Saddam Hussein

Examples of Saddam Hussein in the following topics:

• The Middle East

  • In September 1996, Clinton ordered Operation Desert Strike in response to Saddam Hussein's attempt to launch an Iraqi military offensive campaign in the Kurdish town of Arbil in Iraqi Kurdistan.
  • This was in response to Saddam's refusal to cooperate with UN inspectors.
  • After the bombing, Hussein blocked any further UN inspections and announced its attempt to shoot down Coalition aircraft in the no-fly zones over Iraq.
  • Secretary of State Madeline Albright later wrote "Saddam Hussein could have prevented any child from suffering simply by meeting his obligations. "

• The War on Terrorism

  • Iraq had been listed as a State Sponsor of Terrorism by the U.S. since 1990, when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait.
  • Hussein's regime proved a continuing problem for the U.N. and Iraq's neighbors due to its use of chemical weapons against Iranians and Kurds.
  • Baghdad, Iraq's capital city, fell in April 2003 and Saddam Hussein's government quickly dissolved.
  • -led coalition and the newly developing Iraqi military and post-Saddam government.
  • Iraq's former president, Saddam Hussein, was captured by U.S. forces in December 2003.

• The War on Terror

  • Baghdad, Iraq's capital city, fell in April 2003 and Saddam Hussein's government quickly dissolved.
  • -led coalition and the newly developing Iraqi military and post-Saddam government.
  • Other elements of the insurgency were led by fugitive members of President Hussein's Ba'ath regime, which included Iraqi nationalists and pan-Arabists.
  • Iraq's former president, Saddam Hussein, was captured by U.S. forces in December 2003.

• Voter Turnout

  • For instance, Saddam Hussein's 2002 referendum was claimed to have had 100% participation.
  • For instance, Saddam Hussein's 2002 referendum was claimed to have had 100% participation.

• Iraq

  • Some U.S. officials also accused Iraqi President Saddam Hussein of harboring and supporting al-Qaeda, but no evidence of a meaningful connection was ever found.
  • The invasion, referred to as Operation Iraqi Freedom, led to an occupation and the eventual capture of President Hussein, who was later tried in an Iraqi court of law and executed by the new Iraqi government.

• Propaganda and the Mass Media

  • During the Gulf War (1990), the media's failure to report on Saddam Hussein's peace offers guided the public to look more favorably on the U.S. government's actions.

• The Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

  • Economic sanctions imposed on Iraq by the United Nations, and American attempts to foster internal revolts against President Saddam Hussein’s government, had further tainted the relationship.
  • Blix argued that while Saddam Hussein was not being entirely forthright, he did not appear to be in possession of WMDs.
  • Despite Blix’s findings and his own earlier misgivings, Powell argued in 2003 before the United Nations General Assembly that Hussein had violated UN resolutions.
  • Soon Americans back home were watching on television as U.S. soldiers and the Iraqi people worked together to topple statues of the deposed leader Hussein around the capital.
  • Clockwise, starting at top left: a joint patrol in Samarra; the toppling of the Saddam Hussein statue in Firdos Square; an Iraqi Army soldier readies his rifle during an assault; a roadside bomb detonates in South Baghdad.

• September 11th and the War on Terror

  • Claiming that Iraq’s president Saddam Hussein was building weapons of mass destruction, perhaps with the intent of attacking the United States, the president sent U.S. troops to Iraq as well in 2003, beginning the Iraq War.
  • The Bush administration mainly claimed for the necessity to intervene to prevent Saddam Hussein from deploying weapons of mass destruction prior to launching an armed attack .

• NATO and the Militarization and Interventions Abroad

  • The US mainly sided with Iraq, believing that Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini threatened regional stability more than Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
  • The US also allowed the shipment of "dual use" materials, that could be used for chemical and biological weapons, ostensibly for agriculture, medical research, and other civilian purposes, but they were diverted for use in Saddam's weapons of mass destruction programs.

• Foreign Policy After the Cold War

  • Regional powerbrokers in Iraq and Saddam Hussein challenged the peace with a surprise attack on the small nation of Kuwait in 1991.
  • Bush organized a coalition of allied and Middle Eastern powers that successfully pushed back the invading forces, but stopped short of invading Iraq and capturing Hussein.