4:05 "she said: this child in my womb wants to be the only man in the family". How could she know the child was a male? Sounds like they made it up to make the story more interesting.
only because he had over a million soldiers at his side crushing any uprising and committing acts of mass genocide against any people that backed the uprising. america could put a million troops in iraq and do the same and keep the "peace" iraq was already an un stable country to begin with.
When saddam was in power the iranians and the Saudis were shiting in their pants he had the whole region in schack he wouldnt let those things happend in his country or in syria if saudi even spole to a iraqi he would destroy them. Im a iraqi shia and im swear to god if he only were good to his country men he would have the whole iraq support him but he was cruel thats why his army surended when USA invaded iraq. And one more thing kuwait is a iraqi town it is not a country it was the british imperialist who it a country in the 1960s.
***** the true is the zionist goverment in america and Israel dont give a fuck about the iraqi people They invade iraq becouse saddam wanted a strong iraq and he wanted the arab people to unite and be a strong force to reconize. In saddams days it was no fredom and the goverment was very cruel to iraqi people but what happends after the regims fall is Worse i think. And saddam had very corupt people in his goverment and his son uday was a mad man. If saddam gave the iraqi more freedom and not so much violence i promise you the army would never surended when the americans and their allies came. Iraq need a strong leader and someone who give freedom to all the people i promise you that you would se a strong country like it was in the 70s and 80s before the american war and sanctions.
+T18k24s Hes an ignorant arab-of course he thinks this is fake. Hes considered a gifted and talented Arab as he is literate, a skill half his people lack...
+Omeed Al-Omary أوميد العمري I dont mean to be a prick.... I just cant stand it when people pretend Saddam was a good guy simply cause they hate Bush. Its ridiculous.
Being a iraq war vet, and serving with the 75th Ranger Regiment for four years I can tell people this is not exaggerated mabey toned town. What happened to these people was horrendous and sickening! Thinking of places like Fallujah the saying " those who have seen war will always see it, in the silence of the night they will always hear the screams" comes to mind. Good content keep it coming.
Thanks, but no thanks, for your “service” we all know you don’t even have a CIB. We also don’t care for your piss-poor analysis of Amo Saddam Hussein al Majid Al Tikrit!
After watching this documentary I can predict that this man will be hanged from the gallows by two men in masks...don't ask me how I know this, I just had a vision....
You have to love the last line "(the Iraqi people's) long nightmare is over." Yup, just by removing Saddam from power definitely turned Iraq into the land of milk and honey.
@@rorschachwatchmen4742 Mosul is rubble after the civil war and the Yazidis are fugitives after their homes were destroyed and their people harmed. The balance of power was altered, there is a good argument that this would not have happened if they had let Iraq in peace like Bush sr. was intelligent enough to do
Duh. I hate how that's supposed to be a dirty thing. The world runs on oil. It's just reality. So it makes sense to ensure the price and availability remains stable. For the world's sake. America could hold all the oil in the world but it would mean nothing if other countries collapse due to the lack of it. Who else would you want in charge of that? Hussein? Lol get real
Andy Matherson Hi Andy. Ok, first of all, Kuwait and Iraq. A large oil deposit straddles the Iraq-Kuwait border. Roughly 2/3rds of it sits on the Iraqi side of the border, yet Saddam had quite generously agreed to a gentlemanly 50/50 extraction arrangement with the Kuwaitis. OPEC members are bound by a collective agreement that uses each member state's total proven reserves to determine the amount of crude they are permitted to pump and sell on the international market. Saddam received evidence the Kuwaitis were extracting and selling more than their allowed quota. This reduced the spot-price of crude on the international market and reduced the profit margin on all oil exports, including Iraq's. Iraqis were enjoying the highest standard of living of any Arab state, and despite the massive costs of the Iran-Iraq war, Saddam had embarked on a series of social programs. These included a highway building project that linked stone-age villages to the markets of larger towns and cities, which reduced rural isolation and poverty. He embarked on a drive to improve education standards, particularly among women, with cheap student loans for university education and the luring of overseas professors with high salaries. He embarked on a program to dam rivers and generate hydro-electric electricity to elevate a huge number of isolated villages into the electric age. This required the virtual genocide of the Marsh Arabs, who lived in hunter-gather fishing villages built on islands and floating foundations in the vast wetlands along the coast, and there is no denying Saddam was a ruthless and homicidal despot. However, the electrification, road-building and education programs, combined with a program to send doctors and health educators to the isolated villages, saw a massive improvement in Iraq's child-mortality rates. All of which had required a shitload of money, and this vast investment in Iraq's future had left the country's economy dangerously dependant upon oil export revenues to service loans and keep the country's accounts in the black. This meant that when Kuwait got greedy and began exporting more oil than they were entitled to under OPEC rules, the reduction in international oil prices caused a blow to Iraq's balance sheets Saddam could not afford to ignore. Saddam's oil minister warned the Kuwaitis at OPEC and Arab League meetings several times that there would be consequences if Kuwait didn't pull their heads in. Then the shit really hit the fan when it was revealed the Kuwaitis were using fancy new horizontal-drilling technology to drill sideways under the border and extract oil from the 2/3rds of the oil field which was on the Iraqi side of the border. Saddam turned up in person at the next meeting of the Arab League, slammed his fist on the table, pointed at a pale Kuwaiti oil minister, and told him Kuwait was all out of polite warnings, and that if they didn't halt their shenanigans, Iraqi tanks would roll into Kuwait City. He then had a meeting with a US envoy, I forget who is was off the top of my head, someone very high in the State Department, who carried a direct message from George HW Bush that, "Your dispute with Kuwait is a regional matter, and of no concern to the United States". In the read-between-the-lines dialect of diplomats, this was a green light to invade Kuwait from the same US State Department which had authorised his invasion of Iran and provided him with chemical weapons and logistical support during that war. So the myth that Saddam's invasion of Kuwait was unprovoked, or without warning, is utterly ridiculous to anyone who knows the facts. Which brings us to the Iran-Iraq war. The USA and Britain engineered the coup that saw the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran overthrown by