Was Saddam /ourguy/? He was supported by the USSR for most of the Iraq-Iran war and was the most prominent Ba'athist between Nasser and Bashar Al Assad.
Was Saddam /ourguy/...
Nicholas Rodriguez
Adam Bailey
No, he was a counterrevolutionary deviant from the Ba'ath party, who dabbled in fascism. He later turned back on that and turned against his CIA masters, which was good, but doesn't make him "our guy."
No, the USSR had a questionable policy of moderately arming both sides with the aim of preventing a total victory for either, while working on a diplomatic peace.
Nasser wasn't a Ba'athist, Assad was certainly a truer representative of the Ba'ath movement and genuinely laudable in many respects.
Brody Watson
He was an American puppet installed in a coup against the pro-communist Qasim government. He then went around killing communists. Literally the people who killed him by invading Iraq put him into power, there is a video of one of the major Iraq shills in America chilling with him in the 1970s. Qasim was a hero of the proletariat of Iraq, Saddam's coup was a western attempt to end a genuine proletarian movement arising in the country.
This although while Nasser wasn't a baathist, he was a comrade. Fuck Eden.
Easton Cooper
I appreciate that Nasser was (by far) the best modern Egyptian leader, and that he was important as an anti-imperialist leader, but he really wasn't a "comrade," he suppressed communists.
Austin Russell
Stalin and Mao "suppressed communists," you have to give a more detailed and serious analysis than that.
Jacob Hill
I was under the impression Nasser actively allowed the communist party to operate just like Qasim did, I would be interesting to see some evidence to the contrary.
Christopher Green
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Caleb Walker
Nasser wasn't a Ba'athist at all. his party, that of pan-Arabists which more closely aligned with Qaddafi's Jamahiriya, was always at odds with the Ba'athists who were essentially social democrats whereas the pan-Arabists and green flags were always farther left.
Eli Bailey
Note; ba'athists are still better than anyone else in the mid-east right now.
Hunter Kelly
Really makes you think, Michael Parenti himself has written at length about how Saddam was the least revolutionary person to support in Iraq and that is a man who literally said Milosevic was essentially a modern day Stalin