Saddam: from toddler to tyrant

[Guest Jobber of the Week]

"David Blair charts the career of Saddam Hussein, from back-street assassin to Iraq's vicious dictator".

 

This is an interesting look into Saddam's past, from his violent upbringing to his career as a hired assassin to his eventual rise to become the delusional leader of a nation whose population he's horrifically mislead and mistreated.

 

Of course, there are no excuses for the man Saddam is, but it's interesting to see the forces that shaped this batshit insane asshole.

 

Funny, they didn't mention how the CIA helped the coup in 68 that brought the Ba'ath party to rule. [/lefty-amerikkka-hijack]

 

However:

 

In 1975, he visited France and Jacques Chirac, then prime minister, took him on a tour of Provence. M Chirac went on to sell Saddam a nuclear reactor for £2 billion and signed a Nuclear Co-operation Treaty.

 

This agreement bound Paris to help Saddam's nuclear programme and also excluded "all persons of Jewish origin" from participating, whether in France or Iraq.

 

M Chirac insisted that the nuclear reactor and technical help were for civilian purposes. Saddam was more honest. "The agreement with France is the first concrete step toward production of the Arab atomic bomb," he said.

 

HOLY SHIT

[Guest Kotzenjunge]

Uh oh. This can't be good.

[Guest JMA]

The path to evil is, indeed, a journey.

[Rob E Dangerously 0]

Saddam has at least three doubles, who occasionally meet foreign dignitaries. Jorg Haider, the far-Right Austrian politician, was criticised for meeting Saddam last year. In fact, Saddam did not trouble to entertain him and, according to a BBC documentary, left the task to a double.

 

Ha!

[Guest Powerplay]

Saddam has at least three doubles, who occasionally meet foreign dignitaries. Jorg Haider, the far-Right Austrian politician, was criticised for meeting Saddam last year. In fact, Saddam did not trouble to entertain him and, according to a BBC documentary, left the task to a double.

 

Ha!

 

I think the funnier use of his doubles was when he went boating with around 12 of them on the Daily Show. I just cracked up.

[Guest JangoFett4Hire]

Israel destroyed a nuclear reactor in the early 80's I thought...

[Guest Vern Gagne]

Israel destroyed a nuclear reactor in the early 80's I thought...

They did and the Israeli who was killed in the Columbia crash in Feb. was one of the piolets involved in the bombing.

[Guest JMA]

Saddam likes the Godfather trilogy, eh? His rise to power is similar to that of a mob boss.