This is what I was referring to, he killed all types of Shi'ites, extremists or not.
To be fair to your argument, Iran and Iraq had a long standing tension going on, what you're not understanding is that Saddam had attacked Iran first of course the Kurds were going to stage a rebellion, but they only turned on the government after Iraq had started the war. This is not subjective info, look it up on Wikipedia
I get it, you are Iraqi and Hussein did some good things for the country, like Castro, Stalin or Mao, but like them he was still insane and power hungry.