Saddam Hussein

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• 8/2/2020
  

  30 Years Later: Saddam Hussein's Fateful Decision to Invade Kuwait

  by Guy Laron

  It was clear from the outset that this was a desperate gamble that put Iraq on a collision course with Washington. But Saddam believed he had no other choice but to stop Kuwait from dumping oil into a slack market.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  12-23-15
  

  How Saddam Hussein Gave Us ISIS

  by Kyle W. Orton

  The Islamic State was born when the desperate dictator turned to religion to shore up his teetering regime.

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• SOURCE: Journal of Turkish Weekly
  9-8-14
  

  Saddam is popular again in some Sunni corners of the Middle East

  There are a number of reasons for people to yearn for Saddam Hussein. The first reason is his antagonism toward Israel.

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• SOURCE: Salon
  6-18-14
  

  George W. Bush’s horrific, deadly blunder: Would Saddam Hussein be better than Iraq’s new hell?

  by Patrick L. Smith

  Eleven years, and so much death, misery and destruction later, Iraq's best outcome looks like the one Bush upended.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9-5-13
  

  Saddam Hussein's rifle up for sale

  Saddam's M77 Ruger expected to net up to $15,000.

• SOURCE: AP
  3-18-13
  

  Saddam’s specter lives on in Iraqi landmarks

  BAGHDAD — The soaring half domes of the Martyr Monument stand out against the drabness of eastern Baghdad, not far from where Saddam Hussein’s feared eldest son was said to torture underperforming athletes.Saddam built the split teardrop-shaped sculpture in the middle of a manmade lake in the early 1980s to commemorate Iraqis killed in the Iran-Iraq War. The names of hundreds of thousands of fallen Iraqi soldiers are inscribed in simple Arabic script around the base.Today the monument stands as a memorial to a different sort of martyr. In recent years, the Shiite-led government has begun turning it into a museum honoring the overwhelmingly Shiite and Kurdish victims of Saddam’s Sunni-dominated regime....

• SOURCE: AP
  3-18-13
  

  Saddam’s specter lives on in Iraqi landmarks

  BAGHDAD — The soaring half domes of the Martyr Monument stand out against the drabness of eastern Baghdad, not far from where Saddam Hussein’s feared eldest son was said to torture underperforming athletes.Saddam built the split teardrop-shaped sculpture in the middle of a manmade lake in the early 1980s to commemorate Iraqis killed in the Iran-Iraq War. The names of hundreds of thousands of fallen Iraqi soldiers are inscribed in simple Arabic script around the base.Today the monument stands as a memorial to a different sort of martyr. In recent years, the Shiite-led government has begun turning it into a museum honoring the overwhelmingly Shiite and Kurdish victims of Saddam’s Sunni-dominated regime....