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To: Lou Weed who wrote (133961)	5/22/2004 8:23:11 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) of 281500

I simply pointed out that the CIA were a major force in his climbing to power for our self interests Evidence, please? None of the bios of Saddam I've seen say that the CIA had a dog in those intra-Ba'athist fights, and once Saddam did make it to power, he became much closer to the Soviets than to us. No sorry, this just sounds like the old every-dictator-is-really-the-fault-of-the-USA-because-of-the-CIA line that gets trotted out, evidence not necessary. I don't buy it. Saddam's regime was always far closer to the French and the Russians, from beginning to end. The US only gave him help, which was still relatively minor help, in the 1980s, in the furtherance of the 'keep'em fighting' policy we had during the Iran-Iraq war, a piece of cynical realpolitik that was most heartily endorsed by every single other state in the Gulf region. You want to talk about a policy that was really popular with our allies, that was it.

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