Saddam's Character Witness?

Bill Clinton's "Hey, look at me, I'm the new, improved, sexier version of Jimmy Carter!" World Tour 2005 just gets more and more bizarre:

Former president Bill Clinton praised Saddam Hussein's lieutenants and their underlings on Tuesday, saying they were mostly "good" and "decent" people."

"When [the U.S.] kicked out Saddam, they decided to dismantle the whole authority structure," Clinton told an audience at American University in Dubai. "Most of the people who were part of that structure were good, decent people who were making the best out of a very bad situation," he added.

Would those "good and decent people" include Saddam's two psychopathic sons, Uday and Qusay, or such notorious murderers as Ali Hassan al-Majid, [aka Chemical Ali], Barzan al-Takriti, who ran the Iraq's brutal intelligence service, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, who governed northern Iraq during chemical weapon attacks in the Kurds, and Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash [aka Mrs. Anthrax], who was a member of Saddam's Baathist National Command?

Did any American politician ever make similar observations of Hermann Goering, Heinrich Himmler, Joseph Goebbels, Reinhard Heydrich, Adolph Eichmann, etc. during or after World War II? Is it any wonder that the general public conclusion about today's American Left is that they have a collective screw loose?