what has saddam done?

Question

i want straight facts not opinons!! and nothing about bush for god sakes! you cant change the world by saying hes dumb. i want to know crimes he has done and sources. NO OPINONS!

Answer 1

Here you go, straight from the media:

Reprisal Against Dujail
On July 8, 1982, Saddam Hussein was visiting the town of Dujail (50 miles north of Baghdad) when a group of Dawa militants shot at his motorcade. In reprisal for this assassination attempt, the entire town was punished. More than 140 fighting-age men were apprehended and never heard from again. Approximately 1,500 other townspeople, including children, were rounded up and taken to prison, where many were tortured. After a year or more in prison, many were exiled to a southern desert camp. The town itself was destroyed; houses were bulldozed and orchards were demolished.

Though Saddam's reprisal against Dujail is considered one of his lesser-known crimes, it has been chosen as the first for which he will be tried.


Anfal Campaign
Officially from February 23 to September 6, 1988 (but often thought to extend from March 1987 to May 1989), Saddam Hussein's regime carried out the Anfal (Arabic for "spoils") campaign against the large Kurdish population in northern Iraq. The purpose of the campaign was ostensibly to reassert Iraqi control over the area; however, the real goal was to permanently eliminate the Kurdish problem.

The campaign consisted of eight stages of assault, where up to 200,000 Iraqi troops attacked the area, rounded up civilians, and razed villages. Once rounded up, the civilians were divided into two groups: men from ages of about 13 to 70 and women, children, and elderly men. The men were then shot and buried in mass graves. The women, children, and elderly were taken to relocation camps where conditions were deplorable. In a few areas, especially areas that put up even a little resistance, everyone was killed.

Hundreds of thousands of Kurds fled the area, yet it is estimated that up to 182,000 were killed during the Anfal campaign. Many people consider the Anfal campaign an attempt at genocide.


Chemical Weapons Against Kurds
As early as April 1987, the Iraqis used chemical weapons to remove Kurds from their villages in northern Iraq during the Anfal campaign. It is estimated that chemical weapons were used on approximately 40 Kurdish villages, with the largest of these attacks occurring on March 16, 1988 against the Kurdish town of Halabja.

Beginning in the morning on March 16, 1988 and continuing all night, the Iraqis rained down volley after volley of bombs filled with a deadly mixture of mustard gas and nerve agents on Halabja. Immediate effects of the chemicals included blindness, vomiting, blisters, convulsions, and asphyxiation. Approximately 5,000 women, men, and children died within days of the attacks. Long-term effects included permanent blindness, cancer, and birth defects. An estimated 10,000 lived, but live daily with the disfigurement and sicknesses from the chemical weapons.

Saddam Hussein's cousin, Ali Hassan al-Majid was directly in charge of the chemical attacks against the Kurds, earning him the epithet, "Chemical Ali."


Invasion of Kuwait
On August 2, 1990, Iraqi troops invaded the country of Kuwait. The invasion was induced by oil and a large war debt that Iraq owed Kuwait. The six-week, Persian Gulf War pushed Iraqi troops out of Kuwait in 1991. As the Iraqi troops retreated, they were ordered to light oil wells on fire. Over 700 oil wells were lit, burning over one billion barrels of oil and releasing dangerous pollutants into the air. Oil pipelines were also opened, releasing 10 million barrels of oil into the Gulf and tainting many water sources. The fires and the oil spill created a huge environmental disaster.


Shiite Uprising & the Marsh Arabs
At the end of the Persian Gulf War in 1991, southern Shiites and northern Kurds rebelled against Hussein's regime. In retaliation, Iraq brutally suppressed the uprising, killing thousands of Shiites in southern Iraq.

As supposed punishment for supporting the Shiite rebellion in 1991, Saddam Hussein's regime killed thousands of Marsh Arabs, bulldozed their villages, and systematically ruined their way of life. The Marsh Arabs had lived for thousands of years in the marshlands located in southern Iraq until Iraq built a network of canals, dykes, and dams to divert water away from the marshes. The Marsh Arabs were forced to flee the area, their way of life decimated.

