It's of course hard to know "the actual facts". As another commenter here reminded us, one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. It's not one perso

It's of course hard to know "the actual facts". As another commenter here reminded us, one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. It's not one person, it's an entire brutal regime that operated in Iraq. I remember reading some stories, but don't have links saved. But the stories are so numerous and so "over the top" that it's probably not just "a lot of professionally crafted lies". There's probably a lot of truth there. So I did a quick search. The Guardian [1] (leftist rag recently giving us the Snowden revelations) had this to say about Uday, one of Saddam Hussein's sons, in the lead paragraph in a story in 2003: Uday: career of rape, torture and murder He was a monster even by the standards of Saddam Hussein's Iraq, a sadist with a taste for cruelty so extreme that even his father was forced to acknowledge that his first-born son would not be a worthy heir. Uday and Qusay pretty much got to do as they pleased in Iraq. At least until they suffered from a terminal case of acute lead poisoning. I was never very enthusiastic about how jingoistic the US was vis a vis Iraq in the runup to the 2003 invasion. But ridding the gene pool of a few of these miscreants can't be such a bad thing. [1] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/jul/23/iraq.suzannegoldenberg http://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/jul/23/iraq.suzannegol...