Amazing how now the same man is considered an " evil-doer"!
I think Saddam Hussein was and is, but it didn't bother the US at that time. They even supplied the chemicals to gas the Iranians ( They were the evil-doers then, now they are maybe the US allies...)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...528574,00.html
Little exerp for those whose attention span is limited....
**DONALD RUMSFELD, the US Defence Secretary and one of the most strident critics of Saddam Hussein, met the Iraqi President in 1983 to ease the way for US companies to sell Baghdad biological and chemical weapons components, including anthrax and bubonic plague cultures, according to newly declassified US Government documents. **
Oh mighty dollar.....