Saddam moved on Kewait, gassed his own ( but different ethic group ) Kurds, gassed and bioterrorized those of another Muslim sect, put a " hit " on his own son ( it didn't kill him; failed attempt ... just paralized him ), aides and abets al Qaeda members, rules ( if you care to call it that ) with an iron fist, kills anyone he even imagines is his enemy, has set up a cult of person, like Hitler, he looks back in history, and makes that his country's focus, holds the same kind of spectales as the Nazis and Hitler did, has " secret police squads ", manipulates his people ( jails, tortures, and / or kills them, if they don't act as he wants them to ), threatens our safety and the rest of the world's as well. I could go on ; however, maybe you should really do the scut work and find out for yourself. The similarities are there; you just don't know enough about them. :-)
Hey, I don't think that Saddam is a good guy, but where is the evidence that the administration is claiming that he has?