Iraq needed Saddam?

And what about Yugoslavia and the way that it fell apart so horrifically badly (eg, outright genocide) after strong-man Tito died?And thinking it over this past year, I'm seeing Hitler's (not invoking Godwin's Law here) goal of "gathering in the Germans" as not really being so much a land-grab but rather a justifiable (in their eyes) reclamation of German territory that had been taken away from them without their consent less than two decades before (IOW, within the personal memory of most Germans alive then). Large parts of the German Empire in the east were taken to recreate Poland (also from Austria) and Czechoslovakia (the Sudetenland), both in 1918. That left many ethnic Germans as minorities in those new countries, which gave Hitler an excuse and a propaganda opportunity that he made full use of. Saddam Hussein used the same excuse to "return Kuwait to Iraq". When the Soviets gave the eastern part of Germany to Poland (so that they could keep the eastern part of Poland that they had conquered) in the late 40's, they made sure not to make the same mistake by expelling all Germans from the newly Polish territory, created a flood of displaced persons into Germany (a theme used in a number of German films, such as Das Schreckliche Mdchen ("The Nasty Girl")).Amazing how the arbitrary redrawing of the world's maps by France and England a century ago can have caused and still be causing us so many problems.