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"If you also want to be more accurate about [Saddam Hussein], as long as you don’t mess with him and his Ba’ath group, his people, you’re okay. Because if you ask Iraqis, even Shia, during his time the Iraqis were well-educated, very educated people Iraqis in all aspects of education. Science, medicine, math, poetry, literature. Really, they were [educated] under Saddam. But the ugly side of Saddam, once you try to approach anything related to politics or to try to change something in Iraq, you will be executed. Many horrible things, many nightmares will happen."