Saddam Hussein and Iraq

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Saddam Hussein and Iraq
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Early Life and Career

• Saddam Hussein was born in a small village 100
  miles from Baghdad
• He lived in poor conditions and was abandoned by
  his dad
• Mom remarried and step-dad was cruel to Saddam
• At 10 years old, he moved to the city and lived
  with his uncle who taught him hatred of Western
  ideas
• In 1979, he pushed his cousin out of the
  presidency and took over
• He arrested and killed his enemies including his
  friends
• Set-up security agencies to spy on his own people
• His pictures are every where and his birthday is
  a national holiday
• He led a war with Iran that lasted 8 years
  killing 200,000 Iraqi soldiers
• He used (some say tested) biological and chemical
  weapons on his own peoplethe Kurds

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Saddam HusseinGenocide of the Kurds

• The New York Times described in its obituary how
  Saddam "murdered as many as a million of his
  people, many with poison gas. He tortured, maimed
  and imprisoned countless more.
• Estimates as to the number of Iraqis executed by
  Saddam's regime vary from 300,000500,000,
  estimates as to the number of Kurds he massacred
  vary from 70,000 to 300,000.
• Between 1986 and 1989, Saddam Hussein unleashed a
  genocidal campaign against the Kurdish people of
  Northern Iraq. He used ground offensives, aerial
  bombing, systematic destruction of settlements,
  mass deportation, firing squads, and chemical
  warfare. Saddam Hussein also captured Kurdish
  populations and transported them to detention
  centers. After a few days in these camps, the men
  accused of being enemies were trucked off to be
  killed in mass executions.

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Statistics

• According to the Human Rights Watch during the
  genocidal campaign, the Iraqi government
• Destroyed about 4,000 villages (out of 4,655) in
  Iraqi Kurdistan. Between April 1987 and August
  1988, 250 towns and villages were exposed to
  chemical weapons
• Destroyed 1,754 schools, 270 hospitals, 2,450
  mosques, 27 churches
• Wiped out around 90 of Kurdish villages in
  targeted areas.

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A cemetery in a Kurdish village in northern Iraq,
holds the remains of nearly 70 people killed in a
chemical attack by Saddam Husseins military
forces on March 22, 1988.
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Khawar Mahmoud, 55, pictured with her husband,
came to the village three days after the attack
and found animals and birds dead on the ground,
and her brother badly burned. Her brother lost
his pregnant wife and six children in the attack.
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A part of Sewsenan that was not rebuilt. Ms.
Mahmoud said that after the attacks, doctors
treated injured villagers in secret because
survivors discovered by Iraqi soldiers were taken
away and never seen again.
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Archaeologists and physical anthropologists
exhumed 114 victims of the Kurdish genocide from
a mass grave in the center of Iraq's Muthanna
province. Nine other mass graves nearby remain
unexcavated.
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Persian Gulf War
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Countries involved in the warWho vs. Who

• Iraq invades Kuwait for Oil
• US and UN coalition (34 other allied nations)
  will support Kuwait.

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Leaders

• Saddam Hussein Iraq
• President George Bush (Sr.)

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Time Period

• 1990-1991

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Location

• Iraq invades Kuwait, US and other UN forces
  invade through the Persian Gulf

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Causes of War

• Saddam Hussein claims to own oil rich land in
  Kuwait. Uses this excuse to invade Kuwait and
  claim his land.

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Outcome of war

• UN and US force Iraqi troops to withdrawal from
  Kuwait- It took 100 hours for coalition to WIN
• Iraq must get rid of biological weapons and
  remove ALL nuclear producing facilities
• Freedom in Kuwait
• Trade embargo with Iraq

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Video Clips

• George H. W. Bushs Declaration (start at 320)
  http//www.youtube.com/watch?vhA2jitVn21Q
• Overview 255 http//www.youtube.com/watch?vsIl
  GF948aDU
• Desert Storm- 1991 Overview 145
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vtJGs2BDKq5gfeatur
  erelated (145)
• ABC World News Tonight- Start of the Persian Gulf
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vXOMRPia8NeMfeatur
  erelated (724)

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What was it like???

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vtJGs2BDKq5gfeature
  related (145)
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vXOMRPia8NeMfeature
  related (724)
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vhA2jitVn21Qfeature
  related (start at 316 to 554)

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The IRAQ WAR

• The Facts

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What It Looks Like
http//www.youtube.com/watch?vcdY_00N1KL8feature
results_videoplaynext1listPL0F8F3FFA8097C061
(about 3 min long)
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Countries involved

• WHO The United States vs. Iraq
• Time Period
• WHEN 2003 to 2011
• Location
• WHERE The Middle East Iraq

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IRAQ-Operation Iraqi Freedom

• WHO The United States vs. Iraq
• LEADERS
• Presidents
• George W. Bush
• Barack Obama vs. Saddam Hussein

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Specifics

• LEADERS
• WHO President Bush Jr. vs. Saddam Hussein
• CAUSES
• WHY WMDs or Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq
• Some say it is over oil
• Some say it is Little Bush getting back for his
  daddy not killing Saddam during the Persian Gulf
  War of the 1990s
• Some say to bring democracy and freedom to the
  Iraqi people

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Remember..

• After Persian Gulf War, UN told Iraq and Hussein
  to destroy WMDs
• Several times the UN tried to visit Iraq to check
  on this, but Hussein wouldnt allow it
• After 9/11, Pres. Bush pushed UN to be more
  forceful
• This goes back and forth until late 2002

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Final Warnings

• In early 2003, Pres. Bush and the UN finally get
  a resolution to allow UN officials to check Iraq
  for WMDs this was withdrawn because France and
  Germany didnt like it
• On March 17, 2003, Bush gives Hussein an
  ultimatum leave Iraq in 48 hours or face
  military action
• Within days, USA gets information that Hussein
  and his top officials are hiding underground

• George W. Bushs Speech (1329)
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vvr7OKqqTb_o

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War Begins

• On March 20, 2003 at 230am in Iraq, USA sends 3
  dozen Tomahawk missiles with 1000lb warheads into
  Baghdad (Iraqs capital)
• Within hours more targets are hit and the war,
  code named Operation Iraqi Freedom, has started
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vTvaU3ZiBmGwfeature
  related(223 BBC Live at First Attack)
• Taking over Baghdad took roughly 21 days
• It was celebrated around the world when Husseins
  statue was torn down by his own people

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FALL OF SADDAM

• Despite hiding out in bunkers and underground
  (literally), Hussein was captured
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vnd-1i0bFEv4 (451
  Saddams Last Stand-look at his hideout)
• He was put on trial for crimes against humanity
  and sentenced to death
• He was hanged on Dec. 30, 2006

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OUTCOME

• 4,800 coalition forces killed---4,500 USA
• Final troops came home December 2011
• Democracy in Iraq
• http//www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/story/201
  1-12-15/Iraq-war/51945028/1 (131 taking down
  flag and speeches)

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• What do people think of this war?