It's all about the media. Whatever the media conveys, the people believe. Not to say that he was a good guy, but he was fighting for what he thought was right, trying to get the Americans out. First, it was nuclear weapons, then it was chemical weapons, then it was taking down the taliban, then it was Osama, now they're out of excuses, and they say it's a peacekeeping mission. The inconvenient truth is that the whole invasion of the middle east was about oil. Places like Somalia are WORSE, but why don't we help THEM? There is no oil there.