'What on earth is the point of 'hating' Margaret Thatcher?
I hate and despise some of the things she did when in office'

I agree with the sentiment but lest we allow compassion to cloud our memory and fail to learn what her legacy did....…


'A chemical plant which the US says is a key component in Iraq's chemical warfare arsenal was secretly built by Britain in 1985

Documents show British ministers knew at the time that the £14m plant, called Falluja 2, was likely to be used for mustard and nerve gas production.
Senior officials recorded in writing that Saddam Hussein was actively gassing his opponents and that there was a "strong possibility" that the chlorine plant was intended by the Iraqis to make mustard gas. At the time, Saddam was known to be gassing Iranian troops in their thousands in the Iran-Iraq war.

But ministers in the then Thatcher government none the less secretly gave financial backing to the British company involved, Uhde Ltd, through insurance guarantees

Mr Channon, ( then trade minister) in line with Mrs Thatcher's policy of propping up the dictator, said: "A ban would do our other trade prospects in Iraq no good".

The Guardian, Thursday March 6 2003