Republican Congressman Steve Stockman, who is threatening to have President Barack Obama impeached over his use of executive orders to curb gun violence, last night compared the President to Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi dictator known for using children as human shields to protect him, and who was responsible for hundreds of thousands of Iraqi citizen deaths.

Ahead of President Obama’s press conference today, to which several schoolchildren were invited to sit onstage, Rep. Stockman spoke to Fox News anchor Greta Van Susteren