Not round and round the houses ard, merely putting a few facts in the way of your normal narrow-minded, bigotted crap.

Now let's take a look at your latest offering:

"Saddam was slaughtering the Marsh Arabs and the pleas of the various human rights groups were ignored, money was more important than the lives of the Kurds and the Marsh Arabs."

When was he doing this ard? If memory serves me correctly with regard to the Maadan that happened after "Desert Storm". So at the time he was doing the slaughtering, the UN were supposed to be looking after this, UN sanctions were in place but proving totally ineffective, Saddam's ability to slaughter was somewhat impaired due to the fact that he could not use his airforce because the USA and the UK imposed the Southern No-Fly zone (much to the objection of well intentioned fools like yourself). In the North, British Royal Marines backed up by US and UK air power prevented Saddam doing the same to the Kurds (the well intentioned fools objected to that too).

So please don't tell me about pleas from various human rights groups, they are very good at highlighting issues but then form the backbone of resistance when others attempt to take action to try and put things right.

When it comes to contributions by nations with respect to battling for the rights of man, the record of the UK is not all that shoddy.