| After all, al Qaeda and ISIS have sporadically fought with one another, and the Saddam regime is long gone. |
| Yet would we nod approvingly if President Bush blamed the failure of U.S. efforts to pacify post-invasion Iraq on Saddam Hussein? |
| But an uncaged tyrant like Saddam demanded a posture at once more nimble and aggressive. |
| In 1981, while the world condemned us, we sent our air force to destroy the Osirak reactor Saddam Hussein was building in Iraq. |
| The opposition was discredited, especially the mujahedin e Khalq, which supported Saddam and Iraq. |
| He could not bring himself to say that he would have opposed the invasion of Iraq to topple Saddam Hussein. |
