Donald Trump claimed last week that Saddam Hussein, the deceased Iraqi dictator who was deposed from power more than a decade ago, was “so good” at killing terrorists. The presumptive Republican nominee’s point was to suggest Iraq would be better off as it was prior to the 2003 invasion by American-led coalition forces. The Washington Post editorial board, however, says Trump is dead wrong about Saddam’s record on killing terrorists.

“[Saddam] was one of the contemporary world’s foremost sponsors of terrorism. He harbored or funded some of history’s most infamous killers and jihadists, including the current chief of al-Qaeda, and plotted numerous terrorist attacks of his own, including an attempt to assassinate former president George H.W. Bush with a suicide bomb. Long before the U.S. invasion of 2003, his regime was formally identified by the State Department as a state sponsor of terrorism,” writes the Post in a Sunday editorial.