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No, the lead is that you claimed America “made Saddam”, and that’s laughably untrue.
They aided him in his atrocities, giving him the means. Hence, they facilitated him, by definition. It helps to have friends in high places.
Furthermore, US aid was to keep Iran from overrunning Iraq, and only started(along with much larger scale French and Russian aid, but gee, somehow progressives never notice that) after his invasion had failed.
You do realize that America doesn't own the Middle East, right?
Saddam invaded Saudi Arabia as well. The point is that he saw weakness and, much like hundreds of two bit tyrants before him, tried to exploit that.
What about the tyrants in Saudia Arabia?
You being totally okay with a regime conducting forty years of mass torture and terrorist attacks(and killing Americans to boot) “because Saudi Arabia” is pathetic.
I'm not okay with killing a million civilians, creating instability and migrant crisis across the entire Middle East to take down a thug on par with a Saudi royal. Especially one America helped to create.