2 generations for the better.
Anyway what to expect from people who largely escaped abroad and who cheered when foreign invaders (who caused immense damage to Iraq and the entire region) invaded their country?
Here is a Shia-Iraqi from Basra city in front of the camera said that he wants Daesh to come to Basra so that he joins them against the government of Abadi, notice no one slapped that guy at all.
Iraqis are fed up with the current Iran-backed government till the point they want to work with a terrorist group like Daesh, so I think they would rebuild the statue of Saddam if he were alive.
I do not understand Iraqis. The current generation have been too easily brainwashed by the mostly Shia clergy not to rise up/protest against the current Islamist-ruled government. Iraqis are sitting under a gold mine but most are dirt poor and do not even enjoy basic necessities such as constant electricity, clean water at all times, security, economic prosperity etc.
We have all been told that Iraq is a democracy now (although they continue to use a constitution drafted by foreigners) so why do they not remove those incompetent politicians? Well, their Mullah overlords (talking about the current leaders) do not want this to happen.
ISIS will continue to be present and similar movements as long as incompetent and corrupt Shia Islamists, many of whom have more loyalty to the Wilayat al-Faqih Mullah's next door, than Iraq, (Hadi Al-Amiri is a good example of this and countless of others) will rule and as long as Shia militia leaders responsible for untold crimes against the Iraqi Sunnis, are free men.
When the "Al-Zarqawi of the Shias" Abu Deraa is a free man, never punished by the Shia Islamists in power, despite being responsible for 1000's of deaths of civilians, and 1000's of other Abu Deraa's (like-minded) people are waking free and now joining the fight against ISIS (terrorists fighting against other terrorists), you cannot accept that Iraqi Sunni Arabs and other non-Shia Arab minorities will like those people.
This guy used to drill holes in peoples skulls and his group also made fake campaigns in Sunni neighborhoods across Iraq to donate blood and once Sunnis were in the ambulance donating blood they were never seen again.
There are 1000's of such Abu Deraas around walking as free men (protected by the Islamist government and Shia clergy - many are also hailed as heroes) while any Iraqi Sunni Arab public figure who just opposes some government policies, is declared as a "terrorist", persecuted or forced to flee the country.
Then cretins wonder why Iraq is a failed state.
Yet they cry about Saddam Hussein.
In 100 years time they will do the same when there will be no Iraq any longer as we know it today.
Having experienced ISIS rule will not change anything and people won't love the above people suddenly. The same was said 10 years ago when Al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia was around and Al-Zarqawi.
EDIT: No, during Saddam Shias were not any more persecuted than anyone else. There were more Shia Arab Ba'athis than the Sunni lot. However Saddam brutally cracked down upon all resistance from anyone. He even killed his son in law.
And yes the Iraqi Sunni Arab heartland was always more wealthy than the Shia Arab South but that was also the case before Iraq's founding and it has nothing to do with Saddam's policies. Today Southern Iraq remains the poorest area of Iraq as well and Shia majority slums such s Sadr City remain the poorest neighborhoods in Baghdad. That's after 13 years of Shia majority rule and dominance. So what will the excuse be now? Or despite living under an ocean of oil as is the case with Basra (second largest city in Iraq).
Even Fallujah after the American onslaught, was in a better state than many Southern cities.
Anyway the current incredibly incompetent regime cannot even prevent Kurds from stealing Iraqi land. Even in areas largely cleared of ISIS (Diyala) there is no attempt at regaining lost/occupied land.
So why should the Iraqi Sunni Arabs and other minorities (Kurds) not demand at least autonomy (Barzanistan already has it we know)? If the Iraqi government cannot protect its citizens against either ISIS or Peshmerga land grabbing why should they trust those incompetent clowns in power aided by the Wilayat al-Faqih Mullah's?
next strategy after what, a video of some person applying sarcasm?
LOL, he is basically saying that ISIS and the current incredibly incompetent Iraqi regime are as useless. It only confirms the point not the opposite.
You keep crying about the leadership in the GCC, Turkey and what not (never Al-Assad or the Mullah's) but when will you get the courage to criticize the most incompetent lot of them all, "your" own government?
All the failures are the work of the government that you support. It is the obligation of the state (government) to protect the country and its people. It is hardly news that every regime in the region is conspiring against each other and conflicts are neither a new thing. Past Iraqi regimes themselves were guilty of such policies in the region, under Saddam and not under Saddam. I am willing to bet that you have family members who supported the invasion of Kuwait for instance or the war against Iran back when Iraq was much more powerful. Or during the 1960's and 1970's when Iraq tried to dominate the Arab world and export Ba'athism/support revolutions in monarchies and non-Ba'athi Arab states.
Now when you are the mercy of regional powers (excluding the US and to a smaller extent Russia lately) such as KSA, Turkey and Iran, it is no fun.
Same with the Al-Assad that you shamelessly support (given his key role in destabilizing Iraq post 2003) let alone his useless father's support for the Mullah's against Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war. He does not find much things funny any longer.
