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for 23 years the sadistic tyrant Saddam
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Hussein rules Iraq with an utter
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contempt for Humanity
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we're dealing with Hitler revisited a
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totalitarianism and a brutality that is
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naked and unprecedented his cruelty
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knows no limits what is right and wrong
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to you and I isn't even a conscious
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thought of Saddam Hussein's
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this is the story of how maniacal
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ambition turns a vicious street thug
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into the Middle East's most aggressively
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violent dictator he knew they were gonna
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be executed he sat back smiled smoked
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his cigar he was thrilled and how his
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murderous quest to dominate the Arab
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world comes to a humiliating end when
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he's found cowering in a hole
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by August the 2nd 1990 Saddam Hussein's
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uniquely sadistic regime has terrified
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Iraq for over a decade but his
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megalomania reaches dazzling new heights
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when he sends his 1 million man strong
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army to invade his tiny Arab neighbor
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Kuwait Saddam's invasion of Kuwait was
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perhaps his most colossal miscalculation
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he didn't think that the United States
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was going to react militarily in the
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past the West has let him get away with
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far worse but this decision marks the
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beginning of the end to a lifetime of
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cruelty and viciousness it started a
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little more than a half-century earlier
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the story begins in the village of a
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Luger five miles outside the Iraqi town
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of Tikrit
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no electricity no paved roads mud brick
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houses it's here according to his mother
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that the future dictatorial president of
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Iraq Saddam Hussein starts killing
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people before he's even born
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just months before his birth Saddam's
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father and elder brother died
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Saddam's mother said she was carrying
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Satan in her belly and that he killed
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all the other men in the family his
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father and his older brother in order to
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be the only man in the family
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Saddam's mother wanted to actually kill
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the fetus Saddam before he was reborn
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despite her wishes he's born on April 28
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1937 and he's given a most fitting name
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saddam means is the one who confronts
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the name she gave him was so perfect for
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him because he was a guy who would
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confront people left right and center
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rejected by his mother saddam is sent to
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live with his uncle Khairallah Telfer
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this left a very very deep imprint on
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his personality that you could never
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count on anybody except for on himself
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his uncle is a Nazi sympathizer who
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later sets out his own political
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philosophies in a pamphlet called three
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whom God should not have created
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Persians Jews and flies Huayra little
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father was an anti-semite to the bone
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it's very reminiscent of girls of the
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Nazi propaganda so I would say if you
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combine his prenatal history with his
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dramatic with his early childhood
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history which is unhappy I can see how a
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man like that grows up
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meanwhile his oil-rich country long
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dominated by the British Empire is
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dealing with its own turmoil and in 1958
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General Abdul Karim casas leads a
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military coup to dethrone Iraq's puppet
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monarchy and drive out the British
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quickly Qasim's regime is plagued by
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power struggles and dissent having
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joined the bath party a radical secular
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nationalist movement a year earlier
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Saddam eagerly supports its goals of
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taking over the country enjoying the
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bath party because it was the most
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activist political party in Iraq of the
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1950s their plans include assassinating
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general Qasim and as a young street thug
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named Saddam Hussein they think is just
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the man for the job
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despite being a very junior bath party
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member
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the 22 year olds reputation for enjoying
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violence gets him a place in the hit
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squad they knew that he knows what to do
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with the gun
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Sadam arranged two squads on both sides
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of the road like this and an Assam
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within the Jeep was driving here like
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this of course if you shoot from both
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side you have a better chance of hitting
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the Jeep then if you shoot from only one
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side
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the two squads started shooting at each
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other they were all sure that Qasim was
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killed
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in the mayhem Saddam is shot by one of
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his fellow assassins but manages to flee
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the scene they went to the place where
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the getaway car was supposed to be
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waiting for them and they found out the
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driver of the getaway car is not in the
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getaway car he's sitting in a coffee
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shop nearby playing backgammon it was a
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real farce a parody of an assassination
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attempt general Qasim survives it looks
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like Saddam's career in the bath party
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has ended in failure before it's even
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begun a wanted man he goes on the run
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four years later where he spectacularly
