“Glad to meet ya, kid. You’re a real horse’s ass.” Those are the words Paul Newman said to Robert Redford some 30-odd years ago that made me a lifelong fan of them both. I was around 10, give or take, when my parents dragged my brother & me to our local movie theatre to see The Sting.
There were many good reasons to remove Saddam Hussein from power and try to bring democracy to Iraq: He was a ruthless dictator guilty of many atrocities. The Gulf War made it clear that he, much like Hitler, had ambitions to take over other sovereign countries for his own power-hungry self-interests.