Seems these are more freshly killed than that. At least the last million or so.
I wasn't for his rape and torture rooms or his jailing of children either.
It is not uncommon for America or other countries to make allies with people because of common enemies.
I remember we sided with Iraq because we had the other cult society Iran and at the time, it seems a better strategy to save tens of thousands of American lives by letting Iraq fight Iran in their war rather than us.
On rare occasions after an alliance, a few dictators went postal. Saddam, Castro and Bin Laden are but a few examples of such, but compared to the few bad people who turned later, we had far more life long allies.
Were you able to find any links to the Kuwait invasion rumor?