Lovely...Obama thought we should have just left Saddam in power. If he had been the decision-maker in 2003, that torture chamber on East 79th Street would probably still be operating.
Saddam kept torture chamber in basement of Iraqi mission in NYC
What I'm not sure of is why we're only hearing about this now. It seems to me that as much heat as the Bush Administration took for the Iraq invasion, they would have told us about this at the time. Maybe they were concerned that it would look bad to have something like this going on right under their noses, even though they were the ones who ultimately put a stop to it.
But lest you have fallen into the thinking that we should have kept Saddam around because he "stablized" the Middle East or whatever, you might want to know what was happening on East 79th Street:
The Mission of Iraq, which sits on a wealthy Upper East Side block near Central Park, has a dark secret: it’s basement was used as a jail equipped for torture under Saddam Hussein’s regime, The Post has learned