Reply #5: No surprise here, I always expected lots of these stories were lies.

[daleo]

I always had my doubts about the "Hussien/Uday/Quesay/etc. is a monster" stories. This doesn't necessarily mean they were boy scouts, though. As we now know, ruling a fractious country like Iraq isn't a tea party. The real lurid propaganda is generally false, but it plays well with the rubes. You know the war party is on the move when you hear these lurid tales. It was ever thus.