Gendros
Some information for you
Saddam, was given power by we Brits, backed by your beloved but deadly friends the Americans. We put him in power to maintain the flow of the black stuff out of the region. We Brits and them pesky yanks sanctioned Saddam's atrocities by ignoring the cries of the innocent. Many bravely approached the west begging for help but we refused, simply informing Saddam's Police of the names and information we'd received so they could 'deal' with it.
We allowed, through our inactivity, his madness to reign over any who opposed, threatened or simply were disliked by him. We gave him the power, the guns, the army, the military infrastructure, the wealth, the means to be a successful tyrant and for decades the cries coming from his prisons were met by deaf diplomatic envoys on jollys to Baghdad
Our attitude changed towards him AFTER he refused to allow a US base of operations be installed on his borders and, in his lunatic mind, far too close to his southern oil fields for comfort. Lots happened after that all leading to the Kuwait war where the west semi went to war against him.....
....but let him off the hook, we let him go.
Still the atrocities continued and still we heard them but did nothing for years against Saddam until, that is, years after the act he decided he wanted back the oilfields he lost in the aftermath of the Kuwait war.
This time Saddam made an error of judgment, he assumed his survival of the Kuwait war was down to his superior military mind and not due to the incompetence of the 'Private' agencies that ran the war in Kuwait; Our military were directed by our Government to take direct orders from these non aligned, private agencies.
Within a year of Saddam threatening the flow of oil within his region his county was placed under international, unilateral, trade sanctions directly leading to the death from malnutrition, sickness and infection, of hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women and CHILDREN, that's children just like yours buddy.
After years of ignoring his atrocities, after years of state visits, him to here, Royalty to there, him to the USA, US president (3 of them) to there, and PM (4 of them) to there, after decades of cheek clenching Détente the only reason our attitude changed was because the flow of the oligarchs oil was threatened.
.......and the rest is history, towers fell, wars began, camps opened, rendition sanctioned, innocents kidnapped and some killed on London tubes. Since then the sanctity and rite to freedom which every ones God gives us all at birth has been violated, raped and twisted beyond that of any Orwellian fiction. Our natural born rites and freedoms have gone, never to be return to me or my children unless....??