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failed other Baathists succeed in 1963
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general Qasim is deposed and executed
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Saddam returns home from exile it Ching
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for political office but he's seen as a
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thug and no one thinks of him as a
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leader so he's only offered a junior
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role working with Iraqi peasants Saddam
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was very ambitious but he knew one thing
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that the party was very hierarchical it
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was a very young man and everybody else
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was older and with much greater veteran
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shape of party members so I think
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understood it
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then in July 1968 his luck changes his
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distant relative encinia Baath Party
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member General Ahmed Hassan al-bakr
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seizes power in a coup
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Saddam looked up to al-bakr and al-bakr
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looked at Saddam very favorably almost
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like a son
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our baka needs to appoint a head of
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security services to protect his new
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regime from counter coos his colleagues
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older much much better educated longer
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membership period they felt it was below
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them to pull out teeth and to pull out
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fingernails young Saddam on the other
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hand has a quality that makes him only
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too happy to take on the role sadism was
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one of the chief features of his
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personality sanam is same was probably
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more sadistic than Hitler and that does
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mean to take great pleasure in the pain
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or suffering of others an amusement in
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the pain and suffering of others our
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Baca has no idea that he's just given a
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sick and twisted man a free pass to
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create a complete terror apparatus an
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organization that ultimately proves
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vital to Saddam seizing total power
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he recruited all the people from his own
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tribe young men who were very tough not
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very much educated but tough knew how to
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use weapons trained them and they became
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his like his puppies they were eating
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from his hand and they called him on
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that trigger our grand uncle and they
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knew that all the good things they get
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and they got a lot of good things money
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cars homes you name it they got it and
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they were village boys so for them it
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was like a quantum leap of incredible
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proportions
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Saddam's role in the security services
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establishes his reputation for absolute
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ruthlessness
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unlike other would-be dictators Saddam
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personally enjoys inflicting pain his
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torture chamber becomes infamous the
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name of the place was the palace of doom
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here he regularly takes part in torture
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and has great delight in coming up with
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a range of cruel and unusual techniques
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over the next decade he revels in
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perfecting 107 different methods there's
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a long list of torches that they were
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practicing like the falaqa lashes on the
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palms of your hands and and feet all
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kinds of electrocution what they call
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the parakeet hanging people from a fence
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on the ceilings and beating them the
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submarine dropping the head of the
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person into a bucket full of water acid
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but they really enjoyed burning
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cigarettes into prisoners eyes
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he does his job so well general al-bakr
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makes Saddam his vice president
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he was a shooting star all of a sudden
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almost out of knowing by 1968 Saddam
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Hussein unwanted by his mother
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unsuccessful assassin and unstoppable
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sadist is just a heartbeat away from
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ruling Iraq so one of the very first
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things mr. deputy as he likes to be
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called does is turn his sadistic mind
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towards a vulnerable part of the
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population
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Iraq's ancient Jewish community Jews
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were deeply hated by so many people in
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Iraq deeply hated it was just over two
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years after the six-day war
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in the Six Day War Iraq like Egypt like
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Syria like job who was beaten very badly
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by Israel
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so the hate for the Jews was absolutely
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palpable everywhere now Saddam puts into
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practice the anti-semitism his uncle
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could only write about he has 14 men and
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boys arrested and put on trial for
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spying for Israel there was hardly a
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trial it was a short trial the whole
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thing was one big joke there were no
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proof there was nothing among the
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accused is Samira Ilyas his 17 year old
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brother ESCO he was an ambitious
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charming boy
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yeah everybody loved him he was in love
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with life in early 1969 the falsely
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accused are hanged shown on TV but we
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couldn't watch it was too horrible to
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watch
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it just kept crying what else could be
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doing it was a black day it was a
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horrible day beyond description life was
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over by the time Saddam is overthrown
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some three decades later there will only
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be 34 Jews left in Iraq but what the
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cheering crowds fail to realize that day
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is that Saddam is sending a message to
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all Iraqis
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Saddam was very clever very clever he
