As Torie Clarke said last March, there are, and have been, reams and reams and reams of documents available to the press and public proving Saddam's atrocities. Have been for years.
According to Paul Wolfowitz, our guys have already recovered more post-war documents than they recovered post-WWII, pre-Nuremburg trial.
It will be many years before we know the extent of his crimes. We know enough now to count him in the company of the cruelest leaders in history.
It could only be a conscious choice of the press to cover them up. Again, see the links at #22.
Repeat the truth enough times...