Certainly since the eyewitness accounts and reports at the time, the Saddam/plastic shredder story seems to have vanished down the memory-hole - accounts available now include the likes of reports of testimony at Saddam's trial in 2007, which mention
a meat grinder clogged with human flesh and a Wikipedia report on human rights violations during the years of Saddam's rule which include tell of
people lowered into vats of acid...
Clearly the poor man has been unfairly maligned in the eyes of the world.....