What was Obey thinking?

According to this story, Dave Obey is comparing our soldiers fighting the war on terror to Saddam Hussein.

While torture is certainly wrong and should never be condoned, our soldiers' interrogated prisoners who expressly want to kill Americans and innocent Iraqi citizens. Saddam Hussein used a biological weapon of mass destruction to kill thousands of innocent Iraqi people. He directed his military to throw people off buildings, cut their tongues and eyes out, take off limbs, etc of people who disagreed with him.

To compare our troops who are dedicated to preventing terror to Saddam Hussein who was dedicated to terrorizing his own people and enabling terrorists around the world is offensive.