>I'm still at a loss as to how Saddam is a monster, Musharraf, Mubarak, Saudi
>Royales, Uzbekhi dictators, etc. are not monsters in the general discourse.
You know the answer - it's all a matter of who's a friend or an enemy of the U.S. I don't think anyone's disputed that. What a lot of lefties have trouble admitting is that even enemies of the U.S. can be awful.
I'd guess also that the cumulative death toll for SH's regime is a lot higher than most of the regimes you list. Is there any serious disputing that the toll was in the hundreds of thousands? As Tariq Ali said, "On the left, he's been hated for ages."
Doug