"He [Saddam] was never the legitimate ruler of Iraq"

thank goodness we've cleared that one up, though when he was attacking Iran on behalf of his USA sponsors, he was considered to be as such.

Cluster bombs - my objection to cluster bombs is the proportion of them that might remain unexploded after being dropped. There is a big risk of civilan casualties long after the conflict has ended, especially among kids etc., who may pick them up unwittingly (adults would probably recognise what they arfe more quickly). I have the same problem with landmines, which also have the effect of rendering large tracts of land totally useless (one only needs think of Cambodia). I know war is war, and the only object is to win, but if it is at all humanly possible, wepaons like cluster bombs, landmines and so on should go the the same way as gas and chemical weapons and be banned. But then the big military companies would run out of things to invent and sell.