In Monty Python and the Holy Grail, King Arthur finds his path blocked by the Black Knight, a belligerent fellow who happens to be no good at fighting. The Knight loses an arm , then another, then both legs to Arthur’s superior swordsmanship. He is left in pieces on the ground, screaming to the departing King, “You yellow bastard, come back here and take what’s coming to you!” That was the image of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, bloodied but unbowed and unenlightened after his humiliation in the 1991 Gulf War, when a U.N. mission led by the U.S. drove his troops out of Kuwait and kindled a holocaust of as many as a 100,000 Iraqis. It is Saddam Hussein’s will to fight and his resistance to UN inspections that he should be removed from power.
One of the reasons he needs to be removed from power is because actions in the gulf war.
Aug. 2 1990 Saddam Hussien invaded Kuwait
with 100,000 Iraqi troops & 300 tanks crushed 16,000Kuwait troops
Jan 17, 1991 2AM 26 hours after UN deadline - Operation Desert Storm
During this war he used propaganda to control his people much like Hitler
This all demonstrated that he has the means and the money to pose the kind of threat he was in the Gulf War.
Sen. Ben Campell, a Colorado republican, suggests a creative solution to this cost by putting a 100 million dollar bounty on Saddam’s Head
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