[Atlantic Friend]

Maybe I'm trying to put more sense in Saddam's head that there ever was. After some years of absolute power, most dictators usually lose any sense of reality, and so maybe he was really believing the tide would turn and bring him back to power.

Well, in that case he's loonier than the screwy squirrel. I doubt anybody would have welcomed his going back to power when the US Army had toppled him.

[Coop]

I doubt anybody would have welcomed his going back to power when the US Army had toppled him.

Many of the Ba'athists who lived lives of luxury would have. And it really isn't a question of welcoming. If you resist him regaining power, you and your family die.

No doubt he's an evil nutcase. He's burned his own oil wells, killed thousands upon thousands of his own people via execution and three wars, and dumped oil into the Persian Gulf his own country borders.