Brendan Ryan (Labour)

That Saddam Hussein is a brute goes without saying. It would be a wonderful world if we were rid of all the brutes but unfortunately the world is not rid of them, nor has it been in my adult life. Brutes have been kept in power in various parts of the world because it has suited the interests of one major power or another. Superpowers have intervened to prevent the departure of brutal abusers of their peoples. When there were two superpowers, both intervened. We all know what the Soviet Union did on many occasions in eastern Europe.