Yes, actually they did.
Don't let a legal technical term confuse the issue. The Saddam govt. was recognized as legal by the international community.
This has nothing to do with the fact that the government was evil.
I am confused about nothing, I have read and heard all of the pope's and his surrogates comments on Iraq, Afganastan, the WOT, terrorism, Israel, Palestinians, for the last decades.
His positions are very clear, and I disagree with him, as I would any man who held his views.