How did Saddam Hussein come to power in Iraq?
Response to rating: Yeah, you can take it as a given that Americans have had a hand in just about everything in the Middle East for several decades. So that probably includes Saddam Hussein’s rise to power… but I think it would have happened on its own regardless. I don’t like Saddam Hussein; I don’t like America’s Middle East policy. So I chose to keep my answer more neutral/objective and not open what I know would be a big can of worms by talking about that. I figured I’d avoid long arguments, negative ratings, etc. But you can never talk about the Middle East without failing to satisfy someone. Sorry if things weren’t clear, Ahmed… I chose that quote because I figured that whoever asked the question was probably more interested in dates, Saddam Hussein’s earlier career,etc. and might have been turned off if I had started out with American political conspiracy theory right off the bat. Original answer: I quote from