armed mobs, and the installation of Shah Pahlavi, the "King of Kings" in the 1950s. The Iranians then endured a reign of terror under this Western puppet, who ran the largest and most brutal secret police service the Middle East has ever seen. The Shah's secret police utilised rape and torture, and we're not talking about "legal" torture like waterboarding or sleep deprivation. We're talking twenty soldiers raping your wife and daughter in front of you. Then they march 100 fresh soldiers in, remove your gag, and ask if you'd like to rat on your buddies now, or should we keep going? We're talking using electric drills to drill through suspect's kneecaps and elbows. We're talking cutting women's breasts off, inserting electrodes in vaginas, and hooking jumper-cables to men's testicles. We're talking strapping people to a metal bed frame, suspended from the ceiling, and lowering them slowly onto gas-burners. The Iranians endured this reign of terror - imposed on them by the USA and Britain, who considered the Shah their best friend in the Middle East, before the Iranians finally rose up in revolution led by the Muslim clerics and the Shah fled the country. Saddam feared the spread of Shia revolutionary ideas into Iraq, because he tolerated no religious extremism, his government was comprised of Sunnis, but the majority of the population were Shia. The USA were reeling from the sudden loss of their puppet state, and were equally fearful of the spread of Shia revolution and the loss of their good buddy Saddam, who like the Shah, sold the USA oil for cheap and kept Islamic radicals in check, or in prison. Not only did the USA tacitly support Saddam's invasion of Iran, they aided him. US Navy warships were sent to the gulf, providing radar early warning of Iranian air force movements. They got directly involved and fired upon Iranian ships on several occasions. When human-wave Iranian land attacks pushed Saddam's army back, the US used "dual-use" loopholes to export a Dow Chemicals kit-set "pesticides factory" to Iraq, along with many of the chemical precursors needed to make chemical weapons. They even provided US engineers to manage the plant. Like the factory itself, the US used "dual-use" loopholes to export a squadron of helicopters to Iraq, to be used by the "Department of Agriculture" for "aerial spraying". The same helicopters were identified by western journalists a few weeks later at an Iraqi air-base, painted camo, armed to the teeth with heavy machine guns and weapons racks. These same helicopters were used weeks later to attack Kurdish villages and fire rockets with chemical weapons payloads on civilians. The US even provided Saddam with KH-11 Keyhole satellite images of Iranian troop movements, and space-based weather imagery, to help Saddam determine how and where to most efficiently deploy his chemical weapons against the vast numbers of very lightly armed Iranian "Republic Guard" divisions - civilian volunteers given no training, handed an AK, and told to "attack in waves and die as martyrs". What is remarkable about that, is the Keyhole satellites were so new, so high-tech, their capabilities so super-secret, that the USA had previously declined to share imagery with Britain and Israel, lest anyone discover just how precise the image resolution was. So when the US government bleated about "Saddam used chemical weapons and even gassed his own Kurdish citizens" and used that as an excuse to go invade and occupy Iraq, those of us familiar with modern history vomited in the back of our throats a little. There are many more reasons to eye-roll and face-palm while watching this ridiculous propaganda film, but what I've already explained should be sufficient. I highly recommend visiting your library, or Amazon, and obtaining a copy of Robert Fisk's excellent book, "The Great War for Civilisation - The conquest of the Middle East". Fisk has been a Middle-East correspondent, first The Times of London, and later The Independent of London, since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. He has lived in Lebanon and travelled to every hotspot and frontline in the region throughout a career spanning nearly four decades, and is widely considered to be the most knowledgeable westerner on Middle Eastern affairs alive today. Read his book on an empty stomach, because there is a lot of gore, torture and sickening detail packed into those 1,300 pages.
As I read through the comments, I'm reminded of yet another reason that the invasion of Iraq was an incredibly foolish decision. By deposing Saddam Hussein and unleashing the horrors of Pandora's box, the US unwittingly made a martyr of him. There are millions of people throughout the world who see him as a hero for standing his ground against America and its allies. I believe we must be consistent and fair in our condemnation of terror and tyranny. Saddam Hussein was a ruthless despot, a megalomaniac with a genocidal streak. Hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis were murdered by his regime. Countless more died in his attacks on neighbouring countries like Kuwait or Iran. To venerate him in any way is to insult the memory of the Kurdish villagers - men, women, children, infants - who succumbed to a slow and agonizing death from being exposed to poison gas. It degrades the millions of victims who died of his treachery. You can condemn America for the war and the disaster it has wrought, but do not do so whilst praising Hussein or minimizing the depravity of his regime.
@Mattatron First of all, I've never claimed to be American (I'm Canadian). Secondly, your comment makes no sense. Care to elaborate on your assertions re. my decision making?
That was on purpose. He was too weak to be compared to Stalin. Stalin was a major factor in the winning of WWII whereas Saddam was mostly bluster. Stalin was definitely a monster who committed many atrocities but he at least did some good in regards to ridding the world of Nazis.
I love how they make a big deal about him trying to build nuclear weapons as well as weapons of mass destruction and how the UN were not allowed to search them but fail to mention how thats regular around the world in countries such as the US, UK, Russia and Pakistan..... When its someone the US doesn't like or doesnt have the power to go against then its an issue I guess
Did your president found the nuclear bullshit??? You Americans leave Iraq in dark place... And then you robbed all oil and fuel or Iraq... That's why Iraqi people nowadays missing sadams regiment.... Sadam love his people Iraqi but sadam hate Iraqi people who wants to ruin his love for Iraq... Then now what happened to Iraq??? You foolish Americans...
Yeah you’re and..... Adolf Hitler Joseph Stalin Mao Zedong Benito Mussolini Francisco Franco Muammar Gaddafi Ferdinand Marcos Park Chung Hee Kim Jong Il Was Charismatic too.... #Dictators
@@jairehedselvillapando2110 Park Chung Hee and Gaddafi were actually good dictators. If Park wouldn't have been a President in South Korea then it would be poorer than North Korea And Gaddafi made his country Libya one of the richest countries until his death.
I spit on him..I hate bush..he should give justice to his people in America for 9/11 , rather than bringing sadam to justice. which is not even his contry
Whenever I think of Saddam, I’m reminded of the time he was so shocked that Americans have freedom of speech and are able to publicly disrespect the POTUS. 😂 It’s like he couldn’t even comprehend it.
