Saddam Hussein is a monster, something on which we can all agree. I know he tortured people. There is plenty of evidence that he is psychopathic. He murdered his two sons-in-law after guaranteeing them safe passage back from Switzerland but who put him there? It was the Anglo-American axis which inflicted him on the unfortunate Iraqi people in pursuit of their own foreign policy aims. It was also they who armed him with chemical and biological weapons which were used on the Kurds in 1988. Moreover, those of us with clear political memories will recall that after this – in full knowledge of Saddam's crimes against his own people – Mr. Donald Rumsfeld – the Dr. Strangelove of the present American Administration – actually went to Baghdad and embraced Saddam, knowing him to be a mass murderer.