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Saddam's Baath party were no longer "secular socialists" by the time of the US invasion. Saddam Hussein had begun pivoting towards islamism already in 1993. Thi
by Mediterraneo10 7y ago
Saddam's Baath party were no longer "secular socialists" by the time of the US invasion. Saddam Hussein had begun pivoting towards islamism already in 1993. This had little to do with any direct US actions, and can to a large extent be blamed on the collapse of the USSR and Eastern Bloc, which discredited the secular Arab socialist traditions as a viable force.