With respect to the remarks at 25:33, the failure of the Soviet-supplied T-72s to take on the M1 Abrams MBT in Operation Desert Storm was due to the T-72's lack of night vision equipment (the Russian T-90 and T-14 have night vision equipment).
@@drjacob2276shut up Umari gandu he was Yazeed of this era when someone kills ur family brutally then come back and comment… fucking nasty sunni race is dirty like Umar Lanati Beshumar
Nick Nick You seemed to have missed the irony. The USA doesn't care about the people. That's all just BS to soothe the conscience of the masses when innocents die. One day Iran is "the enemy", the next day it's being propped up as a future potential ally aginst ISIS. In 5 years time? In ten years time? Who knows. Maybe "the enemy" again :-)
It was the Best way to indirectly Pay Back Iran and the Ayatollah for the 52 people kidnapped and held hostage after the American Embassy was stormed. Iraq in the early 1980s was a good counterbalance to the Theocracy led by Zealots looking to make Nuclear war with Israel and dominate the Middle east. Often you must choose the lesser of two evils or the Evil of two lessers. Saddam was secular and was far easier to deal with as far as Christians are concerned.
I still remember what I was doing when Saddam's capture was announced: my mother was driving us home from dinner at Luby's when the news on the radio announced it, then started playing an incredibly tasteless parody song called "Saddam the Red-Nosed Idiot". If you can't guess the tune it was played to, what star system are you from?
Kewibawaan dunia bukan semata di takuti kekuatan pemimpin yang otoriter dan radikal akan tetapi kekuatan itu dibangun karena kekutan militer dan kebenaran dan keadilan dari seorang pemimpinnya.
Sadam Husain loves Iraqi people and Iraq... But Americans loves they're fuel and oil... That's why you American took war to Iraq... And now what happened when you attacked Iraq??? Tsk tsk tsk... You attacked Iraq and then you took the oil and then you leave Iraqi people in dark Iraq... That's the truth and nothing but the truth...
When they say "hi-tech weapons", they mean me. You can just about see me at 25:52 preemptively suicide bombing the worlds first suicide bomber. Had to disguise myself as sand, and lie in wait on the desert floor for three weeks until he made a run at the American line.
as an Arabian guy, i believe the Middle East turned to hell when Saddam fell April 9, 2003, because Saddam was a great leader to stabilize the region. when he fell, Iran felt confident then started to destabilize the Middle East until today and for a long time I guess, the Iranians couldn't do anything when Saddam was in power. I disagree with Saddam policy against Kurds, but i agree with his policy against Shia, because iraqi's Shia want their country to be rulled by Iranian regime from day one so Saddam has the right to protect his country . don't get me wrong, even in the US Constitution, if any state or group of people trying to get out of the federal Union armed forces will deal with that, not the musicians or the artists. Saddam is the Arab symbol now days. he is our che.
No my friend, 95 % of Iraqi Shias did not want Iraq to be a puppet state of Iran. You are talking about a small minority who were sympathetic to and members of Dawa Party and SCIRI and such small groups led by Iraqi mullahs. In 8 years of war the Iraqi shias stood shoulder to shoulders with their fellow Iraqi sunni brothers and defended their country proudly against the devil Khomayni and crushed his dreams in 1988. However the Iranian Mullahs did not stop trying and always sent agents, spies, and provocateurs into Iraq to create disunity and sectarian divide in Iraq. That is what you saw in 1991 with the so called "Shia uprising".
I love how ppl (including Americans) have realised that "it was better off with him in power even though he was a dick himself"! As an Iraqi I find that funny. it's too late people it's too late...
All the Saddam supporters seem to be Arabs and Muslims who did not live in Iraq. I got a free falafel in a Kurdish Kebob place because my country took him out.
Hussein was power-hungry ,ruthless, cruel and was just arrogant. His only goal in his life was to become powerful and recognized, but his arrogance proved to be his downfall and he was executed for his crimes.
In my opinion the kind of leaders that those countries like Iran need are those who will help and not treat them like animals. Hussein had repressed those civilians for many years. No disrespect, but I just don't agree with opinion.
The last time the americans attack Iraq had anything to do with Kuwait it was about the Americans accused Iraq had the mass destruction weapons which they couldn't find in the end. Kim Jung Ill treat his people like shit so when the Americans going to save its people? Wait...there is oil in NK.
I guess I like to know what all sides are saying to get a better grasp on the overall situation, I'm glad you're aware. I was quite surly I must admit, I should possibly not comment on anything in the mornings lol
in tyrannos: why not speak about the tyranny of the great vast number called the majority or probably the responsability of an invisibly administration?
Yup.What they don't tell you is that while working as a scientist, on the doomsday project, Saddam invented Mac & Cheese for a very close terminally ill Jewish friend.
As evil as Saddam was, there are people who make him look like an angel. I call them snobby extroverts who like to talk to everybody (including teenyboppers and scumbags) except decent people with ADHD.
