The US supported the 1968 coup that brought the Ba’ath Party – and Saddam – to power. With Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990, however, the US turned on him, and has been entwined in Iraq’s politics ever since, including two wars, sanction regimes, the toppling of Saddam in 2003, and repeated attempts, as recently as this month, to install a government that it considered acceptable.
在美国的支持下，1968年复兴党（Ba’ath Party）和萨达姆通过政变问鼎权力。但是，1990年萨达姆入侵科威特后，美国又把枪口对准了他，并且越来越深地干预伊拉克政治，包括发动两场战争、制裁伊拉克政府、2003年推翻萨达姆以及反复尝试（如这个月所发生的事情所证明的）扶持它认为可接受的政府。