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decided that it was beneficial to
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England to scare everyone every
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intelligent Iraqi Jewish Muslim
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Christian understood that this is a new
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hero they felt all of a sudden that they
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were becoming very vulnerable
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the Iraqi vice-president doesn't plan to
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get to the top by cruelty alone to
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achieve his ultimate ambition to become
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a great leader
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he's worked out he'll need Iraq to
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become great too with a full backing of
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president al Baca Saddam Hussein begins
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leading the country's complete social
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and economic revolution in 1972 he
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nationalizes the oil industry giving him
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fistfuls of cash to transform Iraq
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infrastructure this was a period of
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massive development
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this was a period of massive investment
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by the state development all over the
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country he is also carrying out a
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massive campaign to eradicate illiteracy
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and it earns Iraq an international price
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which was given by UNESCO
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if you don't challenge the system it's a
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wonderful time to be in Iraqi and Saddam
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makes sure everyone knows it's all down
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to him
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there is a similarity a striking
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similarity between the Iraq and Germany
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once Hitler took over in 1933 if you
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remember Adolf Hitler became quite
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popular in the mid and late nineteen
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thirties in Germany
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Sadam became popular too with his
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security service quietly weeding out
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opponents and as the public face of
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popular reform over the next 10 years
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Saddam's power base grows and grows by
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the mid-seventies is by far the most
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important figure in Iraq even if
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formerly his only device president
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Saddam's method was very clever Saddam
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was doing all these things in the
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background under the cover of running
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al-bakr x' government which actually
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helped Saddam consolidate his own power
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Sadam knew how to buy this time his
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patience is one of the most important
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characteristics confident he's done
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enough to prove his credentials as a
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leader Saddam sets in motion the next
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phase in his bid for ultimate power
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little by little he starts undermining
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his mentor and boss President Al Baca
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Saddam started bad-mouthing Bakr
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he's saying to everybody he's old he's
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senile his father his sleeping meet
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beings he's no good wait until I come on
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and you'll see what kind of glory
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Iraq is going to be finally in July 1979
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he decides the time is right to achieve
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his destiny 17th of July revolution Day
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in Iraq on that day traditionally the
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president of Iraq Ahmed Hassan al-bakr
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was supposed to give a speech but hours
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earlier on the eve of the annual
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celebrations Saddam makes the president
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an offer he can't refuse
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resign or else
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Sadam accompanies al-bakr to make his
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televised resignation speech
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the general will spend the rest of his
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life under house arrest
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at only 42 years old Saddam Hussein is
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now president of Iraq
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he has a problem that not everybody
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accepts his declaration and him as a
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president
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so the Saddam calculated minds start
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thinking about the next step six days
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later the new president calls a special
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meeting of senior Baath Party members
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which he recalls this is the actual
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footage of what is one of the most
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notorious events of Saddam's reign you
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are invited to the Congress without
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knowing what is on the agenda start with
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Saddam announcing that something very
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sad and tragic happened
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he claims he's uncovered a conspiracy
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against him
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he then introduces senior Baath Party
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member mookie abdullah hussein Mashhadi
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the man saddam claims as the plots
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ringleader you can actually see how
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frightened he is when he starts telling
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the story of the conspiracy danny was
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simply promised his life in exchange for
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mentioning the names Mashhadi starts
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naming names his fellow conspirators he
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says are in this very room members of
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the security services now under Saddam
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Hussein's step-brother Vajrasana
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secretly take them out ten men are
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removed
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nobody knows if I'm going to be next or
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not then another ten and you see the
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faces of these people they are as white
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as snow then another time that fear that
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he evoked from these people
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he enjoyed Saddam is smoking one of
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those Cuban cigars that was given to him
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by his friend that Fidel Castro he's
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very calm very cool then ten more
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he sat back smiled smoked his cigar and
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he was thrilled he was enjoying the
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power and he knew that now he was going
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to have unrivaled power those left that
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had one choice and that is to be
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loyalist extreme loyalist and and to
