The US helped install Hussein. But it was a rocky road after that.
Please, I would love to hear how, you going to start in the 1930's when Iraq became a nation, which of course makes Iraq a young nation, less then a hundred years old. I wonder why we did not dust off that old Constitution of Iraq's when we liberated the people of the murderous dictator Saddam. It was a great Constitution.
Um..
BAATH PARTY COMES TO POWER
On February 8, 1963, the Baath Party, in collaboration with a few army officers, staged a coup d’état and killed Qassem. Hussein immediately left Cairo and arrived in Baghdad, where he became a midlevel internal security official. This was also when he married his maternal cousin, Sajidah Khayr Allah Tilfah. Qassem’s downfall was apparently not the exclusive result of his mistake of denying the Communists weapons, nor of the Baath Party’s talent for staging coups. According to reliable sources, the coup was supported, if not actually engineered, by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Starting in 1959, the CIA identified Qassem as a sworn enemy of the United States and a staunch ally of the Soviet Union.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Saddam_Hussein.aspx
I've also read that after the botched assassination attempt on Qassem, the CIA helped Hussein when he was on the mend.
Why not start at the begining and work your way forward, that way we can see that you can see the exact history of what you speak.
According to what you just posted, it states that the CIA identified an enemy of the USA. That is there job correct, you see that as wrong or evil, to identify potential threats. The coup was supported by the CIA, really, how, your just making the claim its supported, you have not shown that the CIA did a thing, even the person you quote is clear that they are just speculating. The author explicitely does not state that the CIA engineered the Baath parties rise to power.
You folks use the word "support" loosely, as loose as when a coup happens, if we do nothing except state our policy of non-interference and continue diplomatic relations with the new leadership, this is called "support".
According to reliable sources, the coup was supported, if not actually engineered, by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
Sallow, I am assuming the only relevant fact from your link you posted, if there is more I need know of your link you should post it or add a bit of your own commentary.
Iraq is one country we never supported nor had good diplomatic relations with, no matter who the leader was. Of course the world should of supported the original leader, a decndant of the Sherif of Mecca, I think it was a son of the Sherif, "installed" strictly by the British. Iraq is if anything, created by the British, fault us for doing as we must in light of the difficulty of rebuilding and educating the Middle East after centuries of neglect and backwardness.
I sit here in Brazil and honestly believe the best thing that can happen anywhere in the world is to give the USA complete control, not the current dumb ass politicains but give us, the people the control. Our government is best for everyone in the world.
Go to our supermarket and look at all that evil capitalism, how I dream of decent food at a cheap price as I struggle in Brazil, yesterday I suffered rotten eggs, our draconian custom of keeping eggs cold to keep them fresh is not tolerated in this country, as I walk to the market I see a few private individuals, with eggs out on the table, that is outside, in Brazil, during the summer, when its 105 degrees out. Two weeks ago I had a bloody egg, yesterday was the first time I could stomach using eggs, my 5 year old grabbed an egg and it literally broke in a rotten mess in his tiny hands. I am disgusted with the third world.
These idiots need a good dose of old fashion American Sanitation. You know when you shit in the third world you are to save the toilet paper and throw it in a waste basket instead of just dropping it into the toilet.
Yet we are faulted as being bad for people in the third world, we are going to exploit them by selling White Cloud toilet paper and Mr. Clean toilet bowl cleaner.
Our ideas of using three wires to bring safe electricity to a home is an Imperialistic idea we are attempting to force on others simply out of greed and profit.
How about all the disease we eliminated, imagine the horror for the mothers of children who they no longer fear going blind because that terrible Oil man, Rockefeller thought it was his God-ordered responsibility to spend his profits curing a terrible disease.
At best we have appeased the world due to political correctness.
"We must accept our responsibility, we are the worlds leader, not by our choice, but by the events of history that forced us into our position. This is our time, we must lead." I paraphrased a tiny bit, this was told to me as I walked along a road in Bahia Brazil, a man overheard me speaking English to my wife, he spoke some English, lived in the USA, he stated his biggest mistake in his life was coming back to Brazil, that his dream was to die in the USA. He stated we were screwing up, this was one month for 9/11. He told me that the USA has no choice but to lead the world, that we are the best for the world.
After living the last four years in Brazil, minus some part time work in the USA and Spain, I can state that this place is a dirty dump that needs a bomb of Ammonia dropped on it. They sweep and I mean that literally yet its a dirty dump with unsanitary practices.
We have not asserted ourselves as we should, not once, we must demand, no more of this so called "support", those with the educaton are to lead.
amazing that the americasn sheople think watergate was the worst crime Nixon ever committed instead of realising he put a dictater in power who murdered millions. Presidents instead of wanting to nothing to do with them,cajol them and have lunch with them like clinton did having a jolly old good time with suharto.he learned from suharton how to murder people who got in his way.
He worships everything the LAMESTREAM media tells him everyday.
