# Stop Bashing SADDAM!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 16, 2002, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-bashing-saddam/132502 "2002-10-16T13:38:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![welby1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@welby1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/welby1)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-bashing-saddam/132502/1 "2002-10-16T13:38:09Z")
It’s obvious he’s very popular with his people. [See?](http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/meast/10/16/iraq.elections.ap/index.html) Does the man actually beleive tha people will fall for this? It’s like a third grader saying “I’m getting a pony for my birthday because I WANT a pony for my birthday.” Or something like that. ---
**Author:** ![Gorgon\_Heap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f475e1/32.png) [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-bashing-saddam/132502/2 "2002-10-16T13:40:12Z")
Hey, settle down. We haven’t really “bashed” him in 11 years! Bwa-Ha-Ha! ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-bashing-saddam/132502/3 "2002-10-16T14:11:15Z")
What, you don’t believe he’s that popular? Maybe I’m wrong, but the last time an election occured, didn’t he garner 99 percent? Come on you cynics, he could be that popular… I mean, he writes his own books and stuff… Just because people are probably behind the voters with guns, doesn’t mean that they are intimidating the voters… ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-bashing-saddam/132502/4 "2002-10-16T14:12:56Z")
I always stay behing the voters with guns… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![roadrunner70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@roadrunner70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roadrunner70)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-bashing-saddam/132502/5 "2002-10-16T14:16:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Meatros \* > \*\* Maybe I’m wrong, but the last time an election occured, didn’t he garner 99 percent? > \*\* …and you know what happened to that 1%, don’t you? ---
**Author:** ![Obvious\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Obvious\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Obvious_Guy)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-bashing-saddam/132502/6 "2002-10-16T15:25:15Z")
Sample ballet: Saddam for president Please mark one: Yes Yes ---
**Author:** ![Pythagoras](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@Pythagoras](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pythagoras)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-bashing-saddam/132502/7 "2002-10-16T16:04:13Z")
I demand a recount! I clearly thought I had a chance being elected Iraq’s president! Hanging chads!! Hanging Chad!! \ \ \ ---
**Author:** ![minty\_green](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@minty\_green](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minty_green)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-bashing-saddam/132502/8 "2002-10-16T16:04:25Z")
:visualizing Saddam Hussein in in dancing tights: ---
**Author:** ![Journeyman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/779978/32.png) [@Journeyman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Journeyman)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-bashing-saddam/132502/9 "2002-10-16T20:56:05Z")
I thought The Onion had taken over CNN for a second. That is mind-boggling. ---
**Author:** ![SpaceGhostofArrakis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@SpaceGhostofArrakis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpaceGhostofArrakis)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-bashing-saddam/132502/10 "2002-10-16T21:06:11Z")
Wow…he really _is_ that stupid! ---
**Author:** ![Largo62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@Largo62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Largo62)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-bashing-saddam/132502/11 "2002-10-16T21:14:55Z")
Leno had it right. At an Iraqi polling place there are two boxes. The voter places a “yes” vote in one box, or a soldier places the voter in the other box. Can Ibrahim be that simple minded? Can he really expect that people, _any_ people will believe that an entire population anywhere in the world thinks with a single mind? My head hurts! * * * Geezer Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. – P. J. O’Rourke ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-bashing-saddam/132502/12 "2002-10-16T21:18:49Z")
> [@](#): > > Can he really expect that people, any people will believe that an entire population anywhere in the world thinks with a single mind? Well, judging by some of the posts in the Middle East threads, that seems to be what some Dopers think. This is nothing new. Stalin used to pull the same “election” stunts. ---
**Author:** ![Bromley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4da419/32.png) [@Bromley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bromley)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-bashing-saddam/132502/13 "2002-10-16T21:59:09Z")
Having read that CNN article, I was surprised that the voter turn-out was so low. I’d have been pushing in wads of votes to “represent my family” (aka show how loyal I was and how little I needed a beating or worse). Still, given the trend, 101% is something for him to aim for when he’s 71 (assuming he lives that long 😉 ). ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-bashing-saddam/132502/14 "2002-10-16T22:01:37Z")
He’s evil, I tells ya! Kennedy level Evil! ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-bashing-saddam/132502/15 "2002-10-16T23:14:31Z")
Did anyone else see the “news” footage of people celebrating the election results? I’m like…uh…Did you honestly think he would lose? Not to mention, I haven’t seen anyone look more forced since the last time I had sex… (I’m just kidding on that last point…) ---
**Author:** ![DeadlyAccurate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2002, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-bashing-saddam/132502/16 "2002-10-17T15:48:44Z")
I saw a rally by the Iraqi women and they looked so…sad I guess is the word I’m looking for. Most didn’t look like they wanted to be there or were happy to be spouting the words they were.