[jb6]

"The CIA has been organizing "regime change" for 50 years. They have removed many governments that are unfriendly to US corporate interests and replaced them with regimes that are more likely to work closely and slavishly to carry out the economic and geopolitical desires of the US corporate elite. But the CIA's crimes don't end when a right-wing coup has succeeded. The CIA then has to keep its repressive despots in power in order to ensure that they can put into place and then maintain a variety of unjust economic systems and structures. This is done with arms sales (and outright gifts of "surplus" weapons), glowing diplomatic support, "intelligence support" (sic) and massive economic investment (i.e., pillaging as much profit as possible by exploiting the natural resources that drew them in there in the first place, and handing out some of the spoils to a loyal local elite).

This is crap, but the fact is, we helped put Saddam's Baathaist into power to remove the communists who had over thrown the king. That is a fact. We also removed the two predicessors in the Baathast Regime.

[MNJohnnie]

This is crap, but the fact is, we helped put Saddam's Baathaist into power to remove the communists who had over thrown the king. That is a fact. We also removed the two predicessors in the Baathast Regime

Absolute completely wrong. A total 100% factually incorrect statement. You are completey WRONG. What you are thinking of is the CIA aiding the Shah of IRAN in 1953 to launch a counter coup against a KGB sponsered "peoples revolution" in IRAN. The US Govt had NOTHING to do with Saddam's rise to power. The Baathists were SOVIET CLIENTS. You are completely and totally ignorant of even the most BASIC facts of Iraq's history. Please do NOT arrogant repeat such utter falsehoods.