Almost everything Saddam Hussein did for the world wasn't good, when the Gulf War ended in 1991, the United Nations resolved that the economic embargo on Iraq would be lifted if Iraq destroyed its chemical, biological and nuclear weapons programs within six months. Iraq refused to do so. So it made oil soar high in price. He made oil and gas prices soar throughout the whole world and made everyone suffer from high gas prices and us Americans and Canadians were and are now seeing it at the pumps.
In March 1988 He gassed his on people from the Kurdish town, five thousand people were killed and ten thousand were injured. If he would gas his own people what would stop him from gassing or injuring other people. .
In August 1988 he gassed many Kurdish villages on the Turkish border. Thousands of people died. .
Saddam needed more money for his military regime and he planned to use Kuwait's rich oil resources to provide for his military purposes. So he invaded Kuwait. This started the Persian Gulf War. Many countries and the UN disagreed with this invasion, so The UN placed a embargo on their trading of oil, which effected Their economy and made oil and gas prices raise everywhere through out the world .The United Nations Security Council said if Iraq did not remove their troops from Kuwait, occupation they approved the use of military force on Iraq by January 15, 1991. Saddam refused to remove his troops so the allies bombed military targets in Iraq and Kuwait on January 16, 1991. Iraq, as retaliation, launched missiles against Saudi Arabia and Israel. .
In 1995 Iraq admitted to having possession of brewing thousands of gallons of deadly germs and toxins and loading some of them in bombs, missile and rockets. The weapons included anthrax, botulinum toxin, Clostridium perfringens, a flesh-eating bacterium that causes gas gangrene; and aflatoxin, a fungal poison that causes liver cancer.
In October,1998, Saddam failed to let the United Nations weapons inspectors in to inspect.
Saddam Hussein was born on April 28, 1937 in the Tikrit District of Iraq. ... In 1963, Saddam married his cousin, Sajida. ... Saddam had two son-in-laws, Hussein Kamel Majid and his brother Saddam Kamel. ... The people Saddam used nerve gas on and killed were the Kurds. Saddam Hussein has used drastic measures to insure his safety. ...
Iraq under Saddam Hussein (1979-Present) Saddam Hussein was born on April 28, 1937 in the village of al-Auja, on the outskirts of Tikrit in northern Iraq. ... In July of 1979, Saddam being the second in command, announced that the present leader General Ahmad Hassan al-Bakr had stepped down because of poor health and that he had been chosen by the Baath party as Iraq's new President, commander in chief, and head of the government as well as the party. ... Saddam recorded the whole proceedings and circulated the tape as a warning to anyone who might think to go behind Saddam'...
Saddam Hussein was born on April 28, 1937 in Tikrit, Iraq and born into a poor family. ... Saddam's stepfather, Ibrahim Hassan, was cruel to him. ... Saddam study law in Cairo during 1962-1963. ... Saddam was elected the Vice-chairman of the Revolution Command Council in 1969. ... Two years later Saddam seized Kuwait. ...
Saddam Hussein, the president of Iraq. ... Is Saddam Hussein really a tyrant? ... During the attack, Saddam was shot in the leg but General Qassim sentenced Saddam Hussein to death on February 25, 1960, which kept Saddam from coming back to Iraq. ... When finally Hussein came to power, he called a major Baathist meeting on July 22, 1979. ... The war tainted the image of Iraq and the image of Saddam Hussein. ...
Today on Democracy Now, on 90.7 KPFK, host Amy Goodman had special guest Mohammed Aldouri, who is the United Nations Ambassador to Iraq. They discussed the recent issues reguarding President Bush and his wanting to invade Iraq, due to them refusing U.S. weapons inspectors to search Iraq. Mohammed A...
Saddam Hussein 1. Saddam Hussein, an Iraqi political leader, was born to a poor Arab family on April 28, 1937. ... Saddam finally gained control of the Iraq presidency in 1979. ... The Washington Post learned that an anti-Saddam operation by the CIA has cost $100 million dollars without reaching its goal of helping Iraqi resisters overthrow Saddam. ...
Saddam forced POW's to criticize the war against peaceful Iraq The war ended on Feb 28, at 5am but the battle with Saddam was far from over. ... Saddam Hussein has caused many more problems preceding the war up until the present. ... The main solution to this threat is to remove Saddam Hussein from power. ... Arlen Spector, a Pennsylvania Republican suggests that we brand Saddam a war criminal. ... But like the Black Knight I mentioned earlier, Saddam keeps on fighting. ...
This is familiar when you think of Sadam Husein "fighting for his land and people- but when he is overthrown we see that the majority of his people were only following him because they feared him, and they have hated him with a passion for what he has put them through. ...
Saddam Hussein is very aware of the history of his country. ... Saddam considers Nebuchadnezzar a great man. ... Qasim survived and Saddam escaped to Egypt where he was a guest of Nasser. ... Saddam was invited to return to Iraq, but the al-Bakr government did not last and Saddam was briefly jailed. ... In June, 1979, Saddam Hussein ousted Gen. al-Bakr. ...
