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Originally posted by Dragonlich
By the way, given the history of Saddam's rise to power (military coup), I really don't think he's in a position to claim the new government and judicial system are illegal.
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I agree that all dictatorships are illegal regimes (or depending how you define "illegal"), but earlier in this thread an argument where UN recognition was used as a proof of legitimity of the new Iraqi government, so if one sees it like that, Saddam regime was also legal (correct me if I'm wrong). Also during the Iran-Iraq war USA condemned Iran for an attempt of eliminating "the legitimate government of neighboring Iraq" - at least if the circulated draft press release was published - National Security Archive isn't very specific about this. So in this sense Saddam regime was "legitimate".