Reply #2: This apologist seems to be overlooking some rather obvious facts.

[Old and In the Way]

Should Reagan, Bush Sr, Rumsfield, Cheney, et al be indicted for enabling Hussein to become this tyrant? And why not have taken Hussein out when he was using our weapons to fight Iran as our proxy?

Hussein's fatal mistakes were (1) trusting George Bush Sr. when he told Saddam, thru April Gillispe that we'd take no side in his war with Kuwait....a war started because they were slant drilling into Iraqi oilfields. and (2) making plans to move his oil sales in Eurodollars.

Saddam was ruthless, no doubt. But let's see how many people die and how Iraq survives as a secular state before we write the final chapter of this very sordid story.