USA SUPPORTED SADDAM. SO?
I love how the left continues to demonstrate their complete misunderstanding of political realities. Or is it their inability to remember history? Perhaps they are just dishonest. In any case, it's funny that they continuously point out that the United States once supported Saddam (see Eric Alterman, "yes, I’m quite pleased that a monstrous mass murderer (though a former ally to Messrs. Reagan, Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld"). As though that support (a) was wrong, or (b) somehow undermines our current efforts. If our prior support was wrong, then why is it now wrong to do the right thing and bring Saddam down (or up out of his rathole)? Does the left prefer that we continue to support this tyrant in order to merely avoid the label of hyprocrite?

And if that prior support was wrong, what should have been the enlightened leftist policy? Perhaps we should have opposed Saddam in the 1980s, joined sides with the Ayatollah Khomeini, and helped the Islamo-fascist Iranians create a greater Iran throughout the fertile crescent? Or, we could have remained neutral, which would have had the same result. No, we have a better world today because of our support of Saddam in the 1980s. Otherwise, we would have had a longer war against the Greater Iranian Republic stretching from Jordan to Pakistan, and it would be much tougher occupying Baghdad and Tehran today. And if you think it's difficult dealing with a nation of Sunni-Arabs, Shia-Arabs and Kurds, just stir in a few million Persians and see what happens.