Easy there, Little Beaver.
<Farther on in that article.
“Few opinion makers in the region expect that the Iraqis will submit to prolonged direct rule by occupying forces — and even fewer take at face value America’s professed interest in the human rights of ordinary Iraqis. People like Mr. Nauimi note that Mr. Hussein used chemical weapons against his own population in the late 1980s, precisely when he was receiving U.S. military assistance — and Washington kept mum at the time.”
Arf (mum - the US helped him use them. So much for the moral high road!)