I am going to assume this documentary is not going to talk about how the U.S. against the wishes of the iraq people helped Saddam into power and supplied him with gas weapons that he used against the iranian people. I guess we are not going to talk about while Saddam was brutal, Iraqi people learned to live with him and not try to overthrow him because he was using the oil revenue to rebuild the economy of iraq and provided great benefits to the iraqi people like free health care and education. I guess this documentary is not going to talk about how kuwait a british protectrate drilled into iraq to steal oil and saddam decided to invade kuwait to save the iraqi economy, but before he asked his masters in the U.S. government if he was free to do so, would it suit well with them. The response was this is an arab issue, we won't get involved. Thus after saddam invaded Kuwait, the U.S. acted shocked from this form of agression even though he was given the green light. Since then iraq has been economically sanctioned and bombed that ended in deaths of millions of iraqs from bombing, cancer due to the depleted uranium and starvation or death due to lack food and medicine thanks to the inhumane sanctions. Later the U.S. launches a war to "liberate" iraq from saddam (hmm, i guess it doesn't have anything to do with the fact that Saddam was looking for buyers for oil in other nations, or that he was trying to exchange oil in other currencies like euro. All of that in the attempt to save the iraqi economy and continue providing benefits. Yeah i suppose that had nothing to do with that. Rolls eyes) The iraqi army was defeated (very obviously), iraqi police and militias (iraqi people who had no love for saddam but wanted to protect their nation from U.S. and British aggression) were defeated one by one. Any form of resistance being armed or unarmed was met with brutal consequences. The main goal for U.S. was to get the oil into their hands Obviously and to divide iraq into pieces along sectarian lines. Iraqi people who lived side by side peacefully found themselves divided. U.S. sponsored death squads specifically targeted sunnis doing what they can to prove a civil war, not to mention bombs were planted in cars all over the country to inflict massive civilian causality and justify U.S. and British Military presence. When the new iraqi police caught some of the prepatrators of these bombings (british soldiers), they were forced to let them go. To make matters even worse, Iraqi thief, robbers, rapists and other criminals that were locked up in prision were released, and the iraqi police that usually was there to protect to citizens, museums and other important locations were already eliminated by the U.S. military, not to mention any civilian militia that tried to protect their communties. The Result was looting. So have i guessed that this documentary doesn't include any of these fact.
+Homosexual Jesus What kind of name is that? You shouldn't mock Jesus Christ! I feel sorry for you if you don't repent. I pray you do for your own sake.
"Their long nightmare is over" in Iraq... Oh, sure... now Iraq is a paradise...
4:05 "she said: this child in my womb wants to be the only man in the family".
How could she know the child was a male? Sounds like they made it up to make the story more interesting.
I don't think they did ultrasound exams on the Iraqi countryside in the '30ies.
Kristina S. Потому, что у тебя не хватает ума понять смысл сказанного.Твоя тупость причина.
In the third world they know brother
Why did Saddam Hussein lose the Gulf War?
because he beat around the Bush
XD lol
ha gatee
nice pun!
*political puns intensify*
Funny joke, given that Bush 41 was president of the US during Operation Desert Storm.
"long nightmare is over" yeah right
"You can build a throne out of bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long."
-Boris Yeltsin
You're un orginal self be not fooling anyone.
-Mr Sir
@DesGardius tell that to Putin
Saddam may have his faults but Iraq is clearly better with Saddam, look at Iraq now.
only because he had over a million soldiers at his side crushing any uprising and committing acts of mass genocide against any people that backed the uprising. america could put a million troops in iraq and do the same and keep the "peace" iraq was already an un stable country to begin with.
When saddam was in power the iranians and the Saudis were shiting in their pants he had the whole region in schack he wouldnt let those things happend in his country or in syria if saudi even spole to a iraqi he would destroy them. Im a iraqi shia and im swear to god if he only were good to his country men he would have the whole iraq support him but he was cruel thats why his army surended when USA invaded iraq. And one more thing kuwait is a iraqi town it is not a country it was the british imperialist who it a country in the 1960s.
***** the true is the zionist goverment in america and Israel dont give a fuck about the iraqi people They invade iraq becouse saddam wanted a strong iraq and he wanted the arab people to unite and be a strong force to reconize. In saddams days it was no fredom and the goverment was very cruel to iraqi people but what happends after the regims fall is Worse i think. And saddam had very corupt people in his goverment and his son uday was a mad man. If saddam gave the iraqi more freedom and not so much violence i promise you the army would never surended when the americans and their allies came. Iraq need a strong leader and someone who give freedom to all the people i promise you that you would se a strong country like it was in the 70s and 80s before the american war and sanctions.
perhaps you would feel different if you lived through his rule
Sara Bower saddam is a better ruller to iraq then Israel is to palestine :)
Biased and partial as fuck. Half of this shit is fictitious.
Murica fuck yeah
+T18k24s Hes an ignorant arab-of course he thinks this is fake. Hes considered a gifted and talented Arab as he is literate, a skill half his people lack...
Nick Nick LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!
+Omeed Al-Omary أوميد العمري I dont mean to be a prick.... I just cant stand it when people pretend Saddam was a good guy simply cause they hate Bush. Its ridiculous.
+Nick Nick If Saddam was evil, then he'd be a necessary evil.
Being a iraq war vet, and serving with the 75th Ranger Regiment for four years I can tell people this is not exaggerated mabey toned town. What happened to these people was horrendous and sickening! Thinking of places like Fallujah the saying " those who have seen war will always see it, in the silence of the night they will always hear the screams" comes to mind. Good content keep it coming.
Thanks, but no thanks, for your “service” we all know you don’t even have a CIB. We also don’t care for your piss-poor analysis of Amo Saddam Hussein al Majid Al Tikrit!
Damn Saddam, may he be damned!
Rather him than Isis. Same with gaddafi. America and uk got rid of them because they were the only ones who didn't bow down to usa
Did you work in Saddam's torture chambers?
Nice documentary...a look into bloody history.. Good work
Final words of the narrator: "Their long nightmare is over."
After watching this documentary I can predict that this man will be hanged from the gallows by two men in masks...don't ask me how I know this, I just had a vision....
You have to love the last line "(the Iraqi people's) long nightmare is over." Yup, just by removing Saddam from power definitely turned Iraq into the land of milk and honey.
Sadaam had to go eventually but an invasion was not the way to do it we killed hundreds of thousands civilians
@@rorschachwatchmen4742 100,000s a don’t think so.
@@zne29m37 yes
@@rorschachwatchmen4742 Mosul is rubble after the civil war and the Yazidis are fugitives after their homes were destroyed and their people harmed. The balance of power was altered, there is a good argument that this would not have happened if they had let Iraq in peace like Bush sr. was intelligent enough to do
@@jonjon-gi4mh we just didn’t need to go to war we could’ve handled that situation way differently
Kuwait was not American business, but oil was.
Duh. I hate how that's supposed to be a dirty thing. The world runs on oil. It's just reality. So it makes sense to ensure the price and availability remains stable. For the world's sake. America could hold all the oil in the world but it would mean nothing if other countries collapse due to the lack of it. Who else would you want in charge of that? Hussein? Lol get real
Thanks for the info
Oh my god, this one-sided American drivel makes me puke in the back of my throat.
