Sure.
Here's Saddam Hussein's CV:
- The invasion of two sovereign nations (Iran, Kuwait)
- The annexation of one sovereign nation (Kuwait)
- The murder of up to a million Iraqis
- Genocide (the Al-Anfal Campaign alone killed 50,000-100,000 Kurds)
- Total control of the media
- Prohibition of satellite dishes (people who broke this law faced the death penalty)
- The Kuwaiti oil fires, which devastated regional air quality, causing respiratory problems for citizens of Kuwait and nearby countries
- The accompanying oil spill into the Persian Gulf, which was arguably one of the worst man-made natural disasters in history
- Sponsorship of terrorism (sending money to families of suicide bombers in Israel/Palestine)
- Hotly debated but very possible connections with Zarqawi, a high-ranking al-Qaeda officer
People like to suggest, nebulously and without ever citing real evidence, that people in the Middle East and particularly in Iraq have come to frown, across the board, upon the Iraq War. The Kurds, over 30 million of whom live in the region without a country to call their own, disagree:
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http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/06/10-years-after-the-fall-of-saddam-how-do-iraqis-look-back-on-the-war/277362/-
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/03/the-iraq-war-was-a-good-idea-if-you-ask-the-kurds/274196/-
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/mar/11/not-forgotten-kurd-perspective-on-iraq-warSince the removal of Hussein, Iraqi Kurdistan has blossomed as a state effectively independent of and no longer persecuted by the government in Baghdad.