While talking about the differences between friendly authoritarian regimes and evil totalitarian ones ala St. Kirkpatrick, I forgot to mention one of our other good friends, a little-known petty dictator named Saddam Hussein. Not only was he anti-communist but the Iran-Iraq war was deemed indispensible in our efforts to contain Iran and the threat of Iranian-sponsored Islamic terrorism during the 1980's.  Lord, what ever happened to that guy?