The lies of omission contained in this crap are too many to list.
I got to about 3:30 before I gave up on this propaganda pretending to be a documentary.
Hi Daniel, could you list some? As this video makes it look like Americans were the heros, which I doubt is completely true.
Andy Matherson Hi Andy. Ok, first of all, Kuwait and Iraq.
A large oil deposit straddles the Iraq-Kuwait border. Roughly 2/3rds of it sits on the Iraqi side of the border, yet Saddam had quite generously agreed to a gentlemanly 50/50 extraction arrangement with the Kuwaitis.
OPEC members are bound by a collective agreement that uses each member state's total proven reserves to determine the amount of crude they are permitted to pump and sell on the international market.
Saddam received evidence the Kuwaitis were extracting and selling more than their allowed quota.
This reduced the spot-price of crude on the international market and reduced the profit margin on all oil exports, including Iraq's.
Iraqis were enjoying the highest standard of living of any Arab state, and despite the massive costs of the Iran-Iraq war, Saddam had embarked on a series of social programs.
These included a highway building project that linked stone-age villages to the markets of larger towns and cities, which reduced rural isolation and poverty.
He embarked on a drive to improve education standards, particularly among women, with cheap student loans for university education and the luring of overseas professors with high salaries.
He embarked on a program to dam rivers and generate hydro-electric electricity to elevate a huge number of isolated villages into the electric age.
This required the virtual genocide of the Marsh Arabs, who lived in hunter-gather fishing villages built on islands and floating foundations in the vast wetlands along the coast, and there is no denying Saddam was a ruthless and homicidal despot.
However, the electrification, road-building and education programs, combined with a program to send doctors and health educators to the isolated villages, saw a massive improvement in Iraq's child-mortality rates.
All of which had required a shitload of money, and this vast investment in Iraq's future had left the country's economy dangerously dependant upon oil export revenues to service loans and keep the country's accounts in the black.
This meant that when Kuwait got greedy and began exporting more oil than they were entitled to under OPEC rules, the reduction in international oil prices caused a blow to Iraq's balance sheets Saddam could not afford to ignore.
Saddam's oil minister warned the Kuwaitis at OPEC and Arab League meetings several times that there would be consequences if Kuwait didn't pull their heads in.
Then the shit really hit the fan when it was revealed the Kuwaitis were using fancy new horizontal-drilling technology to drill sideways under the border and extract oil from the 2/3rds of the oil field which was on the Iraqi side of the border.
Saddam turned up in person at the next meeting of the Arab League, slammed his fist on the table, pointed at a pale Kuwaiti oil minister, and told him Kuwait was all out of polite warnings, and that if they didn't halt their shenanigans, Iraqi tanks would roll into Kuwait City.
He then had a meeting with a US envoy, I forget who is was off the top of my head, someone very high in the State Department, who carried a direct message from George HW Bush that, "Your dispute with Kuwait is a regional matter, and of no concern to the United States".
In the read-between-the-lines dialect of diplomats, this was a green light to invade Kuwait from the same US State Department which had authorised his invasion of Iran and provided him with chemical weapons and logistical support during that war.
So the myth that Saddam's invasion of Kuwait was unprovoked, or without warning, is utterly ridiculous to anyone who knows the facts.
Which brings us to the Iran-Iraq war.
The USA and Britain engineered the coup that saw the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran overthrown by armed mobs, and the installation of Shah Pahlavi, the "King of Kings" in the 1950s.
The Iranians then endured a reign of terror under this Western puppet, who ran the largest and most brutal secret police service the Middle East has ever seen.
The Shah's secret police utilised rape and torture, and we're not talking about "legal" torture like waterboarding or sleep deprivation.
We're talking twenty soldiers raping your wife and daughter in front of you.
Then they march 100 fresh soldiers in, remove your gag, and ask if you'd like to rat on your buddies now, or should we keep going?
We're talking using electric drills to drill through suspect's kneecaps and elbows.
We're talking cutting women's breasts off, inserting electrodes in vaginas, and hooking jumper-cables to men's testicles.
We're talking strapping people to a metal bed frame, suspended from the ceiling, and lowering them slowly onto gas-burners.
The Iranians endured this reign of terror - imposed on them by the USA and Britain, who considered the Shah their best friend in the Middle East, before the Iranians finally rose up in revolution led by the Muslim clerics and the Shah fled the country.
Saddam feared the spread of Shia revolutionary ideas into Iraq, because he tolerated no religious extremism, his government was comprised of Sunnis, but the majority of the population were Shia.
The USA were reeling from the sudden loss of their puppet state, and were equally fearful of the spread of Shia revolution and the loss of their good buddy Saddam, who like the Shah, sold the USA oil for cheap and kept Islamic radicals in check, or in prison.
Not only did the USA tacitly support Saddam's invasion of Iran, they aided him.
US Navy warships were sent to the gulf, providing radar early warning of Iranian air force movements. They got directly involved and fired upon Iranian ships on several occasions.
When human-wave Iranian land attacks pushed Saddam's army back, the US used "dual-use" loopholes to export a Dow Chemicals kit-set "pesticides factory" to Iraq, along with many of the chemical precursors needed to make chemical weapons. They even provided US engineers to manage the plant.
Like the factory itself, the US used "dual-use" loopholes to export a squadron of helicopters to Iraq, to be used by the "Department of Agriculture" for "aerial spraying".
The same helicopters were identified by western journalists a few weeks later at an Iraqi air-base, painted camo, armed to the teeth with heavy machine guns and weapons racks.
These same helicopters were used weeks later to attack Kurdish villages and fire rockets with chemical weapons payloads on civilians.
The US even provided Saddam with KH-11 Keyhole satellite images of Iranian troop movements, and space-based weather imagery, to help Saddam determine how and where to most efficiently deploy his chemical weapons against the vast numbers of very lightly armed Iranian "Republic Guard" divisions - civilian volunteers given no training, handed an AK, and told to "attack in waves and die as martyrs".
What is remarkable about that, is the Keyhole satellites were so new, so high-tech, their capabilities so super-secret, that the USA had previously declined to share imagery with Britain and Israel, lest anyone discover just how precise the image resolution was.
