So you, me and everyone else agree Saddam is a dictator?
Yes.
OK, what kind of dictator? Benevolent, benign or malevolent?
I did not know there were three kinds of dictators. I am not a native speaker of English, but aren't "benign" and "malevolent" terms for tumours?
He is a dictator. One officially supported by the US for a long time, at that (I guess he was "benevolent" then, especially in the way he came to power by butchering all dissidents overnight).
I don't know what you are calling a "benevolent dictator", but it is irrelevant in any case because:
(1) Saddam is not the only dictator on Earth (Pakistan is run by that dictator with that bad wig - oops, he's a US ally!) So it is ludicrous to use "But he is a dictator!" as an argument to convince people the US has to invade Iraq.
(2) There is a concept called "Sovereignty" that has kept the world out of needless wars for a long time, and respect for which, personally, I would like to see continued, unlike your trigger happy cowboy of a president. It means you cannot very well go in and invade a country just because you don't like how it is run.
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