Saddam Hussein and his fall: Are we puppets in hands of America?

On my return to civilization, I discovered that the much hated Saddam Hussein was dead. No one is surprised over this, and I think most of the Western societies are relieved. Personally I couldn’t be care less. He did nothing to me. I am not sure wheather he was a bad man, but the (American) media portrayed him as a monster not only in the news, but also in movies and entertainment.
I mean when the Gulf War started when I was a mere 5 odd yrs old kid. Who was this man? I wouldn’t know. And the Western history sources are way to biased to tell me who the real Saddam was. To me he’s just some “evil” guy the world hated.
I don’t feel sorry for him. When you look at his face/eyes in some of the last pictures of him, you see no regret, no fear, nothing that could wake some sense of sorrow for the man.
But I’m sure that at some stage in his life, Saddam Hussein was a good man. He did some good for Iraq, especially the women, at some stage of his life. Maybe it was only to gain popularity? Who knows? Saddam saw himself as a social revolutionary and a modernizer, following the Nasser model. To the consternation of Islamic conservatives, his government gave women added freedoms and offered them high-level government and industry jobs. Saddam also created a Western-style legal system, making Iraq the only country in the Persian Gulf region not ruled according to traditional Islamic law (Sharia). Saddam abolished the Sharia law courts, except for personal injury claims. In the end I think Saddam fell in love with himself. Have you seen all the posters and statues of Hussein in and around Iraq? He was like a cult leader.
Also, on a bit of a side note, America more or less only got pissed off with Hussein in later years, long after the genocide. In the late 1980s, Reagan dispatched a very special envoy to the Middle East, one Donald Rumsfeld, who wined and dined Saddam even as the dictator was slicing and dicing the Kurds. Rumsfeld claims he warned Saddam about those bad old chemical weapons at the time, but the warning somehow got lost between his uttering it and the notes he submitted to the State Department describing the meeting.
U.S. companies were recruited and encouraged, both covertly and overtly, to ship poisonous chemicals and biological agents to Iraq, by the administrations of both Reagan and George Bush Sr., according to the Washington Post and numerous other reports. The CIA also followed up on these efforts with various military and intelligence assists.
U.S. care packages to Saddam included sample strains of anthrax and bubonic plague, which must have seemed like a really a great idea to someone at the time. With U.S. assistance and on its own initiative, Iraq also reportedly developed new and improved toxins, such as ricin and sarin gas.
Torture was another tool in the Iraqi dictator's arsenal. When interviewed by a British reporter who nervously asked him if he used torture against his political enemies, he seemed puzzled by the question. "Of course," he said. "What do you expect if they oppose the regime?"
Public sentiment in the U.S. slowly turned against Hussein into the early 1990s, what with all the gassing and killing and torture and whatnot, but policy lagged behind. Seeing the secular Iraq as a bulwark against the Islamic fundamentalists in Iran, the U.S. kept right on kissing Saddam's ass until he decided to invade Kuwait in 1991.
At that point, the gloves came off. It's one thing to slaughter your own people in genocidal attacks with outlawed weapons, but it's another thing entirely to screw with the steady output of black gold, the life's blood of the world. President Bush Sr. successfully united a coalition of nations and led an invasion that drove Iraq out of Kuwait and destroyed much of the country's infrastructure.
Funny actually. We can only shake our heads and smile at the leaders of the USA. Quite Strange a lot.America's invaded Iraq in search of biological and chemical weapons,Have they found a single one?If Saddam has been executed for killing 140 odd people of his country then what Bush(Jr.) is doing in white house?what about killing of lacs of iraqi people killed after America's invasion and 6000 odd American soldiers died in Iraq.These Damm blooody U.S polititions.
Anyway… I tried to see by myself who the man was, and I honestly think at some stage Saddam was a good man. But even good men can turn for the worst.