So when the US government bleated about "Saddam used chemical weapons and even gassed his own Kurdish citizens" and used that as an excuse to go invade and occupy Iraq, those of us familiar with modern history vomited in the back of our throats a little.
There are many more reasons to eye-roll and face-palm while watching this ridiculous propaganda film, but what I've already explained should be sufficient.
I highly recommend visiting your library, or Amazon, and obtaining a copy of Robert Fisk's excellent book, "The Great War for Civilisation - The conquest of the Middle East".
Fisk has been a Middle-East correspondent, first The Times of London, and later The Independent of London, since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
He has lived in Lebanon and travelled to every hotspot and frontline in the region throughout a career spanning nearly four decades, and is widely considered to be the most knowledgeable westerner on Middle Eastern affairs alive today.
Read his book on an empty stomach, because there is a lot of gore, torture and sickening detail packed into those 1,300 pages.
Charles Noble Read my post below.
Daniel Stephens-Hunt Amazing and informative post, thanks for sharing. Read all of it.
As I read through the comments, I'm reminded of yet another reason that the invasion of Iraq was an incredibly foolish decision. By deposing Saddam Hussein and unleashing the horrors of Pandora's box, the US unwittingly made a martyr of him. There are millions of people throughout the world who see him as a hero for standing his ground against America and its allies.
I believe we must be consistent and fair in our condemnation of terror and tyranny. Saddam Hussein was a ruthless despot, a megalomaniac with a genocidal streak. Hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis were murdered by his regime. Countless more died in his attacks on neighbouring countries like Kuwait or Iran. To venerate him in any way is to insult the memory of the Kurdish villagers - men, women, children, infants - who succumbed to a slow and agonizing death from being exposed to poison gas. It degrades the millions of victims who died of his treachery.
You can condemn America for the war and the disaster it has wrought, but do not do so whilst praising Hussein or minimizing the depravity of his regime.
LIES!
@@HerrXoxy "I tell you, he's "lying"! I TELL YOU THAT! 🤡"
@Mattatron First of all, I've never claimed to be American (I'm Canadian).
Secondly, your comment makes no sense. Care to elaborate on your assertions re. my decision making?
Bro thank you for this insite ,because he all so lit 400 or4000 oil wells on fire all at once plus what you said
Thank you because I don't know shit.
Well said, sir.
Saddam looks like the Arabic version of Joseph Stalin
Thats what Saddam was trying to do.
@@oimate3 # that why he is dead.
But unfortunately unlike Stalin, he failed to win any war, didn’t expand his influence or territory and didn’t make his country a superpower.
A. Ferdosi better
That was on purpose. He was too weak to be compared to Stalin. Stalin was a major factor in the winning of WWII whereas Saddam was mostly bluster. Stalin was definitely a monster who committed many atrocities but he at least did some good in regards to ridding the world of Nazis.
Now we know why he ruled Iraq the way he did,look at Iraq today.
I love how they make a big deal about him trying to build nuclear weapons as well as weapons of mass destruction and how the UN were not allowed to search them but fail to mention how thats regular around the world in countries such as the US, UK, Russia and Pakistan..... When its someone the US doesn't like or doesnt have the power to go against then its an issue I guess
Except why do they want to make it easier for Iran to get them?
Great point
Did your president found the nuclear bullshit???
You Americans leave Iraq in dark place... And then you robbed all oil and fuel or Iraq... That's why Iraqi people nowadays missing sadams regiment.... Sadam love his people Iraqi but sadam hate Iraqi people who wants to ruin his love for Iraq... Then now what happened to Iraq??? You foolish Americans...
Stalin was his hero..nuff said
They even looked like brothers
saadam was a charismatic leader
He was a dictator not a leader.
Yeah you’re and.....
Adolf Hitler
Joseph Stalin
Mao Zedong
Benito Mussolini
Francisco Franco
Muammar Gaddafi
Ferdinand Marcos
Park Chung Hee
Kim Jong Il
Was Charismatic too....
#Dictators
@@jairehedselvillapando2110 Park Chung Hee and Gaddafi were actually good dictators.
If Park wouldn't have been a President in South Korea then it would be poorer than North Korea
And Gaddafi made his country Libya one of the richest countries until his death.
Poking fun at the documentary's history remix - turning facts into a comedy show! 😄🎬
Good man
I spat on the computer screen when I saw Bush's face.
Andy Lester lol
+GeneralJamin2799 bush was a good president
atika nimo hahaha
I spit on him..I hate bush..he should give justice to his people in America for 9/11 , rather than bringing sadam to justice. which is not even his contry
+bushra m lets date
Whenever I think of Saddam, I’m reminded of the time he was so shocked that Americans have freedom of speech and are able to publicly disrespect the POTUS. 😂 It’s like he couldn’t even comprehend it.
When was that?
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 it makes sense why he wouldn't comprehend something like that!
What is the music used throughout this video
With respect to the remarks at 25:33, the failure of the Soviet-supplied T-72s to take on the M1 Abrams MBT in Operation Desert Storm was due to the T-72's lack of night vision equipment (the Russian T-90 and T-14 have night vision equipment).
Yet they couldn't because US possessed f14 tomcat
Too man Saddamy fanboys on the comments section :')
True they are fascists
Some people still think he is a war hero.
The reason many people see him like that is because Saddam defended his country from Iran's influence, Zionists and later Americans.
if hes not war hero then look nat iraq now
@@drjacob2276shut up Umari gandu he was Yazeed of this era when someone kills ur family brutally then come back and comment… fucking nasty sunni race is dirty like Umar Lanati Beshumar
“Their long nightmare is over” LOL
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
Hmm...if the USA was so appalled at Saddam invading Kuwait, why weren't they similarly appalled when Saddam attacked Iran?
Double standards?
Ralph Bernhard The U.S. gets pissed when her puppets turn against her.
Your short sighted on that one. You don't have the facts or info required to an accusation of that sort
Ralph Bernhard exactly buddy
Iran isn't our ally.... Kuwait is. Its not rocket Science-idiot.
Nick Nick You seemed to have missed the irony.
