Trump: Middle East Would Be More Stable With Hussein, Gadhafi

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, when asked if he believes the Middle East would be better today if Moammar Gadhafi of Libya and Saddam Hussein of Iraq were still in power, responded, "It's not even a contest."

"You can make the case, if you look at Libya, look at what we did there — it's a mess — if you look at Saddam Hussein with Iraq, look what we did there — it's a mess," the real-estate mogul said in an interview with Chuck Todd on "Meet the Press."

Trump related the situations in both countries with what is currently happening in Syria and seemed to endorse a stronger President Bashar Assad, while admitting that he is "probably a bad guy." 

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