Doesn't surprise me a bit. There's a very big game going on in the World, troll, and Saddam was just a bit player (the latest "face" for the American public to obsess about, so as to provide homefront support for a needless and illegal military action).

The game goes way back...to the funding and training of mujahedeen by the USA to bleed Russia white in Afghanistan and destabilize and hopefully break up the Soviet Union. That part succeeded. After that...to get possession of the Caspian oil. That part is well under way.

Russia has been profoundly damaged, very badly hurt, and of course they are looking for ways to strike back and not lose anything more than what they already have.

This is power politics...economic war...coupled with military adventurism. It's the great game. America and Britain are carving out a new Empire from the remains of the old Soviet Union, and Russia and a bunch of small countries have been the big losers so far. The Russians know it, and they are doing exactly what the West is doing...every sneaky and underhanded thing they can think up. From their point of view, it's survival.

You regard them as evil for so doing? They are no more evil than the people you regard as "the good guys".

And that is your error. There are no good guys in this game except the ordinary people everywhere who are just trying to live their lives in a peaceful and productive fashion.

- LH