Rhetorical Devices In Saddam Hussein's Speech

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Saddam Hussein's Speech; Rhetorical Analysis From 1917 to 1991 Shiite Arabs of southern Iraq and Kurds of northern Iraq, known as Kurdistan, suffered under the aggressive behavior of Iraqi government which was mostly controlled by Sunnis in that time. These two parts of Iraq were attacked by the government aircrafts. Due to attacks that are lunched against Kurds and Shiite, after 1991, United State, United Kingdom, and France together put a limit to the flying zone of Iraqi's aircrafts, threatening to attack Iraq unless they obey. The limited area was the southern and northern parts of Iraq. But Iraq avoided to obey this restriction and continued the attacks. on Sep,3 1996, United States lunched some missile attacks on defense command …show more content…
people recognize him as an aggressive leader and he is also recognized for the conflicts that he bring to Iraq such as the war with Iran which took 8 years- from 1980 to 1988- resulting in death of thousands and millions of people in both sides, and it is known as "First Persian Gulf War". He was also known for his fearful speeches that were given by him to government members. As I mentioned in first paragraph, this speech was given after the missile attacks on defense command centers by United States. The speech was given in public and then first appeared in "Iraq TV" and as well as in CNN news. He gave this speech …show more content…
His speech was well planned and he used pathos and ethos effective enough to send the message that he wanted the people to know. He convinced his army to fight back .However; making his troops to fight back was something suicide because the Iraqi army was not mach to the missile attacks and aircrafts of United State. In convincing, motivating and putting fear in the mind of his enemies, he was much like Adolf Hitler- the president of German in 1934. He could convince his army to attack the most powerful countries.For example; He attacked Iran and without finishing the fight with Iran he started to attack

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