Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald
Trump, who frequently criticises US foreign policy under President Barack Obama
and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, has praised former Iraqi
president Saddam Hussein's ruthlessness.
"Saddam
Hussein was a bad guy, right? But you know what he did well? He killed
terrorists. He did that so good," Trump told a campaign rally on Tuesday
night in Raleigh, North Carolina.
"They
didn't read the rights, they didn't talk. They were a terrorist, it was
over."
Trump
has previously said the world would be "100 per cent better" if
dictators like Hussein and Libya's Muammar Gaddafi were still in power. Prior
to the US invasion, Iraq was listed by the US as a state sponsor of terrorism.
Jake
Sullivan, a Clinton senior policy adviser, said Trump's "praise for brutal
strongmen seemingly knows no bounds".
Sullivan
said such comments "demonstrate how dangerous he would be as
commander-in-chief and how unworthy he is of the office he seeks".
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