Parapundit has this blurb which links to an article interviewing a German neo-Marxist / human rights activist who's actually pro-US intervention in Iraq.    Why?   Because he's actually spent a lot of time on the ground in Iraq as an aid worker and seen the devil in action first hand.

I'm fighting hard not to quote the whole article.   It's just all sooo good and, well, a breath of fresh air.

..."People in Iraq won't talk freely, because they are terrified that their friends are working for one of Saddam's nine horrible security services. ... The Iraqis made people lie down in the streets and then buried them alive under asphalt. They killed everyone who looked a little religious, because this was a Shi'ite area. It was forbidden to take the corpses from the street. All in all, 60,000 or 70,000 people were killed in this area in 1991.

..."The first thing that was done after the uprising was crushed was to repaint the pictures of Saddam Hussein. People had riddled them with bullets. Not one had been left ...

...The doctor just said, `Well, it is a strange victory if daily children are dying of hunger.' That was enough. Someone heard him. He was taken, tortured for three weeks and brought back a broken person. Letting one sentence slip is cause enough for a person to vanish into an Iraqi prison or even to be killed."

He also paints part of the picture connecting Hussein and global terror (although, once again, not necessarily Al Qaeda):

...The most regressive and dangerous elements in the Arab and Islamic world depend on Saddam Hussein. ...Saddam is financing organizations like the Arab Liberation Front in Palestine, which is a Ba'ath organization. He is paying the families of suicide attackers. He is directly and indirectly responsible for a lot of terrorism in the Middle East."

He's also got some very interesting commentary on Anti-Globalization, Anti-Israel, and reaction of the Arab world to Schroeder's rhetoric.