I am not saying Saddam was innocent but how this favourite blue boy of US, who had been their strong ally for more than 10 yrs (during his 8 year long war with Iran and even his attacking Kuwait was duly cleared by then U.S ambassador in Baghdad), had turned into their foe is pretty obvious. The tens of thousands Kurds who were killed by his regime with sarin gas was supplied by US firm for use against the Iranians.
The same holds true for Laden, who was all along assisted by the CIA's covert wing while waging a battle against the communist Russia occupying Afghanistan during the cold war era.
One has to do research and fact finding beyond what appears on TV and other media. Actually, both Laden and Saddam realized that they were mere pawns in the hands of US and their allies and had revolted against.
The result is an all out war (which to the bourgeoisie and consumerist population of the US is like a living room television war games with its shock and awe, much like the video games but a real hell for the victim nation and its people) led by US on Afghanistan and Iraq and the net result is killing of almost 1 million people and total devastations of lives of millions of others and their future generations, most of whom has nothing to do with this war in the first place.
A natural question would be why in the world US would be indulging in all this war games. To dig into that one needs to read the well researched books of Dr. Noam Chomsky, Dr.


