Robert Scheer reminds us that we were once friendly with Hussein. Really, I'm friggin' shocked. Of course we allied with Hussein, the Iranian government was complicit in holding American hostages for 444 days. The old saying "The enemy of my enemy is my friend" is always true. We also sided with Stalin to fight a greater enemy. We sided with bin-Laden when it was in our best interest. So what? We chose to rectify the situation now. It's funny how the left always scolds us for bringing up Clinton in an argument, but they have no qualms about bringing up Hussein, Iran-Contra, Nixon, and anything Reagan was involved in. Scheer is over the edge as are alot of lefty opinion writers and it's getting the best of them.