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What Saddam Hussein’s daughter has to say about Donald Trump might surprise you
Raghad Saddam Hussein (Image source: CNN)

What Saddam Hussein’s daughter has to say about Donald Trump might surprise you

As if the 2016 election and its aftermath couldn't get any more bizarre, now former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's daughter is praising President-elect Donald Trump as a man with "a high level of political sensibility."

In an interview with CNN that was published Thursday, Raghad Saddam Hussein dissed outgoing President Barack Obama and former President George W. Bush, suggesting Trump will be the commander in chief who is finally able to normalize relations between battle-ravaged Iraq and the United States.

"This man has just arrived to the leadership ... but from what is apparent, this man has a high level of political sensibility that is vastly different than the one who preceded him," she said. "He exposed the mistakes of the others, specifically in terms of Iraq, which means he is very aware of the mistakes made in Iraq and what happened to my father."

Saddam Hussein ruled Iraq from 1979, until his overthrow by U.S.-led forces in 2003. He was hanged in December 2006, when Raghad Saddam Hussein, with her sister and their children, watched her father being led to the gallows where he would be executed.

Though she watched the start of the execution, which was broadcast on state-run television, she never witnessed the actual hanging itself. Iraqi TV didn't broadcast the full execution, but video surfaced a few hours after the moment of death.

"I never saw that moment, and I refuse to see it," Raghdad Saddam Hussein told CNN on the 10th anniversary of her dad's gruesome execution. "[T]he details of his death are ugly and painful — but it's an honorable death."

"I don't think he would have gone in a death smaller than this," she continued. "It was a death that brought pride to me, my children, my sisters and their children, to all those who love him and have a place for him in their heart."

Naturally, the fallen dictator's daughter blames the U.S. for the instability in her home country, but seems open to the idea of a Trump administration.

Since the start of his campaign, Trump has claimed he was against the Iraq War from the beginning. However, that is a blatant falsehood, given there is easily accessible proof to the contrary.

Raghad Saddam Hussein might also have an affinity for the billionaire businessman because he suggested in July that maybe the U.S. should not have dethroned Saddam Hussein, despite his violent crimes against human rights.

"He was a bad guy — really bad guy. But you know what he did well? He killed terrorists," Trump said during a campaign rally in Raleigh, North Carolina. "He did that so good. They didn't read them the rights. They didn't talk. They were terrorists. Over. Today, Iraq is Harvard for terrorism."

Raghdad Saddam Hussein is currently living in Jordan, where she escaped to after fleeing Iraq in 2003 at the start of the invasion. Today, the Iraqi government is accusing her of supporting ISIS, which she denies.

"Of course I don't have any relations to this group [ISIS] and other extremist groups," she said. "Moreover, the family's ideology has no similarities to that of extremist groups."

"As a proof to this," she added, "these groups only became powerful in Iraq after we left the country and our rule ended."

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