From: Phil Payne 

Randall Parker wrote:

> The United States didn't put Hussein in power. The US was not Hussein's
> big patron. The USSR and France were.

> 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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