From: Randall Parker 

So what is your view Phil? Do you believe every nutcase conspiracy theory
that casts the United States in a bad light?

Phil Payne wrote:
>>Where did you learn the fiction that the United States put Hussein into
>>power? He did it himself and using rather ruthless methods.
>
>
> That's your view.  Other have very different views:
>
> http://www.muslimedia.com/archives/features98/saddam.htm
>
> "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."
>

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