Britain and France were the most powerful empires 100 years ago and they destabilized the middle east.
The USA didn't have any real power to shape the world order because the USA didn't enter the war until just before it ended so they had no influence at the peace tables.
The USA only got a seat at the peace table after World War 2 but after that conflict Russia destabilized the middle east for over 50 years to try to overthrow every country in the region and create client states.
Iraq was a client state of Russia and they armed Saddam and their vast armies that destabilized the region.
When the USA put sanctions on Iraq Russia kept Saddam in power by helping him bypass sanctions and buy military equipment.
This was after they invaded Afghanistan and created a civil war that ruined Afghanistan's economy and caused millions to starve so they could try to
The CIA installed Saddam.
After Iran ousted our dictator, the Shah, we ordered our other dictator, Saddam, to attack.
This led to a 10 year war in which we armed both sides.
We also sold chemical weapons to Saddam which he used on Iran.
The money from the weapon sales to Iran were then used to fund the Contra rebels.
Iran/Contra.
U.S. forces in Baghdad might now be searching high and low for Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, but in the past Saddam was seen by U.S. intelligence services as a bulwark of anti-communism and they used him as their instrument for more than 40 years, accord
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United Press International has interviewed almost a dozen former U.S. diplomats, British scholars and former U.S. intelligence officials to piece together the following account.
The CIA declined to comment on the report.
According to another former senior State Department official, Saddam, while only in his early 20s, became a part of a U.S. plot to get rid of Qasim.
The assassination was set for Oct. 7, 1959, but it was completely botched. Accounts differ.
One former CIA official said that the 22-year-old Saddam lost his nerve and began firing too soon, killing Qasim's driver and only wounding Qasim in the shoulder and arm.
While Saddam was in Beirut, the CIA paid for Saddam's apartment and put him through a brief training course, former CIA officials said.
The agency then helped him get to Cairo, they said.
But during this time Saddam was making frequent visits to the American Embassy where CIA specialists such as Miles Copeland and CIA station chief Jim Eichelberger were in residence and knew Saddam, former U.S. intelligence officials said.