"Immediately after the 1968 revolution Saddam had been regarded by many Baathists as the 'weakest link' in the party." Funny, that's just what the Bolsheviks said about Stalin while Lenin, Trotsky, Bukharin, et al. consolidated power in the Soviet Union. Over the next 5 years Saddam spent his time, in his words, "dealing with the jackals." Like Stalin, he was mightily successful too; for ...


