Saddam Hussein

Iraq: Oasis of Conflict At the heart of the only planet in our galaxy known to harbor life, lies a land known in the bible as the “Empire of Man”. This land is where the great ark of Noah was built, and not far from there was the fruitful garden of Eden. This area is Babylon, Land of Shinar and Mesopotamia. Not many know the origins of some of these great stories and history of humanity. The current name of this part of the world in which change and chaos is the norm, is Iraq. The name…

Some of the differences in meaning between words “terror” and “terrorism” according the author are that “Terror was still a name for intense fear, but it no longer connoted a social force.”(10) rather than “terrorism”, witch by modern times refers only to the “use of violence against a government, not on its behalf” (11) During the French revolution according to Nunberg the traditional definition of terror changes from “is nothing other than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible; it is therefore…

Education is very important to me because of what my parents had to go through to give us a proper education. My father had to leave my mother and flee because Saddam Hussein was after him, his brother and nephew. My mother had had just given birth to my youngest older brother, Durgham, when my father had to flee. My parents eventually met up years later in Nashville Tn. My father had to work three jobs just to provide for my mother and my brothers. Education is very important to me because of…

Saddam would make a statement in regards to withdrawing from Kuwait under special conditions. These conditions would be that Israeli people must withdraw from Arab territories, Iraq’s debts will be forgiven and that the United States and Coalition forces…

piece really is Iran.”1 Truly, the support for Iraq in the Iran-Iraq War was tremendous considering the state of relations only a decade earlier. At this one point, one must consider why the United States would support the Soviet backed regime of Saddam Hussein in the first place. As mentioned previously, the United States did not necessarily want Iraq to win the war, but it certainly did not want Iran to win. If Iran won, the administration feared the imminent destabilization of the Middle East…

failed coup to topple Saddam Hussein, and diplomatic relations between the two nations soured completely. In the same way as they sought to topple Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran in 1953, they sought to rid Iraq of the Ba'athist government, installing a pro-Western power in the Middle East. In May 1991 President Bush signed a presidential directive instructing the CIA to work to create conditions to allow for the removal of Hussein. This included working alongside anti-Hussein groups within Iraq,…

Muhammad Ali is an American hero. Muhammad’s original name was Cassius Clay Jr. He was born on January 17, 1942 in Louisville. Kentucky. He now lives in Scottsdale, Arizona. Muhammad was known as one of the greatest athletes n boxing. As a teenager he won both the National Amateur Athletic Union and Golden Gloves Championships. At eighteen years old, he competed in the 1960 Olympics in Rome, Italy and won the gold medal. In 1984, Muhammad was diagnosed with Parkinson center in Phoenix, Arizona.…

The Middle East is a region with a very interesting history. One of the major superpowers of World War I, The Ottoman Empire, rose to power there, and shortly afterward, once World War II ended, Israel was created there too. The establishment of Israel proved to be a problem, as the Jewish nation would have to take land originally belonging to Palestinians. This is not the only situation where land has been an issue in the Middle East; land was also responsible for the Persian Gulf War. The…

Going back to the Iraq War, After Hussein was captured; the citizen in Iraq ironically did not gain any resources and freedom. In a Huffington Post article by Daniel Raphael, 8 percent of Iraqi children are malnourished, and 70 percent lack clean drinking water. This ironically was worse than 2003 when the Iraq War begin. The Causalities after Hussein was capture also staggering. After 2003, when the Iraq war start to kick in gear, they were…

A primary reason to concur with the assigned source relates to a totalitarian regime’s use of mass execution and genocide, which results in the monitoring and responding by anti-totalitarian councils and international powers, notably the United States, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and human rights organizations. In terms of the essay, the term “monitoring” is defined as maintaining constant surveillance, in simple terms, spying, over a country or person, while “responding”, is…