The mess left after dropping thousands of tons of explosives and widespread use of DU ammunition is in a whole different class of mess than a political mess left by US pandering to a dictator by supplying it with biological and chemical agents in support of a short term goal (war against Iran).

You did bother to click on the link proffered on this board showing Rumsfeld smiling and shaking Hussein's hand in the 80s, didn't you? Or was it too inconvenient to your hidebound world view to do so?