The USA doesn't care about the people. That's all just BS to soothe the conscience of the masses when innocents die.
One day Iran is "the enemy", the next day it's being propped up as a future potential ally aginst ISIS.
In 5 years time?
In ten years time?
Who knows. Maybe "the enemy" again :-)
It was so much better when he was there. ISIS wouldn't be here if Saddam was still the leader of Iraq.
SERIOUSLY? HE WAS A MURDERING TYRANT. they just changed one murderer for another murderer. ISIS
diane flock I would rather have Saddam then ISIS.
Even Gaddafi was a good leader
diane flock Saddam was better in Iraq than ISIS. Even the Kurds have agreed on this.
trading one mass murderer for another, what is right about that?
Why does the intro song sound more like a cheesy 90's disney channel programme, rather than a ruthless dictators biography?
GOD BLESS SADDAM HUSSEIN, A TRUE HERO ❤️🇮🇶
No mention of the slightly important detail that the US was funding him with several billion dollars of aid during the Iran war.
It was the Best way to indirectly Pay Back Iran and the Ayatollah for the 52 people kidnapped and held hostage after the American Embassy was stormed. Iraq in the early 1980s was a good counterbalance to the Theocracy led by Zealots looking to make Nuclear war with Israel and dominate the Middle east. Often you must choose the lesser of two evils or the Evil of two lessers. Saddam was secular and was far easier to deal with as far as Christians are concerned.
THE BEST NON-MUSLIM is not even equal to THE WORST MUSLIM.
May Allah (Subhanallah wa ta'ala) have Mercy on us all.
FusedHalos you may be right, you've not just used that logic here.
You are right, they can't be equal. I don't know who's better but I know who's not, the Muslim...
Muhammad is a pedophile.
#nsa i hope is enough
you're a very sick man
I still remember what I was doing when Saddam's capture was announced: my mother was driving us home from dinner at Luby's when the news on the radio announced it, then started playing an incredibly tasteless parody song called "Saddam the Red-Nosed Idiot". If you can't guess the tune it was played to, what star system are you from?
Kewibawaan dunia bukan semata di takuti kekuatan pemimpin yang otoriter dan radikal akan tetapi kekuatan itu dibangun karena kekutan militer dan kebenaran dan keadilan dari seorang pemimpinnya.
0:13
i bet the people of iraq are missing saddam now, good job george
cucumber they re cowards yes you re right , they love to be sodomized
He should have left Kuwait when the United Nations told him too.
The legs of a man in the world did not fear death, brave man in the sense of the word
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
Where's the documentary on George Bush?
I am wondering why this film doesn't tell what Saddam did in Cairo in detail and how US embassy there learned and directed him
When was this?
1960 to 64 after the Ba’ath party tried to assassinate the president.
🙏
It was really a come up to get him.
Next episode : Tyrants and Dictators - Barack Obama
So he married his 1st cousin
hitek9wittafulclip in most muslim countries actually
@@A.A_xv not a tradition, more like something that's not taboo or looked down upon
Just watched 'House of Saddam' on HBO. If you enjoyed this documentary, you will love the mini series...
Sadam Husain loves Iraqi people and Iraq... But Americans loves they're fuel and oil... That's why you American took war to Iraq... And now what happened when you attacked Iraq??? Tsk tsk tsk... You attacked Iraq and then you took the oil and then you leave Iraqi people in dark Iraq... That's the truth and nothing but the truth...
When they say "hi-tech weapons", they mean me.
You can just about see me at 25:52 preemptively suicide bombing the worlds first suicide bomber.
Had to disguise myself as sand, and lie in wait on the desert floor for three weeks until he made a run at the American line.
where can i find the episode about Bush?
weapons of mass destruction which american was searching was in israel not in iraq .
Also mention the nerve gas which Bush senior provided to Saddam against Iran and mention also Abu Gharib prison
Monsters!
RESPECT FOR SADDAM HUSSEIN FROM INDIA
***** LOL Then we are friends Fk middle east and USA
***** So why you abused me when I am giving respect for saddam?
***** Well whatever you thinks I also love Russia
"Their long nightmare is over" LOL
Im doing saddam for a project. Any chance someone knows when this show came out cos I need to reference it in my summary?
he was a courageous man
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as an Arabian guy, i believe the Middle East turned to hell when Saddam fell April 9, 2003, because Saddam was a great leader to stabilize the region. when he fell, Iran felt confident then started to destabilize the Middle East until today and for a long time I guess, the Iranians couldn't do anything when Saddam was in power. I disagree with Saddam policy against Kurds, but i agree with his policy against Shia, because iraqi's Shia want their country to be rulled by Iranian regime from day one so Saddam has the right to protect his country . don't get me wrong, even in the US Constitution, if any state or group of people trying to get out of the federal Union armed forces will deal with that, not the musicians or the artists. Saddam is the Arab symbol now days. he is our che.
No my friend, 95 % of Iraqi Shias did not want Iraq to be a puppet state of Iran. You are talking about a small minority who were sympathetic to and members of Dawa Party and SCIRI and such small groups led by Iraqi mullahs. In 8 years of war the Iraqi shias stood shoulder to shoulders with their fellow Iraqi sunni brothers and defended their country proudly against the devil Khomayni and crushed his dreams in 1988. However the Iranian Mullahs did not stop trying and always sent agents, spies, and provocateurs into Iraq to create disunity and sectarian divide in Iraq. That is what you saw in 1991 with the so called "Shia uprising".
make a video of tyrant George W Bush.
I love how ppl (including Americans) have realised that "it was better off with him in power even though he was a dick himself"!
As an Iraqi I find that funny. it's too late people it's too late...
You a fan of saddam?
@@rolandtomassi3486 of course not
26:07 why would you put your hand onto a moving tank?!
To high five it
Wonder how Omar Ail got that suit and tie
the americans had no business there .always sticking there nose
Iraq was better with Saddam . now it is a hell .
Ah yes. The old. Iraq was better under that murderer argument. Yeah no.
I agree with Barry Lab ... Iraq is hell now . it was good and better on Saddam time . he was not great but better than ISIS and killing
Are you getting your milk stuart?
watching this video was a very... american experience..
