Arnie - As I explained, Saddam was armed and backed by the USA and Britain and various other countries for a purpose...to destroy the Iranian Islamic Revolution by invading Iran in the '80's. He failed in that purpose. Following that fiasco he did more stupid aggressive things, having been very well armed by the USA and its allies, but he was no longer very useful to them. He became a liability. They decided to get rid of him and get Iraq's oil at the same time.

If you are trying to prove that Saddam used the deaths of innocent Iraqis to play politics, then I am sure you are absolutely right! It would be foolish not to think he would do that. After all, it's exactly the sort of thing the USA does regularly...use the deaths of innocent people to justify unjustifiable policies, such as unprovoked aggression and the murder of thousands with high tech weaponry.

Saddam is the ugly face of those in the State Department who backed him, reflected in the mirror of your consciousness. If you hate him, then maybe you should question the legitimacy of the people in the US government who backed him up when they found it convenient to. They are just as guilty as he is, and several of them are key people in the present Bush administration. They have used him as the false face to justify attacking a small country and robbing it of its resources.