contrary to what the propaganda machines have spun up, sad-man wasnt all that bad for a brutal dictator. He was responsible for the huge increase in education and health care in Iraq, nationalizing the oil industry which led to record profits, and while he stole alot of it for himself, there was great investment in infastructure and the economy making it the most propsperous, literate, and educated middle eastern country aside from israel. Sure, he was brutal against his enemies, but the vast majority of iraqis had nothing to fear from his rule and most of the clamp-downs came only after the repressive sanctions were imposed by the US and others. As has recently been brought up, we were bombing them for the past 10 years.