You have some kind of revisionist history to back up your claim that Saddam Hussein was a benign dictator?
How about the aggressive invasion of Kuwait? How about gasing his own people with chemical weapons? How about the mass-murder of millions of his own people? Saddam Hussein was an evil dictator of the worst kind. He fed his enemies children into plastic shredding machines while the parents watched. He had rape rooms and torture rooms. The guy was just plain evil and a terrible human being. For you to say that he was a ‘benign dictator’ really shows your ignorance.
I’ve decided that Mr. Alberta’s child is, as you say, a revisionist of the worst type. To fit his weird worldview, he ignores facts and changes them too. As he sees it, Putin’s a victim. As most people see it, Russia is a victim of Putin.
It’s the Middle East, and as long as you have tribal governance that kind of thing will never end. Get used to it, or stop listening to the news.