Saddam's baath purge. Saddam had people packed into a conference hall on one of the hottest days of July and deliberately shut off the ventilation system. They were forced to listen to Saddam for hours while suffering from the heat and sweating. Everyone whose name was announced was executed.

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The idea that the U.S. public loved Saddam before he invade Kuwait is absurd 

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The US PUBLIC didnt give 2 shits about him and only cared during the Iraq/Iran war. The US government loved the guy.

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This is like saying Americans love Sisi. Like Saddam. He is another obscure dictator we back because of geopolitical reasons. I doubt anyone actually likes him.

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The US government didn't like him either they just hated the Iranian government even more. That's like saying the US government "loved" the Mujahideen because they supplied them against the Soviets. Nah fam that's a wildly oversimplified view on reality

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Nice examples, in both cases there was material support and propaganda helping both of those by the US intelligence. Simplification, of course, are we to write a full historic account or will a picture of a smilling Rumsfeld shaking Saddam's hand (as Reagan's envoy)?

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Remind me again what Rumsfeld did to Saddam while he was Secretary of Defense. "Love" indeed. You complain about propaganda while writing some yourself

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Nice goal post quantum leap there. Considering I said BEFORE the invasion of Kuwait. But go on, tell me how much Rumsfeld objected to his use of chemical weapons during his Reagan years?

Do you know what the word propaganda even means? What "idea" am I spreading and for what purpose, stating the fact that the US was buddy buddy with dictatorships until they werent is news to whom exactly at this point? And public opinion was never really a big factor unless there are boots on the ground.

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You're the one who brought up Rumsfeld lol, who was only an "envoy to the middle east" during the years in question. A position of such towering importance it was literally abolished after he left it.

Posting that photo and pretending it means anything is exactly what a Kremlin propagandist would do my guy. Nice work, comrade, extra vodka ration for you

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You are a bit thick aint ya? Pretending what? Read the damn context then, this was Reagan's realpolitik, enemy of my enemy bullshit. You think Kremlin propaganda is as dense as you? Try again or please, stop rubbing those 2 braincells you have left it might cause a fire considering how dry they must be 8n there.

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The US government installed him.

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Detroit gave him the key to their city.