"It wasn't a great place to live but we wanted him in power & we put him there,...."

That Barry is a lie and you know it. However if you do believe it to be true perhaps you can provide some detail by way of substantiation

"we wanted him in power & we put him there" - I take it the "we" is the USA. Now why did the US want Saddam in power in 1979?? And exactly how did the USA go about putting him in there??