The anti-war people have a moral problem. If they carry signs saying that "saddam is a genocidal maniac", they lose leverage with regards to the position they take. So instead they say nothing about Saddam. They carry signs declaring "Bush=Hitler' or "Sharon is a Nazi". For them to acknowledge the evil of Saddam, they may screw up the message. This article spells it out better than I. Some exerpts:

Comedian Dennis Miller, one of the few voices of balance in the entertainment industry when it comes to Iraq, recently offered some advice to peace activists: "If you're in a peace march and the guy next to you has a sign saying that 'Bush is Hitler,' forget
the peace thing for a second and beat his ass, because he is not Hitler."

Dennis Miller speaks with his conscience. I believe that some anti-war celebrities truly are just non-violent people who believe that no war is good. I have yet to hear any of them offer a realistic alternative though.

Comedian Dennis Miller, one of the few voices of balance in the entertainment industry when it comes to Iraq, recently offered some advice to peace activists: "If you're in a peace march and the guy next to you has a sign saying that 'Bush is Hitler,' forget the peace thing for a second and beat his ass, because he is not Hitler."


At the London protest last month, a group of Iraqis bearing signs reading "Freedom for Iraq" and "American rule, a thousand times better than Takriti tyranny" attempted to join the ranks of the marchers. They were turned away by march supervisors. Photographs showing the Kurdish victims of Saddam's 1988 chemical attack on Halabja were confiscated.
Salima Kazim, an Iraqi grandmother whose three sons - political dissidents - were murdered by Saddam, approached the rostrum and asked, "Could I have the microphone for one minute to tell the people about my life?" The speaker, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, replied to the old woman, "Today is not about Saddam Hussein." And there you have the moral conundrum of the peace movement -nothing is about Saddam Hussein.

If the true nature of Saddam's brutality were exposed, the entire anti-war way of thinking would collapse under the weight of lies.