Saddam

Despite the sanctions, Saddam Hussein outlasted the administration of Bush 41. Bush’s successor, Bill Clinton, continued the policy of sanctioning Iraq, combining them with UN weapons inspections to undermine Saddam Hussein.

And by the way, the Kurds were also allied with Iran all those years of Saddam because Saddam killed the Kurds.

Don't get me wrong, removing Saddam empowered a shiatload of fundamentalist assholes that were previously hunted for sport by Saddam.

At the same time, Aflaq managed to secure seats in the Iraqi Ba'ath leadership for his supporters, one them being Saddam. citation Saddam fled to Egypt in 1959, and he continued to live there until 1963.

He was commonly referred to as Saddam Hussein, or Saddam for short.

On 14 December, U.S. administrator in Iraq L. Paul Bremer confirmed that Saddam Hussein had indeed been captured at a farmhouse in ad-Dawr near Tikrit. citation Bremer presented video footage of Saddam in custody.

Saddam Hussein just after being captured In April 2003, Saddam's whereabouts remained in question during the weeks following the fall of Baghdad and the conclusion of the major fighting of the war.

Saddam routinely cited his survival as "proof" that Iraq had in fact won the war against the U.S. This message earned Saddam a great deal of popularity in many sectors of the Arab world.

Saddam's Iraq became "the third-largest recipient of U.S. assistance". citation Reacting to western criticism in April 1990 Saddam threatened to destroy half of Israel with chemical weapons if it moved against Iraq.

Saddam's officers looted Kuwait, stripping even the marble from its palaces to move it to Saddam's own palace.

The infant Saddam was sent to the family of his maternal uncle Khairallah Talfah until he was three. citation His mother remarried, and Saddam gained three half-brothers through this marriage.

When Rumsfeld visited Baghdad on December 20, 1983, he met Saddam Hussein at Saddam's palace and had a 90-minute discussion.

Aras Abid had every reason to want Saddam Hussein out of power after he was the sole survivor from his 12-member family from a gas attack ordered by the dictator on his Kurdish community in 1988.

A trial of three men accused of shipping arms-making machinery to Iraq collapsed after it became clear that the British government knew they were helping Saddam Hussein.

Born in Baghdad to a Kurdish family, Mr. Zahawi came to Britain at age 11, when his parents fled the tyranny of Saddam Hussein.

Donations to Palestinian terrorists were also made by Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, and Libyan tyrant Muammar Qaddafi.

During the first Iraq War (1990-91), PLO leader Yasser Arafat sided with Saddam Husein and suffered international isolation when Husein was humiliated by the US-led coalition armies.

For example, Saddam Hussein allegedly had weapons of mass destruction, which later turned out to be a lie.

He described the shocked reaction of UK intelligence chiefs when informed in 2001 - two years before the war - that the US was determined to bring down Saddam Hussein by force.

He says a confirmation bias led government experts to listen to fragments of information which supported the idea that Saddam Hussein had WMDs, and discount any that did not.