Saddam Hussein

States sent aid to Israel causing the oil embargo of 1973. Among these conflicts, a little-known president, Saddam Hussein, would grow to become one of the worst leaders since World War II, and cause a seven year war between Iraq and other nations. The Iraq War was a conflict in which the United States and coalition forces destroyed the regime of Saddam Hussein to establish a democratic government and stabilize Iraq. Saddam Hussein was a powerful…

Saddam Hussein was known as a great leader to some but most people know him as a terrorist and a murder. Saddam was born April 28, 1937 in Al-Awja, Iraq and died December 30 2006 in Kadhimiya, Iraq. He was born to a peasant family and later as a teenager Saddam became an anti-British, Arab nationalist ideology of the day. Saddam went to college to study law at the University of Baghdad but later dropped out and joined a party called Ba’ath and the party had a plan to assassinate the Prime…

The roots of the Iraqi conflict begins and ends with the whole entirely story of Saddam Hussein in Iraq is one of terror, killing, and colonizing dreams. However, in 1979 Saddam Hussein took power (Rayment, 2007). Saddam was on a mission to take over and get things running and done his way that he did not wait to start a battle with his dominant neighbor, Iran. The war lasted approximately for 8 years (Rayment, 2007). Shortly after the end of the war a raid was propelled in Kuwait. His fast…

Saddam Hussein had the power before he became president in 1979. He and the Baath party dominated Iraq until Saddam was removed by the US invasion in 2003.The reasons that made Saddam invade Kuwait are Kuwait refused to forgive debt Iraq had run up during Iran-Iraq war. Second, 1897 map shows Kuwait is a part of Iraq and separated by the British. In fact, all the Iraqi leaders had claimed that Kuwait had been wrongfully split off from Iraq. Also, the UN imposed hard economic sanctions on Iraq,…

Imagine this; a man in Iraq is fighting for his country. While he is not on his homeland, he is fighting for what that homeland’s beliefs stand for. He is fighting to free the country of Kuwait. This man is a soldier of the United States Army. Kuwait is under siege by its neighboring country of Iraq and its dictator, Saddam Hussein. This dictator once said that “Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another.” Saddam Hussein said this quote during his…

are names like Niccolo Machiavelli, Adolf Hitler, and Saddam Hussein. Throughout history, leaders such as these have lied and manipulated other to achieve their own ends. These men lived by creeds that allowed them to believe that they were perfectly justified in misleading the people they lead. I fear what will happen to this country after the 2017 elections for president are to come. I see no great candidates. The most recent of these leaders, Saddam Hussein, was quoted saying, “Politics is…

that's exactly what Saddam Hussein did. Saddam is a terrorist and he's the president of Iraq. Saddam Hussein was president of Iraq and became a terrorist and took over the military systems. Saddam Hussein was an orphan as a child, became president of Iraq, and was exiled from his country. First Saddam, the son of peasants, was born in a village near the city of Tikrit in northern Iraq. The area was one of the poorest in the country. He was also orphaned in his early life. Saddam himself grew…

As one might describe, a dictator is a leader with total power over a nation. This power is typically obtained by force. Many dictators rule in fear and inflict terror upon people in the nation in which they govern. Within a dictatorship, one’s entitlement to speak freely is most commonly revoked because basic rights and freedom are not available. Two dictators that suppressed freedom of speech under their governing nations are Macbeth, a character from the play “Macbeth” by William…

On July 19th 1979 Saddam Hussein began his dictatorship in Iraq and from that day on history was changed. Iraq was in the middle of a religious war between the Sunni’s and the Shi’ites. Sunni’s and Shi’ites continue to have the disagreement about something that happened 1400 years ago after the death of prophet Muhammad. Shi’ites believe that in order to rule you have to be a descendent of Muhammad. Mean while the Sunnis believe otherwise. When Saddam took control of the country their economy…

removal of Saddam Hussein, the President of Iraq, from power. The war lasted for eight years and had everlasting effects on the United States and Iraq. The argument of whether the United States should have invaded Iraq is a complicated and multifaceted one; a number of prior events occurring at the time must be taken into account as well as the aftermath of the war must…