Quote from EC1:
Yes, I am sure they loved him.
After all, all opinion polls suggest that he enjoyed a 100% electorate victory.
Did you know the left's second favorite dictator (after Castro) wrote a book that later became a musical?
"With all this evil to perpetrate, you wouldn't think Saddam Hussein would have had a lot of spare time on his hands, but his literary output suggests otherwise. He wrote a romance novel after the first Gulf War, called "Zabibah and the King," about a kind-hearted leader whose virtuous bride is raped and killed by a painfully unsubtle allegorical stand-in for the U.S.
The king avenges her death, then attempts to give constitutional-style freedoms to his people. The effort backfires, leaving the kingdom in chaos, just in case anyone had any doubts about the way Iraq is currently being run.
The book was adapted into a musical in 2001."
http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/dictators/saddam-hussein/