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To: epicure who wrote (247251)	11/3/2007 10:15:08 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

"If you now think that your statement above might have been a mistake, then we agree. It was an opinion. It is still my opinion, maybe you think it is over stated but I don't ... I think your position of zero, zip, nada is overstated. There were lots of groups interested and actively engaged in setting up representative leadership in Iraq prior to Saddam. The region, was very volatile and subject to political change. The CIA was busy doing what they do and many historians believe their meddlesome behavior led to Saddam's success. It was once common for Middle Easterners to say Saddam was a CIA operative. I don't hear that anymore though. That was the common view I heard from Middle Easterners in the US in the 1990s, who universally claimed Iraqis would prefer a democracy, as would most other regions suffering under authoritarian rule but the US was interfering with true revolution because of economic interests. I accidentally saw a CIA badge in an old Iraqi man's brief case once in the nineties. When I asked him about it he denied it. So, I kept it to myself.