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"While their methods are different, bin Laden and Hussein are power-hungry madmen who seek domination at any cost."

Thanks to Mark Levin for a great article, as usual.

Things will continue to deteriorate in this country until the liberals in Congress wake up. After reading the article today in World Net Daily about the group of Syrians who entered the USA the other day to attend flight school, I hope Daschle & company will reflect on their own demise.

Iraq's Saddam Hussein has more Muslim blood on his hands than any tyrant in modern history. And he is Osama bin Laden's most outspoken cheerleader, if not his key supporter.

The first statement is true, but I'm not sure about the second. I haven't seen any reports of Hussein "cheerleading" Bin Laden, nor have I seen any evidence indicating that Saddam supports Bin Laden. The article gives no specific examples.

I also doubt that Bin Laden is pro-Saddam. I don't recall Bin Laden making pro-Hussein statements or anything like it. The only example the article can give is the fact that Bin Laden blames the US for the hardships the Iraqi people have endured due to the sanctions. However, there are a lot of anti-Hussein groups that say the same thing.

Also, Bin Laden wants every Muslim country to have theocratic Sunni rule like the Taliban in Afganistan. Saddam is a staunch Ba'athist secularist opposed to Islamic theocracy. He's murdered scores of Iraqi Islamic fundamentalists. It thus seems rather far-fetched that the two support one another, though certainly it is possible that they cooperate from time to time when they have a common interest. However, asside from the one meeting that a couple Iraqi intelligence officers had with an Al-Qaeda member, which doesn't necessarily mean anything, I have seen no evidence that the two are cooperating. I also don't see what common interest they have right now that would induce them to cooperate.

Hussein is and always has been our buddy. We supported him all the time he killed Kurds, and we at first said we don't care if you invade Kuwait. Sure, we got him out of Kuwait, and for 10 years we have helped him to enrich himself while our policies and infrastructre destruction have resulted in over one million civilian deaths, mainly young children. I don't understand why we support Hussein so strongly, but it is quite clear that we've done it for over 20 years. Just like we supported the Shah of Iran, while his murderous secret police, SAVAK, murdered Iranian civilians who seemed somehow to be some sort of threat to the government.

Glory to Hussein and all American-supported dictators. Remember, we encouraged the development of the Taliban and we gave 100s of millions of dollars to Afghansitan in so-called "humanitarian aid," which was actually payoffs to the Taliban for doing what we wanted, like making heroin illegal.

Glory to the American Empire, soon to be "defended" by nuclear weapons in space. Yes, defended, just like we "defensively" destroy Iraqi air defense systems. And the Iraqi air defense systems are not offensive systems. They are correctly labelled "defense."

Glory to the U.S. Dept. of Defense. It only defends.