Overthrowing Saddam Hussein was wrong says U.S. presidential candidate

(IraqiNews.com) on Tuesday, US presidential candidate of the Republican Party Rand Paul considered the ouster of the former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein as a wrong decision, stressing that the divisions between Sunni and Shia turned Iraq into a “vassal state” of Iran.

The British newspaper ‘The Observer’ quoted Paul during an interview in a Hebrew school in the U.S. city of Brooklyn, New York: “The overthrow of Saddam was a wrong decision because he was a bulwark against Iran.”

Paul added, according to the website, “I do not support a war with Iran over its nuclear program,” noting that “the divisions between Sunni and Shia have been exacerbated because of war,” adding that, “they turned Iraq into a “vassal state” of Iran; that which makes Iran much stronger than before.”

He continued that “the overthrow of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad would have the same effect.”