Good points, and clearly out as usual. I have been worried about the same analogy that Art raises -- not the question of whether Saddam is like Hitler, but whether in some different way he is a huge catastrophe waiting to happen just as Hitler was when he ttook over and started setting the Brown Shirts loose , and just gettinghimself a wee bit of liebensraum, but not enough to provike an immediate militarty response from the combined forces of Europe.
I do not believe that Saddam is the catastrophe a-borning that Bush's apartchiks paint. But the similarities -- cunning, brutality, megalomania, indifference to suffering and the will to resort to extreme -- even excessive -- measures-- are disturbing.