"Mad Men" like Saddam Hussien that we funded and sold gas to, with which he used against the Kurds?

Or "mad men" like Augusto Pinochet, who the USA supported in a coup, and then who brutally repressed Chile for many years?

Or "mad men" like Manuel Noriega, who was a drug-runner/military general on the CIA payroll ... until he stopped taking orders from Washington, and was summarily hunted down.

Or the "mad men" like the so-called "Contras", funded by illegal arms sales to Iran, and who engaged in a war against "soft targets" in Nicaragua against the democractically-elected Sandinistas.

I think, Pally, you'll find the US Foreign Policy a little spotty in terms of "supporting democracy" and "removing bad guys". Seems we make fantastic deals with bad guys when they do our dirty work.