It’s been almost 30 years after saddam and Iraq got why worse than it was
He was a true leader, an honourable muslim and a true patriot. This is transparent propaganda so easy to see through
He never hurt any Christians
لا يوجد اي رايس في العالم وهو من سيكون في التاريخ مدا الحياة صدام حسين المجيد من قهر المجوس
A nation under dictator or under terrorists? Which one is better?
Saw the title, started to watch, saw the intro **OFF**
All the Saddam supporters seem to be Arabs and Muslims who did not live in Iraq.
I got a free falafel in a Kurdish Kebob place because my country took him out.
What a crazy warlord
And they are still avenging..
I miss you boss
I can't forget you
He was an incredible man, I love him
Remnants of his army in ISIS will show the world.
The end of Isis is fast approaching. They proclaimed a glorious Caliphate - now they are defending only dust and ever growing mountains of rubble!
Uh, jackass...he is dead. He can't hurt you.
not really but he kept iraq together and protected from terrorists
Im sure he would feel proud of our recent victories against ISIS
Hussein was power-hungry ,ruthless, cruel and was just arrogant. His only goal in his life was to become powerful and recognized, but his arrogance proved to be his downfall and he was executed for his crimes.
U know nothing about Saddam u must be an American
In my opinion the kind of leaders that those countries like Iran need are those who will help and not treat them like animals. Hussein had repressed those civilians for many years. No disrespect, but I just don't agree with opinion.
Please tell me what does that have to do with Hussein?
the fact is that you can be a dictator but you need to belong to a strong country....like Putin is dictator but America can't touch him
the lion of the desert blood for oil
American propaganda. ....
Dont bother
The last time the americans attack Iraq had anything to do with Kuwait it was about the Americans accused Iraq had the mass destruction weapons which they couldn't find in the end. Kim Jung Ill treat his people like shit so when the Americans going to save its people? Wait...there is oil in NK.
Crossfitter989 well said
Charles Noble america proped him up the begin with to overthrow the elected leader who wanted to nationalize iraq oil
Two wrongs don't make a right.
I guess I like to know what all sides are saying to get a better grasp on the overall situation, I'm glad you're aware. I was quite surly I must admit, I should possibly not comment on anything in the mornings lol
in tyrannos: why not speak about the tyranny of the great vast number called the majority or probably the responsability of an invisibly administration?
This documentary miss many important part
Yeah...like it wasn't even saddam they captured..but a fake.
1 minute into this video i could tell it was propaganda lol
How?
+kieronicsmoke not even 1 min at 0:40
+james franklin Does the Truth classify as propaganda now?
Lol this is bullshit propaganda
Yup.What they don't tell you is that while working as a scientist, on the doomsday project, Saddam invented Mac & Cheese for a very close terminally ill Jewish friend.
Moor Letoh What a guy!
hahaha
So whats the truth? Enlighten us!
yeah and no mention of the fact the US and the west supported him and sold him arms for a long time
As evil as Saddam was, there are people who make him look like an angel. I call them snobby extroverts who like to talk to everybody (including teenyboppers and scumbags) except decent people with ADHD.
Wicked stepfather/uncle.....
saddam is ur master he is a hero god bless him
Saddam is a pervert, Diddy gay and a moran . He got hanged and is fucked in Hell
I am going to assume this documentary is not going to talk about how the U.S. against the wishes of the iraq people helped Saddam into power and supplied him with gas weapons that he used against the iranian people. I guess we are not going to talk about while Saddam was brutal, Iraqi people learned to live with him and not try to overthrow him because he was using the oil revenue to rebuild the economy of iraq and provided great benefits to the iraqi people like free health care and education. I guess this documentary is not going to talk about how kuwait a british protectrate drilled into iraq to steal oil and saddam decided to invade kuwait to save the iraqi economy, but before he asked his masters in the U.S. government if he was free to do so, would it suit well with them.
The response was this is an arab issue, we won't get involved. Thus after saddam invaded Kuwait, the U.S. acted shocked from this form of agression even though he was given the green light. Since then iraq has been economically sanctioned and bombed that ended in deaths of millions of iraqs from bombing, cancer due to the depleted uranium and starvation or death due to lack food and medicine thanks to the inhumane sanctions.
Later the U.S. launches a war to "liberate" iraq from saddam (hmm, i guess it doesn't have anything to do with the fact that Saddam was looking for buyers for oil in other nations, or that he was trying to exchange oil in other currencies like euro. All of that in the attempt to save the iraqi economy and continue providing benefits. Yeah i suppose that had nothing to do with that. Rolls eyes)
The iraqi army was defeated (very obviously), iraqi police and militias (iraqi people who had no love for saddam but wanted to protect their nation from U.S. and British aggression) were defeated one by one. Any form of resistance being armed or unarmed was met with brutal consequences. The main goal for U.S. was to get the oil into their hands Obviously and to divide iraq into pieces along sectarian lines. Iraqi people who lived side by side peacefully found themselves divided. U.S. sponsored death squads specifically targeted sunnis doing what they can to prove a civil war, not to mention bombs were planted in cars all over the country to inflict massive civilian causality and justify U.S. and British Military presence. When the new iraqi police caught some of the prepatrators of these bombings (british soldiers), they were forced to let them go.
To make matters even worse, Iraqi thief, robbers, rapists and other criminals that were locked up in prision were released, and the iraqi police that usually was there to protect to citizens, museums and other important locations were already eliminated by the U.S. military, not to mention any civilian militia that tried to protect their communties. The Result was looting.
So have i guessed that this documentary doesn't include any of these fact.
Well said
Saddam the best of leader to government of IRAQ ....
viva
highly biased documentary .another futile attempts by this channel
Propaganda
Supergoraw A cheap one.
walee sadam xuseen geesi carbeed
that where bush got the intel that iraq had a wmd, from a clinton(or should i say magellan) press conference ;)
Sadam the great will remain in my heart...
holy shit
Today the world is paying for it in one way or the other.
This is fake story
+Homosexual Jesus What kind of name is that? You shouldn't mock Jesus Christ! I feel sorry for you if you don't repent. I pray you do for your own sake.