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pledge their fealty to Saddam Hussein
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you have this ecstasy of the whole on
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exploding in long live Saddam no leave
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the bar in total 66 alleged traitors are
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removed a third are executed by firing
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spirit including Machado the purge of
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1979 is a watershed is a water from now
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on everybody is on notice you don't
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antagonize Saddam and there any
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circumstances don't even try
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that's 1979 that's when Iraq is becoming
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a real dictator
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in just a couple of hours Saddam Hussein
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eliminates any traces of political
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opposition he has achieved total power
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but he has almost no time to bask in his
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own glory
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volcanic events abroad quickly pose a
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serious challenge to the fledgling
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dictator
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just months earlier the shower of
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neighboring Iran is overthrown by the
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Islamic Revolution led by Ayatollah
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Khomeini for Saddam aside from a
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personal hatred of Hawaii the new
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revolutionary Iran and its Islamic
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agenda is a threat to his regime most
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Iranians belong to the Shiite Muslim
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sect so do the majority of Iraqis Saddam
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and most of his government are Sunni
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Muslims Khomeini
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is calling for Iraq's Shiites to rise up
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against them it's a volatile situation
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that Saddam needs to control so another
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question is what to do we have to
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humiliate Khomeini and he says humiliate
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I want to stick his nose in the money
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once I do that they rakish Shiites who
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love him so much we see that he is a
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paper tiger Saddam has another agenda to
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increase his power beyond Iraq's borders
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and become the preeminent force in
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Middle Eastern politics if he can defeat
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the historic enemy of the Arabs the
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Iranians he believes he will prove
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himself not only the strongman of Iraq
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but of the entire Arab world
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he believes wholeheartedly that they
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will win the war within two to three
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weeks and the Khomeini will cry mother
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that this will be such a tremendous
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victory for Iraq that Iraq will become
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the leader of the Arab world
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without warning on September the 22nd
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1980 Saddam sends his troops over the
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Iranian border
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he believes the fighting will be over in
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days
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Iran was in the middle of evolution and
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the result of zeal in Iran in Iran has
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three times as large a population and
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three times as large apparently even not
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in hindsight he's a huge miscalculation
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two years later an estimated 100,000
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Iraqi soldiers are dead and thousands
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more are injured or languishing in
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Iranian POWs camps were still Iran is
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starting to take a rocky territory with
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the help of a shocking new tactic mass
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suicide attacks
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call the beseech these hundreds of
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thousands of young volunteers go to the
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front intent on martyrdom Khomeini had
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those young volunteers 12 13 14 15 16
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years old who were running on the
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minefields to explode them and most of
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the Basij didn't even have a rifle crazy
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tactics totally men actually made Saddam
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look good
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all of a sudden you know these crazy
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guys who are dying to die
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this made Saddam looked really good for
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the West the secular Saddam seems
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infinitely preferable to Iran's
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fanatical Islamic Revolution at that
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time of course the United States after
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the hostage crisis we had tremendous
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animosity toward Iran and suddenly
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Saddam is a friend of the United States
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enemy of your enemy is your friend
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yet despite Western support he can't
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seem to win it was essentially trench
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warfare these guys had a front line of
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troops and it would move forward a
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little bit and move backwards a little
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bit it was very World War one
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Sadam seeks a weapon to break the
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deadlock the kind of weapon only a
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sadist would ever use in top-secret
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Saddam has been building a chemical
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weapons arsenal that includes a nerve
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agent developed by the Nazis
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table
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former US Army dr. mark Greene who would
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later meet Saddam face-to-face knows
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just how deadly this chemical weapon is
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it's a sinister in that it's tasteless
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odorless colorless you don't know when
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the bomb goes off that there's a
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chemical that's been aerosolized
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it kills very quickly and if it's a high
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concentration you pretty much are
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unconscious immediately even Hitler
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refused to use table on the battlefield
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Saddam has no such qualms Saddam Hussein
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was the kind of guy who failure was not
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an option
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and he didn't care about it's horrific
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effects on humanity that was not even a
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part of the equation in 1983 he
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unleashes his chemical weapons on
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Iranian soldiers the West turns a blind
