A Democratic congressional candidate believes the Taliban are in Iraq and that Saddam Hussein gassing his own people was good for Middle Eastern stability.
"Fallujah is now in the Taliban's hands," Alabama Democratic congressional candidate Jesse T. Smith said in a local radio interview. "Fallujah was in Saddam Hussein's hands and Saddam Hussein was not connected to the Taliban. I just say that, I like to make that distinction because ... I feel that if we had not gone into Iraq, there's a lot of things around the world that would not be going on."
Smith added Saddam Hussein's brutal crackdowns on his own people kept the Middle East stable.
"You know that tyrant, that tyrant was needed in that area," he said in the interview. "Saddam Hussein was known ... he would, he would gonna throw some gas on his people. He did that to the Iranians. So, they knew he was a tyrant. Sometimes you have necessary evils and I think for that area he was a necessary evil. And once he was removed, we see what's going on now."
Smith, who is running against Republican Rep. Mike Rogers previously made waves in August for saying Republicans are worse than ISIS.
"The greatest country on earth is being bullied from within. Actions of Republicans in congress are worse than #ISIL," he wrote on his Twitter feed.
Smith is two-tour veteran of Iraq.