If he was hiding in slovakia, there would have been a US invasion to get him.
Your right, they made him look like a monster. After all, all he did was slaughter people with chemical, biological and nuclear weapons, perform autopsys to see if they died correctly, torture people by having their body parts ripped off and/or dropping them from 5 story building, start wars killing hundreds of thousands, set Kuwait's oil fields on fire, throw millions of barrels of oil into the mediterrean to get the record for the world's worst marine disaster which killed millions of ocean life, dictate to people how they should live their lives, establish a secret police to make sure people were doing and thinking what he wanted them to, attempt to assassinate an American president, donate millions of dollars to pay for sucide bombings killing people in Israel, work with Osama Bin Laden for 13 years, establish an Al Quida terrorist training camp, donate millions of US dollars to Al Quida some of which were used to mass murder US citizens on 9/11, kill who ever questioned him, use the aid sent by the UN to feed his military, build palaces with the oil money he was supposed to use to make his people live better lives, violate 17 United Nation "resolutions," violate the geniva convention by torturing PoWs, and a few other things. I don't see what he did to be considered cruel. Infact he is the nicest guy I have ever heard of.