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eye he calculates correctly they just
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won't care about dead Iranians
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with no check our balance on his
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activity on his actions with no-one who
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can actually challenge Saddam his heart
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just gets darker and darker and darker
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and what is right and wrong to you and I
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just isn't even a conscious thought of
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Saddam Hussein's having got away with
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using WMDs in the war against Iran he
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decides to use them again but this time
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his plan is to turn his chemical weapons
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on his own people for years in northern
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Iraq he's had problems with the Kurdish
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minority the Kurds are different people
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they are not Arabs they are off a
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different ethnicity they speak a
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different language they have a different
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history they have never been completely
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integrated into the makeup of Iraqi
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society the Kurds want an independent
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homeland anoraks mudventure against Iran
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gives them their chance or so they
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thought it turns out Saddam isn't about
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to roll over without a fight this was a
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very brutal means to actually humiliate
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the Kurds he's not gonna care at all
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about how these people might feel how
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they might suffer in fact if he imagined
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it he'd be amused one spring morning in
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1988 a mysterious cloud spreads across
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the Kurdish city of Halabja they smelled
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the smell of sweet apples they didn't
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really know what they were breathing and
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they were breathing poison the civilians
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in Halabja had no chance
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for some death is instant others suffer
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in excruciating agony the scenes of
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Halabja remind one of the scenes of
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pompeii because people were living their
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own daily life and they were strangled
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to death by by breathing this poison
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5,000 civilians are dead
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nearly 10,000 more are maimed disfigured
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and disabled
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no other head of state has used chemical
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weapons against his own people like this
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before Saddam Hussein
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the horror is going to spread throughout
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that country and people are gonna see it
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and be aware of it and be threatened by
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it and be subdued so very clearly Saddam
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was making this statement and he made it
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very very loudly when the world
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expresses concerns Saddam just lies
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sometimes they say that the Iranians did
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that sometimes they say they were
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actually targeting Iranian forces and
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not the town of Halabja ultimately the
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West once again turns a blind eye
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because in July 1988 Iran accepts a
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ceasefire
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Saddam has fought Ayatollah Khomeini the
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West's enemy to a standstill
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the war ended in this stalemate eight
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years of death and pain and nothing
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accomplished estimates as high as over a
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million people died in that war for
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nothing for nothing
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the cost of this war is every bit as
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horrific for the Iraqis as for the
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Iranians Iraq was devastated no potable
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water electricity roads were destroyed
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there was no food it was nothing but
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Saddam in classic dictator style
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declares himself the winner he didn't
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believe anything he wants because he's
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so egotistical he's so narcissistic but
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this phony victory comes at a terrible
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price his nation is in ruins half a
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million of his people are dead and he
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hasn't gained an inch of territory he
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responds like only a rampaging
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megalomaniac can with his very own Arc
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de Triomphe in the center of Baghdad the
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hands of victory complete with military
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helmets of dead Iranian soldiers the
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arms in the hands of Victory Monument
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are supposedly sculpted after Saddam's
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own and are part of his self
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aggrandizing character where he thinks
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that he is the strength of Iraq the arm
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seemed to signify that he defeated Iran
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on the battlefield he declares himself
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the new Nebuchadnezzar and rebuilds his
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great ancient city of Babylon every
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tenth brick said Babylon was rebuilt in
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the days of President Saddam every tense
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drink
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he puts his name everywhere everything
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was named Saddam International Airport
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Saddam this and on that and so is his
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face
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[Music]
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every birthday he gives the Iraqi people
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a special present another statue of
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himself
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people used to say in those days that we
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have 32 million Iraqis 16 million Iraqis
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are leaving Europe and 16 million Iraqis
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are Saddam Hussein's posters the
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constant use of Saddam's imagery and
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daily life let's the Iraqi people know
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that there's no alternative to Saddam
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[Music]
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for all the statues and murals Saddam
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can't escape the fact he has driven his
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nation to financial ruin Saddam had gone
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into enormous debt with various Gulf
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states to fund the war with Iran and by
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the end Saddam was greatly indebted to
