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"If Saddam Hussein did not exist, we would have to invent him," wrote Fareed Zakaria, former editor of Foreign Affairs, in the September 16, 1996 issue of Newsweek. "He is the linchpin of American policy in the Mideast." As has been repeatedly documented in these pages over more than a decade, Saddam's dictatorship and war machine were generously underwritten, and carefully protected, by the same American political establishment that now takes credit for "liberating" the Iraqi people.
An April 10th UPI report documents that Saddam himself, as a ruthless thug in his early 20s, was cultivated by the CIA and used in an attempt to assassinate former Iraqi ruler Abd al-Kraim Qasim. "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 as a bulwark of ...