Much of the stuff you read about Saddam is simply not true. The first step of any war is propaganda, demonizing the enemy. During World War 2, the British spread the rumor that German soldiers ate babies. During Gulf War 1 the US spread the rumor that Saddam killed Kuwaiti babies in incubators. Neither one of these stories was true.
Another lie that is constantly repeated is that Saddam supposedly gassed his own people. That is simply not true. Remember last week I posted several links to news sites and even to a US military college who invastigated the matter and it turned out that the Kurds had been gassed by Iran and not Iraq?
Well, recently even the New York Times finally picked up that story:
Iranian gas not Iraqi gas killed the Kurds
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/31/op...b6c3c76ea6ffe5