A point that gets lost in all this historical revisionism: Saddam was just fine with terrorist organizations, and the entire reason Bush II invaded Iraq was that he was convinced that Saddam would lend state-level support to Islamic terrorist organizations in the way that Afghanistan already had, and that existing camps in Iraq indicated that Saddam already was. People who knew this perfectly well at the time appear to have forgotten it in the midst of the media blitz since then, and others deny it because it conflicts with their "Bush lied" narrative.
Saddam Hussein was not protecting the United States against terrorism. If he were he'd still be there.
Somebody who understands the history of Iraq rather than the fantasy that Saddam Hussein was a pluralist and secularist. Congrats. BTW how many Americans would know who Abu Nidal, Abu Abbas and Abu Zarqawi were and why they were in Baghdad?
You are absolutely right. How quickly we forget.