Saddam Imposed by US?

[Michael Pugliese]

Imposed? Nah, the Iraqi Ba'athist regime didn't benefit in '68 from covert
actions directed from Langley, Va, CIA and NSC in the WH,
that installed the Shah in '53 or the Colonel that overthrew Arbenz in
Guatemala the year after. Sure, about 500 million dollars in agricultural
credits from the Reagan administration freed up other resources that  helped
the regime slaughter thousands more Kurds during the Iran-Iraq War (new
article in the NYRB by Samantha Power sez
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15183
claims 100,000+ killed) but, any reading of sources like the Patrick
Cockburn, Said Aburush (just recently became familiar with that prolific
journalist) or the ex-Trotskyist, Iraqi exile Kanan Makiya in, "Republic of
Fear, " (see the U.C. Press re-issue) will show that the regime, however
opportunistic subsequent USG support, was a product of Iraqi political
dynamics, in the main.

   A couple of accts. on the web I just skimmed, all say the CIA had it's
hands in the earlier '63 military coup though. This
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/7672/iraq.html
from a UK left communist collective does not say anything about the CIA and
'68. This Kurdish webpg. does not either,
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:mftPrtL2Sb8C:home.nordnet.fr/~sdara/sad
dam3.shtml+Baathist+regime+coup+CIA+1968&hl=en
Michael Pugliese