The fools believe that the US put Saddam into power...
read your history! We did!
No, we didn't. Saddam Hussein wasn't "put into power" by anyone, much less the United States. And the amount of weapons we sold to Hussein were less than the amount Denmark sold to him. Russia, China and France armed Saddam Hussein, not us.
A socialist, aligned with the Soviet Union, with dreams of destablizing the enitre region with a pan-arabic state, whose first act was to nationalize the Iraqi Oil companies.
Your assertion, presented with no factual basis, makes absolutely no sense with the either the leftist "U.S. policy is based on Oil Corportations" or the more realistic Cold War perogatives of the time.
Hussein came to power through climbing through the bathist ranks. The Bathe party was in power before he even took power himself. If you have some super CIA secret documents that show some kind of U.S. support please share, the world would like to see them too.
As far as the U.S. arming Hussein after he took power. This too, is nothing but fantasy.
Hold on while i get a pic up.
Ahem. You are wrong. Read The Threatening Storm by Kenneth Pollack which is considered the most authoritative book about Iraq written to date.
What history? The History according to the gullible.
Iraq was a Soviet client when saddam took power.