Saddam Hussein: The Fight To Accumulate Power

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“Those that live by the sword die by the sword.”This quote expresses that those that always try to fight,will die because of their combative character. Power, good or bad, can influence a person’s actions. In many situations, power causes a person to lose their moral values and look at situations from a more strategic perspective. They think on how their decisions will get them to gain more power. Saddam Hussein was a very strategic and dynamic man.Hussein became president of Iraq in 1979.He was a dictator, molder, and shaper of Iraq. He killed many people just because he believed they were threatening his leadership position. Although Saddam Hussein grew up as a Sunni Muslim and followed all religious practices,he aspired to become a powerful leader which later on lead him to be the violent person his legacy left.
Saddam Hussein was raised in an unstable family and lived in poverty which later led him to have a very combative personality. He never knew his biological dad and his step-father abused him on a regular basis. This negativity was a big impact on how he developed as a person later in life. According to research, “At ten years of age, he left his mother’s home to live with an uncle by the name of Khairallah Talfah; this man later played a vital role in Hussein’s political life”(“Great Lives In History”). This was the start of Hussein’s hostile ways.According to Salem Press,“As Hussein grew older, he worked more with his uncle and was recruited into the Ba'ath socialist party. At age 22, he joined a team of assassins to kill the country’s military dictator, General Abdul Karim Qassim”(“Great Lives In History”). Although the attempt failed, he managed to escape and stay off the grid until the general was successfully ass...

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...o matter how big or small, because what they do with that power can make or break the rest of their life.

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