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Originally posted by UnseenWorld
Selectively reading again? This headline from the article seems a lot less positive than your subject line: "U.S. ROLE ALLEGED IN SADDAM'S RISE" (go to the dictionary and look up "alleged").
Once again, you LEAP to believe anything negative about the US, even if it is just alleged.
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Hardly. Here is a direct quote from the article:
"At the time, Saddam was a Baath operative studying law in Cairo, one of the places where the CIA chose to plan the coup, Morris says. In fact, he claims the former Iraqi ruler castigated by U.S. President George W. Bush as one of history's most "brutal dictators,"
was actually on the CIA payroll in those days
U.S. ROLE ALLEGED IN SADDAM'S RISE
Five years later, in 1968, Morris says the CIA encouraged a palace revolt among Baath Party elements led by long-time Saddam mentor Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, who would turn over the reins of power to his ambitious protege in 1979.
"It's a regime that was unquestionably midwived by the United States, and the (CIA's) involvement there was really primary," Morris said.
His version of history is a far cry from current American rhetoric about Iraq -- a country that top U.S. officials say has been liberated from decades of tyranny and given the chance for a bright democratic future without making mention of America's own alleged role in giving birth to the regime.