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Саддам ставленник Америки, об этом и нечего спорить.
О да, этот каламбурчик, пожалуй, даже получше первого

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"┘As the general public forget about the long flirt with Saddam, so we forget about the CIA▓s support for Osama bin Laden▓s anti-Soviet activities.
The 1980s were a bad decade, I know. Do we have to bring all that up again? History can be such a nuisance. Best to forget that both bin Laden and Hussein ≈ leaders of the ⌠Axis of Evil■ no less ≈ were supported by the U.S. in order to fight wars against America▓s enemies. It▓s bound to cause anxiety right when we need to be convinced that the solution to terrorism is more military action.
Nevertheless, some of us, like Winston in George Orwell▓s 1984, have this quirky preference for historical accuracy. We are a little troubled by such collective amnesia:.."
http://www.creativeresistance.ca/world-awareness/2002-sept06-dick-cheney-supports-war-on-iraq.htm
"1963- CIA recruits Iraqi Baath Party (including a young Saddam Hussein) to assasinate the new leader, Abdul-Karim Kassem. After the coup, the CIA gave the Baath a long list of communists and others to liquidate. During the 1980s the CIA would go on to help provide weapons to both Iraq and Iran in a war that would kill over one million people. "
1991- US and allies (mostly Britain) invade Iraq after U.S./CIA supported Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait. 200,000 Iraqis are killed, including over 400 civilians killed by two U.S. missiles in the Al-Amerya air shelter. Over the next 10 years another 400 tons of explosives will be dropped on Iraq killing another 300 civilians, and hundreds of thousands more starved through U.S. imposed sanctions. The U.S. forces Saudi Arabia to allow thousands of U.S. military to remain indefinitely within its boarders. "
http://theinsurgent.net/index.php?volnum=13.2&article=usterror
"┘Iraqis have always suspected that the 1963 military coup that set Saddam Husain on the road to absolute power had been masterminded by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). New evidence just published reveals that the agency not only engineered the putsch but also supplied the list of people to be eliminated once power was secured - a monstrous stratagem that led to the decimation of Iraq's professional class.
The overthrow of president Abdul Karim Kassim on February 8, 1963 was not, of course, the first intervention in the region by the agency, but it was the bloodiest - far bloodier than the coup it orchestrated in 1953 to restore the shah of Iran to power. Just how gory, and how deep the CIA's involvement in it, is demonstrated in a new book by Said Aburish, a writer on Arab political affairs.
The book, A Brutal Friendship: The West and the Arab Elite (1997), sets out the details not only of how the CIA closely controlled the planning stages but also how it played a central role in the subsequent purge of suspected leftists after the coup┘"
http://www.muslimedia.com/archives/features98/saddam.htm