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Why did US officials decide to leave Saddam Hussein in charge of Iraq after the Persian Gulf War?

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They feared that chaos would engulf Iraq in the absence of a strong leader.

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President Bush was hoping that with the combination of economic sanctions, military containment and no flight zones, that Saddam's own regime would revolt against him and remove him from power without any either US involvement
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