No confusion about it - it IS Hussein coddling.
I've never seen an antiwar liberal or a paleocon moron that wasn't ready, willing and eager to insert his or her opinion that a powermad lunatic dictator isn't a real threat. Of course, those same "brilliant" antiwar liberals don't have the responsibility to govern, nor do they have access to the materials that are seen by people who have to make the call. In other words, they want us to take as gospel their judgment that a madman and his sons are sane. It is further instructive that a large number of the people that expect us to respect their judgments on this get into riots, hit cops and turn over newspaper boxes (or at the very least, tolerate those who do) - so I wonder why their judgment on anything should be respected.
I don't know why the presence of a corrupt power monger makes you people fly into paroxysms of ass kissing.