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Saudi Arabia to Kuwait he owes them an
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estimated forty billion dollars a tab he
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has no intention of pain he pointed to
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the palm of his head said the cradle of
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human civilization is the Tigris and
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Euphrates River everyone on the planet
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is an Iraqi and I'm the president of
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Iraq
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and he was essentially saying that he
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was the king of the world and he could
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do whatever he wanted the self-styled
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king of the world turns his sights on
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his very rich and practically
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defenseless neighbor Kuwait the Kuwaiti
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czar refusing to write off his ten
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billion dollar loan Saddam also suspects
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they are deliberately over producing oil
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to deflate the market harming his income
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he was angry don't get Saddam angry with
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the largest army in the Middle East at
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his disposal the answer seems obvious
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[Music]
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in August 1990 he sends more than
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100,000 troops into Kuwait
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Saddam's invasion of Kuwait was perhaps
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his most colossal miscalculation his era
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is that this time his enemy has friends
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this will not stand this will not stand
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this aggression against Kuwait
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you have people who are essentially
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sworn enemies coming together to say no
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this is not going to be tolerated even
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Syria and Egypt the United States and
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Russia unite to oppose the invasion even
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the coalition against Nazi Germany and
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Imperial Japan wasn't as large as the
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coalition against Saddam Hussein Saddam
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Hussein had a gift he could ignore if it
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served his purpose clear signs of an
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approaching storm and he felt that the
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Americans they cannot fight me because
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they don't want to lose people America
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cannot close people and I in one battle
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he is saying - April must be ambassador
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that I in one battle against the
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Iranians are lost 10,000 Iraqis in one
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battle they turn around for another
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battle can you do that
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On January the 16th 1991 Operation
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Desert Storm begins
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[Music]
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[Music]
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he says that I'm not really warned
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because when they start moving forward
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they'll suffer such great casualties
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that they will have to stop in their
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tracks and then machining create
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u.s. general Norman Schwarzkopf rolls
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over Saddam's million strong army in
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just 100 hours Kuwait is liberated the
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Iraqis are driven out and with those
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mission objectives achieved the
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coalition forces agree to leave the
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Iraqi president in power sensing a
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glimmer of weakness in his despotic
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regime for the first time large numbers
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of Iraqis rise up against Saddam Kurds
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Shiites
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Marche Arab tribes Saddam crushes all
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with customary savagery 1991 he killed
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at least 60,000 she young men at least
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it was a matter of killing everybody
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whom he suspected of being part of the
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revolt against and the numbers were very
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large in a sickening act of
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psychological warfare Saddam has white
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flour dropped on the Kurds with memories
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of the gassing of Halabja fresh in their
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minds in just two months two million
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Kurds flee to refugee camps after 1991
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he didn't need to do so much any longer
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because people got the message
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leaving Saddam's propaganda machine to
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go into overdrive
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he says the Americans didn't dare attack
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me into Iraq only in Kuwait why because
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we were so afraid of us
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so he actually declares victory on the
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Americans
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in 1991 later on he says ok let's call
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it a special name the omen re the mother
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of all battles because nowhere in human
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history was such a battle ever warm in
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commemoration he creates something truly
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weird he's building this magnificent
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mosque called the most of the mother of
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all battles and this mosque has all
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sorts of anti-american symbols on it it
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has four minarets and each one is shaped
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like a scud missile aiming then on the
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top of the roof it says a huge article
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of the laughs lab means no we are
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telling the Americans it was embargo and
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so on
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no he also puts in it a very large copy
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of a Quran written in his own blood now
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is it really his own blood or could he
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possibly add some growth blood or some
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chicken blood oh I don't know I didn't
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check it and maybe he just added some
729
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diluting materials but the whole Quran
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is written in blood that says it's his
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blood
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it did take a few year it was a lot of
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blood it's a whole Quran for heaven's
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sake this is quite impressive when
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Saddam Hussein who remained in power he
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probably at that point realized he's
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invulnerable and that no one could
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overthrown and now all of these
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megalomaniac traits that he had were
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reinforced to an extreme the Iraqi
