Yes, for two reasons.
(1) He was intimately involved in the decision to gas Halabja, but pretended to be just a diplomat.
(2) When the regime fell, he magically remembered that he had been baptized and claimed to be a Catholic Christian - despite the fact that he changed his name from Mikail Yohannan to a Muslim one and abandoned the Church when it was convenient.
The attempts of various Paulestinans and other conspiracists on these boards to exculpate and valorize him were particularly stomach-turning.
We are still living with and will not live to see the end of the stomach-churning results of the neocons who exculpated and valorized the war that erased Christianity from the Fertile Crescent.
This guy didn’t get high up in Saddam’s government by building schools and helping old ladies across the street. You only get that by helping evil. He was high enough in Saddam’s govt. that he could’ve ran at any time and gotten asylum in the states in exchange for information. He was high up enough to know a lot. He played the “I was just a diplomat” and “I’m just an old man” pretty well, it’s sad how many people here at FR are fooled.