Richard Dawkins Quotes
Saddam Hussein could have provided irreplaceable help to future historians of the Iran/Iraq war, of the invasion of Kuwait, and of the subsequent era of sanctions culminating in the current invasion.
Dawkins, Richard. "Saddam Hussein's execution was an act of vandalism." The Guardian, 31 Dec. 2006.
His balanced judgment and concern for American Casualties changed during the Iraq War over a decade later where he insisted on taking steady American casualties even after Saddam had been deposed and American troops were in the middle of a sectarian civil war.
After defeating the Iraqi Army in the field, bush allowed them to keep their arms, did not take Baghdad, and removed the allied troops. Saddam Hussein then attacked his own dissidents and murdered them with the helicopters that we let him keep and stayed in power. Bush’s son, two decades later, then started the 2nd Iraq war and deposed Saddam.
Richard Dawkins FRS FRSL is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was the University of Oxford's Professor for Public Understanding of Science from 1995 until 2008. An atheist, he is well known for his criticism of creationism and intelligent design.
