Originally Posted by cthulu23

No crystal ball was needed considering that Saddam was already a "jerkwad." Look, we can ignore American history and pretend that the US has always done the right thing with dictators or we can acknowledge that our government has a history of openly supporting butchers whenever it suits our political goals. You can't be all for political realism one moment (enemies enemy and all that) and then switch to the global good guy role. It just isn't honest. This was the point of my original post.