Keep the blame where the blame belongs.

The National Geographic Channel has been running some specials detailing the vicious crimes of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. These documentaries explored – in gory detail – the mass executions, the burying people alive, the physical and mental torturing and, lest we forget, his use of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) against not only his enemies in Iran, but also his own Kurdish citizens.

One in particular replayed videotapes taken by Saddam’s own henchmen of their physically beating Iraqi “dissidents” with rods, beheading them, breaking their arms and the list of atrocities goes on and on. At some point in the show an estimate of 300,000 executions took place during Saddam Hussein’s nearly 30 year reign of terror as the totalitarian leader of Iraq.

Of course, the narration of each documentary pointed out that the WMDs the United States was convinced Iraq had were never found. Liberals love to holler about this “false” premise for launching the Second Gulf War which ultimately led to Hussein’s arrest, trial and execution for his many crimes against humanity. Each of these documentaries insinuates this same accusation.

But, let’s examine a few related rumors before they try to ferment into facts.

Firstly, the U.S. didn’t just “think” that Hussein’s Iraq had WMD. Hussein himself had previously possessed such and previously used them. As mentioned above, he’d utilized them against Iran and against the Kurdish Iraqi citizens in the north of his country.

Secondly, even these very documentaries admit that in the early 2000s – when the whole post-9-11 world had a reason to fear global Islamic terrorism - Hussein had done a very effective job of making the whole world – particularly Hussein’s internal and external enemies – think he possessed WMD.

In other words, at the very least, Hussein was running a very convincing bluff.

Thirdly, many of the liberal politicians who later screamed their heads off about Bush’s justification for invading Iraq and toppling Hussein were…wait for it… earlier as equally convinced as Bush of Hussein’s possession of large stockpiles of WMD. That includes former NY Senator, former Secretary of State, now presidential candidate Hilary Clinton and former MA Senator, former presidential candidate, now Secretary of State John “Flip Flop” Kerry who “voted for it before he voted against it.”

Lastly, Bear in mind that even though these same liberals claim that Bush should’ve been impeached for launching the War on these false pretenses, they conveniently ignore that the Democrats were the majority in both the House and the Senate at that time and could’ve easily impeached Bush had there actually been legal grounds supporting such a charge.

The bottom line on this story is that Saddam Hussein was a brutal, vicious, probably damned psychopathic, oppressive dictator. He was running a bluff apparently holding only deuce-high nothing. He got his bluff called and was found to be holding nothing.

Do I lose sleep over that? Hell no. the world is far better off without such a vicious maniac terrorizing, brutalizing and slaughtering his own people as well as destabilizing an already terribly unstable region.

And I think we all should remember these points about Hussein’s history and keep the blame on him where it belongs.