By 2002, satellite images showed only 7 to 10 percent of the marshlands left. Saddam Hussein is blamed for creating an environmental disaster.

Answer 2

kind of a narrow strike zone you're setting up there. One person's fact might be another person's opinion. That aside... Saddam was tried and convicted by an Iraqi court on this first count of whacking 142 males in a town where he thought somebody was trying to kill him first.

Not an opinion on my part. It was all over the news the past couple of weeks.

Answer 3

But, to get to the main point, let us assume that Saddam is guilty as charged and that his death so serves the cause of justice that it is worth heightened sectarian conflict and even full-fledged civil war. What did Saddam do that Bush, and Cheney, and Rumsfeld, and Blair have not done?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts180.html
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15582.htm

Answer 4

Saddam's big crime was to invade Kuwait and fall out of favor with the U.S. Government. He was being primed to be the point man in the middle east for the USA up until he invaded his neighbour to the south (the Shaw of Iran was the go-to guy for America until his people rised up against him and deposed him in favour of Ayatollah Komani and a Muslim base theocracy). Saddam went to war against Iran who became the enemy of the US after the embassy hostage crisis. It was during this time, we SUPPORTED Saddam and supplied him weapons that he massacred his own people, the Kurds. America turned a blind eye to this event and never spoke of it until a few years later when we went to war against him to liberate Kuwait. President George Bush Sr. decided rather than to despose with Saddam, he would "contain" him with strict "no-fly zones" in Iraq air space and mandatory weapon inspections by the UN. Saddam begrudgedly complied until seven years later when he wouldn't allow UN inspector to come to Iraq anymore.
SADDAM WAS OUR ALLIE, FIGHTING A WAR WITH IRAN WHEN HE MASSACRED HIS PEOPLE. AMERICA LOOKED THE OTHER WAY AND NEVER COMPLAINED ABOUT THIS UNTIL WE WENT TO WAR AGAINST HIM YEARS LATER.

If Saddam Hussain had not invaded Kuwait, he would most likely still be in power today as an important allie to the USA.

Answer 5

ordered the torture and death of over 1000 people, including iraqi civilians. He has slaughtered any group that has disagreed with him since coming into power. The nicname "the butcher of bagdad" has been well earned. These facts are available from many news sources including iraqi and irani sources.

Answer 6

He gassed his personal people, He had the girls people dealt with like sex slaves, They were not allowed to shoe any body area( consisting of their face being lined) He had youthful boys as close as 13 experienced to strive against and they were taught the thanks to kill AMERICAN'S. Plus saddam had like 50 little ones from diverse women people. He had 13 three hundred and sixty 5 days previous boys operating. in the course of the warfare, He informed each and every guy in his us of a: strive against or you'd be BEHEADED'!!!! He killed our AMERICAN infantrymen in 1992 in the course of the firsr warfare. (That wasen't finished) He took our soldier's into POW some were killed, Tongues were ripped out and beheaded. Killed our channel 4 information reportor(From long island) He purely talked to his 4 little ones by satallite minutes formerly he replaced into killed. Our AMERICAN FLAG replaced into being burned and that all of them danced round it. they'd Mr. trees grave waiting for him, to boot does BIN-weighted down. favor we are saying extra????? by no potential forget 911 both. GOD BLESS u.s. AND OUR SOLIER'S!

Answer 7

the man has had thousands of his people killed by testing his chemical weapons on yhem, he also had soccer players savagedly beaten for their perfomance, the man was a vicious dictator and regardless of what is said about bush the man saved countless people by his capturing Saddam!

Answer 8

Saddam run his country for 33 years very nasty and organised people to be killed

Answer 9

He invaded Kuwait and destablized the region.

Answer 10

Simple,
Currently he is getting hanged for she charges of killing a few hundreds of people from a village ( i forgot the village name ) of Shiite people ( one a sect in Iraq) . He killed them because a few men of Shiite tried to assasinate Saddam.For that reason he wanted to wipe out the entire village of Shiite people. He claimed, killing them ( rather wiping them out ) is an act of self defence.
He is getting hanged for that.

Answer 11

He killed over 5 million people!