and IMPORTANTLY that both Sadaam Hussein and Gamal Nasser were Baathists.
Oh dear me, do you actually believe that? Sorry, just the fact that you even said that screams your actual ignorance of the region and that your knowledge is not even skin deep.
Yes, Saddam was Ba'athist. So was the founder of the al-Assad Dynasty as well as the current government. I am pretty sure I discussed that before, but whatever I will discuss it yet again.
Want to know who was not a Ba'athist and who actually despised them? Gamal Abdel Nasser. He actually never gave any title to the political system he created, most call it "Nasserism", while he simply called it "Pan-Arabism". And want to know one of the big reasons why he detested the Ba'athists? I know I discussed this already, but I will go over it again briefly right now.
Back in the era when Syria was going through multiple Ba'athist coups and countercoups and almost eating itself (including the Year of the Three Colonels), Nasser was highly critical of that party. Even trying to bring some of the higher ranking members of the Syrian Ba'athist party to Cairo to try and stop all the internal bloodshed going on there.
He had even been working to try and stabilize Iraq as well, but then Syria got involved in that too, sending in Pro-Ba'athist forces from Syria to put down a movement to replace Ba'athism with Nasserism in Mosul, which as you should know is in Iraq. Ba'athists in both Syria and Iraq then went on purges and wiped out most Nasserites in both countries. The end response was yet another of the multiple Ba'athist against Ba'athist coups in Syria, but this one removed them from the UAR.
The fact is, Nasser detested the Ba'athists and always had. He detested their thuggery, their barbarity and their brutality. Even though both wanted "Pan-Arabism", for Ba'athists it was only their way and in their terms. If Nasser was a far left Socialist, the Ba'athists were the Khmer Rouge.
Sorry, I lost absolutely all interest in reading anything else you have to say after this after that kind of mistake, it is so incredibly wrong that now I have to question if anything you say has any connection with reality because you are apparently just making it all up as you go along.
I also said before that some should have score cards to keep the various groups separate. Apparently that needs to apply to 7 decade old political movements and not just the ones there at the present time.
Claiming Nasser was a Ba'athist is like trying to claim Thomas Jefferson was a Tory.