Woody - All you need to do is refer us to the article with a link. We don't need to duplicate and duplicate (it was in another thread). Its just the same information. Its redundant, its no longer useful.

...and why was that last message so 'bold'? Where did that come from?

...nobody questioned that Saddam was a lunatic. Even Iran thought so but the U.S. was so afraid of losing their grip in the Middle East that they backed Saddam anyway. Removing Saddam from power
saved Iran the dirty work.