Why do l believe we should go into Baghdad in 1991 to take out Saddam Hussein instead of just libera, page 1

Originally posted by Paulioetc15
reply to post by buster2010

You did know we were responsible for him being in office in the first place didn't you?

No, Saddam Hussein got himself in power as the Baath Party leader in 1968 and as a leader of Iraq in 1979. You're so clueless. BTW back to my thread please and stay on topic. Read my information up there and tell me what you think of it.

The reason why we stopped is because our puppet Hussein decided to toe the line again.

Wrong.

The CIA was responsible for putting him in office. You are the one that's clueless here.

In early 1963, Saddam had more important things to worry about than his outstanding bill at the Andiana Cafe. On February 8, a military coup in Baghdad, in which the Baath Party played a leading role, overthrew Qassim. Support for the conspirators was limited. In the first hours of fighting, they had only nine tanks under their control. The Baath Party had just 850 active members. But Qassim ignored warnings about the impending coup. What tipped the balance against him was the involvement of the United States. He had taken Iraq out of the anti-Soviet Baghdad Pact. In 1961, he threatened to occupy Kuwait and nationalized part of the Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC), the foreign oil consortium that exploited Iraq's oil. In retrospect, it was the ClAs favorite coup. "We really had the ts crossed on what was happening," James Critchfield, then head of the CIA in the Middle East, told us. "We regarded it as a great victory." Iraqi participants later confirmed American involvement. "We came to power on a CIA train," admitted Ali Saleh Sa'adi, the Baath Party secretary general who was about to institute an unprecedented reign of terror. CIA assistance reportedly included coordination of the coup plotters from the agency's station inside the U.S. embassy in Baghdad as well as a clandestine radio station in Kuwait and solicitation of advice from around the Middle East on who on the left should be eliminated once the coup was successful. To the end, Qassim retained his popularity in the streets of Baghdad. After his execution, his sup- porters refused to believe he was dead until the coup leaders showed pictures of his bullet-riddled body on TV and in the newspapers.

Regime Change: How the CIA put Saddam's Party in Power