>>>>No, they were Islamic. Different factions of Islam, but still overall Islamic.
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>>>As a state. I don't remember president Hussein allowing any ayatollahs to rule the country and its courts.
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>>Methinks that in the time of Saddam, Iraq was governed by sunnites, whereas "ayatollahs" are characteristic of shiites.
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>Well doesn't that only bolster the idea that though "Islamic" by culture/religion, the country of Iraq was NOT under judicial control of 'Sharia Law'?

True. It was under judicial control of 'whim'.