1.   Backing dictators on the basis of ideological fidelity for three decades, East and West both ignored questions of human rights or economic development.

2.   How often has the CIA backed dictators?

3.   Successive U.S. administrations later backed Indonesian dictator Suharto in his bloody crackdown against the rebels.

4.   Successive U.S. administrations later backed Indonesian dictator Suharto in his crackdown against the rebels.

5.   The policy of eliminating Saddam was flawed from the day the US backed the dictator, economically and militarily, in the bid to contain Iran.