Thanks. I think the reasons I listed are more objective than just kneejerking out "jealousy" and "inferior culture" on a keyboard, without any or minimal justification for the comments.

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Comparing Hussein to Hitler is just insane. Saddam Hussein isn't even on the same scale as Hitler when it comes to dictators. Saddam Hussein was a bad guy, but comparing him to Hitler is the worst comparison since PETA compared the Holocaust to meat production.
Saddam himself liked to think of himself as a parallel to Stalin, not Hitler.

I think in 1990 he was on the same level as a junior Hitler. Certainly if he'd had nukes, Iraq would now extend to Israel. By 2003, sanctions had crippled the country, and the army had never recovered after the Gulf War. Whatever his aspirations, he was no Hitler by the time the showdown came along. (Hitler didn't have to exchange food for oil to feed his people.)