Reply #149: True, but that has nothing to do with what I was responding to,

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which was the notion that there is no evidence for widespread human rights violations under Saddam.

Just twenty years ago, liberals were loudly condemning Saddam's brutality, while Reagan and Co. were sending him weapons, training his nuclear scientists, etc. Now that the conservatives have turned on their old buddy, some liberals feel a compulsion to defend him. That's kneejerk thinking at its worst. Is it really so hard to grasp that Bush and Saddam are both very bad men?