2006-12-30 22:49:19 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Saddam Hussein
Saddam joins the Ba'th party at the age of 20...attempts
assassination of Abdul Karim Qasim, Prime Minister of Iraq, flees to Egypt, for 4 years.
Age of 42, Saddam forces Al-Bakr to retire and is sworn in as President of the Republic of Iraq. President Bakr officially steps down. Saddam then holds the posts of President of the Republic, Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council, Secretary-General of the Ba'th Party Regional Command, Prime Minister, and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces.
Saddam grants himself a Staff Field Marshal army rank...removes Iraq's leadership, executes hundreds of top ranking Ba'thists and army officers, bombs Iranian airfields and Iraqi forces invade Iran.
1982 Former President Bakr dies mysteriously. It is widely suspected that Saddam is involved.
1987-1988 Saddam launches the Anfal campaign against the Kurds, in which some 180,000 "disappear." 4,000 villages are razed. Depopulation of large areas of eastern Kurdistan..the Kurdish town of Halabja is gassed using cyanide and mustard gas, 5,000 people perish, 10,000 suffer injuries.
1989 Adnan Khayrallah, Saddam's cousin, brother-in-law, popular army officer and Defense Minister, dies in a helicopter crash widely believed to be engineered by Saddam.
1990, Saddam Hussein ordered his forces to invade and occupy Kuwait, killed more than a thousand Kuwaiti nationals, committed many other crimes in Kuwait, including environmental crimes such as the destruction of oil wells in Kuwait's oil fields, massive looting of Kuwaiti property, held hostages from many nations in an effort to coerce their governments into pro-Iraqi policies.
1991,Saddam Hussein's forces killed somewhere between 30,000 and 60,000 Iraqis, most of them civilians...gassed his own people with chemical weapons and tortured children in front of their parents...despicable photographs of bloated bodies of mothers, their arms still wrapped around their dead children.
Saddam Hussein is finally held accountable for his 20 years of crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide.
2006-12-30 23:54:53 · answer #1 · answered by sadie_oyes 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Saddam was any thing but a hero . It maybe be normal in third world countries to kill you opposers, but in the rest of the world they have elections that are free and open and verifiable.
2006-12-30 22:56:08 · answer #2 · answered by meathead 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Liberals are now trying to turn Saddam into some kind of hero.
It may work with Democrats, but I don't think anyone else will fall for it.
2006-12-31 00:39:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
By your logic Saddam has more in common with Vicente Fox than...Just about any current world leader, (except maybe Iran!)
2006-12-30 23:00:13 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You are even more delusional than I am (and your spelling is atrocious). He was a mass murderer who put live people in vats of acid. If that's your idea of a hero, check yourself into a mental hospital before the voices in your head start telling you to cut yourself.
2006-12-30 23:31:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The people who tried to kill saddam 20 years ago..saddam caught 140 of them and killed them all. Now the people who executed him yesterday were the same people that tried to kill him 20 years ago. it must have been sweet revenge for them...
2006-12-30 23:17:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yeah, right...a handful of people try to assassinate Hussein and he murders hundreds of thousands. That's normal in your world?
2006-12-31 01:06:47 · answer #7 · answered by kathy_is_a_nurse 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He was a Tyrant, and he did kill his own people, but now he is dead because they finally got their revenge. You don't see our presidents killing us for no reason. Wake up you stupid 3rd world asshole.
2006-12-30 22:55:55 · answer #8 · answered by Fruit Cake Lady 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
:)) u r so funny
Good luck :))
2006-12-30 23:04:03 · answer #9 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