that's not really news. both the u.s. and u.k. supported saddam up until the day of the invasion of kuwait. bush authorized the sale of technology with WMD applications, and the discovery of biological weapons fascilities was denied by the pentagon. he was the son of a bitch then, that he is now-we were just after a different bogeyman at the time. thankfuly, he simply doesn't have the military capabilities he used to.