Saddam Hussein was one of those dictators who contributed loads of money to Islamic terrorist groups and set up training camps in Iraq for them. He allowed Al-Zarkawi and Al-Qaeda into parts of Iraq. He only demanded that they not try to challenge him. He also tried to have Bush I assassinated. He murdered over a million of his own people. And he invaded Kuwait. Other than those things, he was a wonderful dictator.
I never said he was a great guy or that I’d hire him to watch my horses. I said that he was effective in suppressing the crazies and that he was willing to kill people to get that job done, something he did with apparent relish. He did inflict horror on many people- but look what’s going on there now that the brutal leaders are gone.