The Life Of Saddam Hussein

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The regime of Saddam Hussein began looking like a very promising presidency for the Iraqi people. His goal of absolute domination in the Arab region, turned him into a feared menace among his people. Saddam Hussein was born on April 28, 1937 in Tikrit, Iraq. Hussein’s father, whose occupation was a shepherd, vanished without a trace several months before Saddam was born and he never returned home to Saddam, his brother or his wife. A few months later and after the disappearance of Hussein’s father, his older brother died a terrible death caused by cancer. Saddam’s mother was unable to care for him due to the stress induced anxiety and depression caused by the death of her eldest son, and her missing husband. She was unable to care for Saddam, and at the age three he was sent to Baghdad to live with his uncle, Khairallah Talfah. Saddam would return to Al-Awja years later to live with his mother, but after suffering physical abuse from his stepfather, he fled to Baghdad once again. This influence from Saddam’s childhood made his policies very contradictory in more ways than one, his policies on oil, his abuse of power, and how he treated the people of Iraq could label him as a tyrant. He changed the way the world works today with his use of chemical weapons and abuse of oil.
In 1963, the Iraqi government was overthrown in the Ramadan Revolution. Saddam returned from Syria to Iraq after being exiled for a failed assassination attempt on the prime minister. Yet, he was arrested the following year as the result of being in the Ba'ath Party. While in prison Saddam remained involved in politics. In 1966 he was appointed deputy secretary of the Regional Command. Against all odds, he managed to escape prison and throughout the years a...

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...inated from Iraq and the region. After his timely death, the region was able to run smoothly, so to speak. Iraq has had it’s ups and downs when it came to the Hussein regime. On the positive side, Saddam did boost oil revenue and production early in his presidency. Yet, throughout his presidency it was a downward spiral that created his rule as a tyrant and abusive leader who killed thousands of people and injured countless more. What Saddam Hussein did to the Iraqi Kurds can never be fixed, but they can now live with a peace of mind and not have to worry about chemical attacks anymore. Saddam Hussein is and was a tyrant no matter how you look at it. Even if there was a good thing a shadow of bad things followed. He had the people of Iraq fooled at the beginning, but they soon saw the true side of Saddam Hussein… evil, cruel, and an abusive leader to his country.

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