It's worse for almost everyone in Iraq now...except perhaps the Kurds.

Anyway, the USA loved Saddam when he was attacking Iran for them in the 80's. Remember? How come they changed their minds about Saddam later? Because of poor little Kuwait? Hell, no. Because their decisions are not based upon moral considerations at all...they are based upon pragmatic issues of money flow and control of resources. They loved Saddam as long as he was useful to them, transformed him through propaganda into an arch-fiend when he was not. People are easily fooled, because they have such short memories.

The real truth about Saddam? It would be approximately halfway between the "good friend of America" from the 80's and the "deadly enemy of America" from more recent times.