Say, Little Hawk, are you saying that Saddam is merely a convenient scapegoat here? That he didn't violate international law and the sovereignty of Kuwait by invading, sacking, and occupying it? That he was not and is not engaged in the manufacture of biological and chemical weapons in violation of his surrender agreement? That he isn't involved in the international financing and training of extreme Islamic terrorists? That he hasn't employed assassination and murder to take and hold power in his country? That he didn't take an active role in the attempted extermination of Kurds and other minority sects in Iraq? That he wouldn't, if he had the technology at hand, launch a nuclear strike on Israel that would endanger the rest of the world, even including unaggressive Canada?

Well, I think all of the above is true. And if someone gets to wear the crown of "symbolic enemy", this guy has more than enough credentials.