Who supported Saddam? Well, the Soviet Union and France sold
him the most weapons. The US was a distant third I believe. But I wouldn't blame any of the three for the poor quality of Iraq's leadership. That's strictly the fault of the Iraqis themselves. It's not as if an alternative Iraqi candidate presented itself promising to be the paragon of Jeffersonian democracy, but we all said, "No, we prefer Saddam because he keeps Iran in check."
The myth that the US created Saddam is similar to the myth that we created the Taliban or Osama Bin Laden. We didn't.