[VOA]

THE depraved brutality of Saddam Hussein's regime was revealed to the world yesterday
in a series of horrific discoveries.

"But, like dude, George W. Bush killed thousands in Texas with capital punishment."

just preparing for the inevitable response by "peace activists"

[Wilhelm Tell]

I'm sure some "peace" activists will say all this is made up by the Americans or maybe the Americans or British impersonated Baathist thugs and committed these crimes. There is a segment of the left that believes that the West is absolutely evil and anyone who opposes the West is thus automatically good. Their anti-Westernism causes them to whitewash Saddam (or Stalin, or Mao, or Pol Pot), just like some anti-Semites are driven to deny the Nazi's crimes. There is an amazing mental or moral defect in some people that causes them to embrace totalitarinism--ANY form of totalitarianism. I suspect that these pathetic people get a feeling of power from identifying with tyrants.