In this timely book, Lawrence Kaplan and William Kristol take a hard look at Saddam Hussein. And they see the face of evil: someone who embraced a cruel blend of socialism, fascism, and pan-Arab nationalism when young and later became a coup plotter and a member of the Iraqi equivalent of Hitlers Brown Shirts. Once in power, Saddam methodically created a terror state where thousands of citizens have been made to disappear and where the wives of government officials are raped by secret policemen to extort loyalty from the officials or their colleagues.