Iraqi leader who waged war against Iran and who invaded Kuwait (born in 1937)

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They turned the cities into abattoirs, going so far as to slaughter hundreds (perhaps thousands) of people within the sacred tombs of the martyrs 'Ali, Hussein, and Adnan, punching holes in the mosques themselves with tank fire.

He had risen rapidly, despite the self-appointment of Saddam Hussein as President and the regular placement of Ba'ath Party apparatchiks in posts they were patently unqualified to fill.

This was the cold that Bulgarians were gearing up for, as they faced the economic aftershocks of the Gulf crisis—which had begun the previous August when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait—and the collapse of Communism.

The position was that the President, the NSC, and State were all clamoring for deep-mined hypersecret intelligence from inside the heart of Baghdad, from the innermost councils of Saddam Hussein himself.

Containment is eroding, and it is no longer realistic to believe that it can be revived in a meaningful sense and sustained over time to prevent Saddam Hussein from acquiring nuclear weapons.

Saddam Hussein will not pull out of Kuwait unless he is given an out, a face-saver, which we will ensure he does not get.

The business plan he and Sa'id had created for their joint venture hadn't envi sioned—much less factored in—Saddam Hussein and his regime being gone, the Americans and Brits being in control of Baghdad, and millions of barrels of Iraqi oil flooding the market within the next few months.

After the final payment of 100 million Swiss francs had been wired to the Kiev bank, Leonid Dotensk told Hussein Kamil that he had another urgent matter to discuss.

He'd also have Deputy Secretary of State Dick Cavanaugh begin a round of off-the-record meetings with Arab foreign ministers to sketch out the administration's thinking of the post-Saddam Hussein, post-Arafat world.

The Kurds and Iranians would be surprised to hear that inasmuch as Saddam Hussein had already used his weapons of mass destruction on them.

Hussein and one of his mamluks cried out in shock and rushed to support him.

As the moving force behind Iraq's WMD programs since the end of the Iran-Iraq War and a member of Qusayy's concealment committee, Hussein Kamel also knew all about Saddam's shell game with the U.

Saddam Hussein and his regime are the polar opposite of every single one of the traits considered desirable, if not essential, for nuclear deterrence.

Even if he weren't, it would be a nuisance but would hardly constitute a defeat for this course of action: even if we spend twenty years searching for Saddam Hussein around the world, if he were not in power in Iraq he could not threaten the Middle East with nuclear war.

But if we are reluctant to bear these costs, we should also consider the potential costs of not invading--the costs we will have to pay if, as seems likely, we had to fight Iraq at some point after Saddam Hussein has acquired nuclear weapons.