nothing to see here folks, move along, move along... 
How much trust should the average citizen invest in articles invoking the CIA as a source, and why?
nothing to see here folks, move along, move along... The Shah of Iran and Saddam Hussein were both bulwarks again Islamic extremism. Stupid Jimmy Carter knocked off the Shah. Then stupid George Bush II knocked off Saddam.
So now we have ISIS. And now we have Islamic extremism worldwide.
The only question left is who did more damage, Carter or Bush II? I vote for Bush II, without any hesitation. Bush II did more than just remove an obstacle to the caliphate. He got a lot of people killed in the process.
I will now retreat to my underground bunker while the Bush apologists post about how Saddam had all those WMDs, WMDs that the Bush administration could did not find.
And no, pictures or rumors don’t count. If we had really found WMDs, Bush and Cheney would have called a news conference to brag about it. But there was no news conference.
Is this “Nixon” CIA yokle the caliber of folks we trusted with top level intelligence gathering?
I think some one is lying.
Al Arabiya is posting this now and that’s good, everyone should know this. I’m just saying, these articles and on Nixon’s book have been in the news for the past 2 months. Hindsight, 20/20 as they say.
Wow. This Saddam appologist seem to put out a lot of fake news. Was this guy really in charge of interogation?
I was at BIAP when the last load of yellow cake was flown to Canada, one of many such secret flights lasting a year.
Executing Saddam was in my opinion the wrong thing to do.
If I was the CIA, Saddam would be living at a nice (not sumptuous) house on an island in the lower Pacific with a few very armed guards.
Maybe a few more armed guards.
He knew more about mideast policies and the workings of Iraq than anyone else.
The US Ambassador, April Glaspie, made the mistake of not being clear with Saddam that the USA did have problems with Saddam’s desires to settle the Iraq/Kuwait border. She met with him a few days before the invasion. Likewise, Dean Acheson implied that the Korean peninsula lay outside the US’s defense perimeter. Today, some people may be sending the wrong sign to Putin by bad mouthing NATO and giving the idea that we will not stand by our treaty with those 28 nations. Let’s hope Putin’s not so foolish.