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OP is partially right. Saddam was installed by the CIA then for whatever reason (invasion of Kuwait) they decided they didn't want to be friends anymore.
The entire messed situation in the middle east and 911 is the result of blowback from funding these crazy islamist fuckers in the 80s. The US should never have funded and trained Bin Laden, they shouldn't have overthrown the Shah of Iran, they shouldn't have installed Saddam. US foreign policy is to blame for most of this stuff. The shit that went down during the cold war is to blame for a lot of that middle east meddling. Something right wingers have a hard time understanding, they just prefer to think these extremists 'hate the US way of life', that's only a part of it.
The worst part of the whole clusterfuck is how easily the lies about weapons of mass destruction fell from our politicians mouths. Also the billions of dollars privately held companies made from the war is disturbing, Eisenhower warned us all those years ago about the military industrial complex and privatization/corporatism of war, but we didn't listen...
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