>> “And your source for this is what? <<
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How about good old common sense?
He was a puppet.
When the puppet got big ideas, he was snuffed.
That’s funny, common sense tells me that Saddam Hussein began as a pan-Arab supporter of the Ba’ath Party. And that the Saddam-as-CIA puppet story is rubbish.
Imagine that. Maybe that’s why claims of ‘common sense’ don’t work all that well. And it’s why people get challenged to provide evidence to back their claims.