It was not W., but the CIA that helped put the Ba'th party in power, clearing the way for Saddam to take over. Overthrowing soveriegn nations, democratically elected or not, is not a new thing to us and we've been at it for years. Bush Sr. was not head of the CIA at the time however, though he and many people who are now Bush Jr. cabinet members were big Saddam suporters. So no, Bush and friends didn't PUT Saddam in power, they just KEPT him in power for a while, as a pawn againt the Iranians, whose democratically elected government we'd also overthrown when they decided to nationalize thier oil, and whose puppet regime in turn was overthrown by religious psychpaths, the only critics our Iranian buddies hadn't managed to execute.
And that's no leftist, revisionist nonsense.
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