Does the West really fight evil? Or does it manufacture it, fund it, feed it, and then destroy it the moment it stops being useful? How many of history’s “villains” were homegrown in the very capitals that later swore to eliminate them? And how many more will be created before we stop buying the ticket?

This is one such story. A story born in the deserts of Iraq.

Baghdad, 1959

A 22-year-old with a thin moustache and a burning mission. Trained by shadows. Backed by stars.

The CIA’s newest project: Saddam Hussein.

His first assignment? Assassinate Iraq’s Prime Minister. He fails.

But America sees potential in failure. They smuggle him to Egypt. Educate him. Shape him. Sharpen him into a blade they will one day turn inward.

The Rise of a Useful Monster

By 1968, Saddam returns home. Rides in with the Ba’ath Party coup.

Vice President of Iraq by day, architect of a brutal secret police by night — using CIA-provided lists of dissidents.

The message from Washington is clear: You can be a monster, so long as you are our monster.

The Iran–Iraq War: A Contract Killing

In 1980, Saddam invades Iran. Not for religion or ideology, but because the West needs a hired gun to kneecap Ayatollah Khomeini’s revolution.

Two years later, Iraq is quietly removed from the US Terror Sponsor list. The reward?

• Attack helicopters.
• Nerve gas precursors.
• Anthrax cultures.
• Targeting computers. 

In 1983, Donald Rumsfeld flies to Baghdad, shakes Saddam’s hand, and smiles for the cameras.

From 1983 to 1988, the CIA sends Saddam satellite intelligence. He uses it to drop chemical bombs. Thousands of Iranians and Kurds die.

America shrugs. In the Cold War, corpses are just counters on a geopolitical board.

The Fatal Misstep

In 1990, Saddam grows overconfident. Invades Kuwait. This wasn’t in the CIA script.

1991’s Operation Desert Storm bombed the very weapons America had supplied. The Iraqi military they trained was dismantled. But Saddam was left alive — a wounded hound, still useful for regional containment.

The Endgame

By 1998, the Iraq Liberation Act makes “regime change” official US policy.

Then, in 2000, Saddam commits the ultimate sin: selling oil in euros instead of dollars. The petrodollar bleeds.

Post-9/11, Iraq has no role in the attacks, but the script needs a villain. Intelligence is twisted. The stage is set.

2003: Shock & Awe

Baghdad burns under the most intense aerial bombardment in modern history. Saddam is captured and hanged.

No weapons of mass destruction are found. The Duelfer Report confirms it.

But Iraq lies in ruins. Oil contracts are signed. And out of the chaos, ISIS is born — another monster for another chapter.

The Rise & Fall of Saddam Hussein: A Timeline of US Involvement

The Script Repeats

By 2023, the actors have changed, but the play remains the same. Israel and Iran dance to the familiar music of proxy wars. Manufactured consent marches on.

1953: The CIA overthrows Iran’s democracy.

1979: Iran revolts and becomes the “enemy.”

Now, Israel finds itself cast in the role once reserved for Saddam.

History doesn’t repeat itself exactly.

It rhymes — with the same puppeteers, different marionettes.

Religion is not the reason. Terror is not the enemy. The true commodities are profit, power, and control.

Every flag is a sales pitch. Every corpse a press release.

And somewhere, a child grows up hating a flag he has never seen.

So, the question is not, “Will they create the next monster?” The question is — will we keep falling for the same story? Will we keep chanting freedom while marching into another trap? Or will we finally learn that the real war was never about them versus us, but about those who ‘profit’ from making monsters in the first place?