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Who is Saddam?

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Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti (28 April 1937 鈥?30 December 2006) was the fifth President of Iraq and Chairman of the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council from 1979 until his overthrow by US forces in 2003. He was executed after being found guilty of war crimes at his trial in 2006.

He was a member of the revolutionary Ba'ath Party, which espoused secular pan-Arabism, economic modernization, and socialism. Saddam played a key role in the 1968 coup that brought the party to long-term power. As vice president under the ailing General Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, Saddam tightly controlled conflict between the government and the armed forces鈥攁t a time when many other groups were considered capable of overthrowing the government鈥攂y creating repressive security forces. In the early 1970s, Saddam spearheaded Iraq's nationalization of the Western-owned Iraq Petroleum Company, which had long held a monopoly on the country's oil. Through the 1970s, Saddam cemented his authority over the apparatuses of government as Iraq's economy grew at a rapid pace.

As president, Saddam maintained power through the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988) and the first Persian Gulf War (1991). During these conflicts, Saddam repressed movements he deemed threatening to the stability of Iraq, particularly Shi'a and Kurdish movements seeking to overthrow the government or gain independence, respectively. While he remained a popular hero among many disaffected Arabs everywhere for standing up to the West and for his support for the Palestinians, U.S. leaders continued to view Saddam with deep suspicion following the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Saddam was deposed by the U.S. and its allies during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Source(s): wikki
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stop already with the Saddam questions...go look him up on Google.
Saddam is my homie in Iraq. I used to "hang" out with him in the desert. We used to call ourselves the Baghdad Rollers, kinda biker gang stuff...except of course, we didn't actually have bikes. The camels were pretty fast though