741
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dictator doesn't get away totally
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scot-free under tough UN sanctions
743
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Saddam can't sell any oil or buy any
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imports unless he can prove to the world
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he's got rid of his WMDs he has no
746
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intention of complying
747
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for the next decade he allows sanctions
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to inflict endless suffering on his
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people rather than open up to UN
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inspectors in one year alone
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UNICEF estimate up to 100,000 Iraqi
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children die for lack of food and proper
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medical supplies then al-qaeda's 9/11
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attacks on America change everything
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Saddam's defiance of UN weapons
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inspectors searching for WMDs causes the
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us to redefine his threat level states
758
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like these and their terrorist allies
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constitute an axis of evil arming to
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threaten the Peace of the world
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in March 2003 Operation Iraqi Freedom
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begins
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just three weeks later us-led coalition
764
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forces occupy Baghdad
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among them is US Army dr. mark Greene he
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witnesses firsthand just how much the
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Iraqi people who were oppressed and
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tormented for the last 23 years hate
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Saddam Hussein I'll never forget going
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into Baghdad and the biggest smiles to
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say they were elated I think would be an
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understatement
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they were kissing what they were kissing
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us they were running out and giving
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kisses to American soldiers it was
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amazing
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but Saddam is nowhere to be found
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he eluded American forces who were in
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Iraq in large numbers and American
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intelligence was also in Iraq and large
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numbers and Saddam one of the most
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famous people on the planet was able to
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hide for a very long time the unit that
784
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I was assigned to had the mission of
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finding Saddam it's the ultimate game of
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hide and seek eventually Greene's unit
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track him down to a farm a few miles
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from where he was born I'm listening to
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it over the satellite radio the guys are
790
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giving off the various checkpoints and
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code words from meaning that this
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building's been checked this building's
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been checked
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and I realize they're sort of repeating
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themselves as if they've gone back over
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the target and they're going over the
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target a second time
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I heard the operator come on the radio
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and say we've got jackpot
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we've got jackpot codeword for Saddam
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and I'm in the back of a helicopter
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jumping up and down giving high-fives to
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my buddy because we just captured Saddam
804
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Hussein it's pretty cool
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we didn't get Hitler we didn't get Pol
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Pot we got Saddam Hussein ladies and
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gentlemen we got him Saddam Hussein may
808
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look like a shell of the man who'd
809
00:46:22,310 --> 00:46:25,370
menaced the world for years but he's as
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defiant as ever he gets flown to this
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sort of intermediate area and they take
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the hood off and he's paraded through a
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cordon of special operators he's
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spitting on them
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yelling I'm the president of Iraq how
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dare you do this to me
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and then US Army dr. mark Greene is
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given a special mission he's put on
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suicide watch in the cell with Sudan and
820
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they start to talk his frizz my guess
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was palpable I have often described it
822
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as sort of a superior air and I'm
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talking to Saddam and I tell myself as
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he's so eloquent and a bit of a superior
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air mark don't become enamored by this
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guy because he'd kill your wife in front
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of you for a false confession nearly
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three years later in 2006 Saddam is
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found guilty of crimes against humanity
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and sentenced to death I am convinced
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that he did not think he was going to
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die whether he thought he was gonna live
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out the rest of his life on a
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Mediterranean island or something I
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don't know but he definitely didn't
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think that we would go through with it
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on the day of execution
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Saddam reportedly refuses his last meal
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he knew that there was no way back so
840
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why not sort of thumb his nose of the
841
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world's to the very end before dawn on
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December the 30th 2006 his executioner's
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come fair
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he knew he was gonna die when he went in
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that room still Saddam refuses the hood
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the hangman started taunt and mock their
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former leader the way that was all
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handled was just very poorly done it was
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very poorly done it was deserved a poor
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leader in a final act of defiance Saddam
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Hussein gives as good as he gets he's
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cut off mid tirade
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Saddam Hussein a murderous street thug
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who ruthlessly obliterated all
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opposition to get to the top sent
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hundreds of thousands to their deaths
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for his own vanity turned weapons of
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mass destruction on his own people and
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inflicted endless suffering leaving Iraq
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and living hell is dead
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you
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