I believe you have left out some vital facts— A lot of BS in that article, which has nothing to do with what Hamas has done. As for Saddam Hussein and Sons, they were in already in violation of 13 UN Security Council Resolutions, they were committing genocide by gassing their indigenous Kurdish population, they had committed atrocities in Kuwait and a major ecological disaster by setting their oil fields on fire, non-cooperation with the IAEA, and harboring a known terrorist in Abdul Rahman Yasin, the Iraqi bomb-maker for the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993.
SECURITY COUNCIL HOLDS IRAQ IN ‘MATERIAL BREACH’ OF DISARMAMENT OBLIGATIONS, OFFERS FINAL CHANCE TO COMPLY, UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTING RESOLUTION 1441 (2002)
08/11/2002 — UN Press Release SC/7564 — Security Council 4644th Meeting (AM). –SECURITY COUNCIL HOLDS IRAQ IN ‘MATERIAL BREACH’ OF DISARMAMENT OBLIGATIONS –OFFERS FINAL CHANCE TO COMPLY, UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTING RESOLUTION 1441 (2002)