CONCHO, I’m pretty sure any sailor reading this little exchange is going to take my side over yours. Saddam wasn’t a US creation, anymore than Osama. They chose anti-Americanism of their own free will. There was never any American funding of Osama, and your link doesn’t say anything to the contrary. Your French friends say that 9/11 would never have happened without American support of Osama. That’s blaming us.