This article was a fair overview.I don’t believe nothing this country says. They are political liars and economic hitmen. Saddam received a key to the city of Detroit and wasn’t a problem although they said he gassed his people. He still was allowed to receive a key on US soil.

The US-led war in Iraq and Saddam’s Arab legacy
Many Arabs saw Saddam as a strongman who stood up to the West, but most Iraqis despised his brutal authoritarianism.