I am sorry I do not know of the Freeper you mentioned. The "conservative" division you speak of I think comes from a "religious" division rather than "political" division.
Old Saddam had plenty of opportunity from the reprieve given in the First Gulf War to become civilized and he refused. Appears that some of the supposed civilized nations of this world had no problem with old Saddam butchering his own and sending money, "OIL" money to the PLO families for payment of homicide bomber offspring. That action alone makes Saddam a terrorist regardless of who helped him hid his WMD's.
gcochran had a PH.D. in physics from one of the most prestigious universities in the world. He was intimately connected to weapons development and the defense community. His ancestors and relatives had fought in every American war since the Revolution.
He despised Bush and the neocons. He thought they were arrogant, fools, crazed...and that they were squandering America's treasure and reputation on trying to conquer a primitive people and culture which was being handled just fine with inspections and sanctions. And that the Administration was lying to American citizens about its reasons and intentions.
I didn't agree with him. I thought Muslims posed a much more serious threat and sanctions and inspections were failing...but I did not have to tell him about Saddam's nature or about the French, Russians and others. He knew all that stuff.