An "apologist for Saddam Hussein" would be someone who defended and justified the man and his regime. I haven't come across many of those here or anywhere else.

There were people who wanted to go to war to get rid of Stalin, back in the Forties and Fifties. The people who stopped this happening were not "apologists for Stalin" - they were people who believed that the overall consequences of that were likely to be disastrous.

We've yet to see what the full consequenes of the recent war, and of the manoeuvering that brought it about, will turn out to be.