Saddam fever

Alright, this is totally ludicrous. Big Air Fred links us to an article in which the Pentagon asserts that a) Saddam Hussein is the worst ruler in world history, and b) his rule is unprecedented in oppression and torture.

The Iraqi people will be free of decades and decades and decades of torture and oppression the likes of which I think the world has not ever seen before (Victoria Clarke, Pentagon)

Saddam may be a bad, bad man, but his country was actually flourishing before US and international sanctions destroyed the middle class. Also, I seem to remember something about horrible horrible despots during the days of Ancient Rome, the Dark Ages, the 1930s-40s, the late 1990s, and probably a few tens of others. To try to justify this war in this way is deplorable. Go back in your holes and fix this problem, quit covering your asses.