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... way imaginable. There are thousands of political refugees from nuclear scientists to news reporters that were falsely tortured and imprisoned by Saddam. There are hundreds of thousands of Kurds and Shiite Muslims that were Murdered purely on their religious beliefs and ethnicity. This is called genocide, the total and complete annihilation of a race within a certain area. Do some dictators from the ... ...
... Iranian section called Khuzestan, an area known for it's oil fields. A more important issue than geography was religion. Both nations were Muslim, with the leaders from Iran mainly from the Shiite branch and the leaders of Iraq from the Sunni. Before the Iranian revolution, the distinction between the countries was less religious than ideological. The ruling Ba'ath Party in Iraq ... ...
... was said that if you did not vote for him, you would have your food rations stripped for a month and you would be sent to live in the desert. Jowad, a Shiite Muslim said, "we vote for Saddam because we have no choice" (Cooperman 49-50). If you cannot win an election fairly, perhaps you have too much control over your country ... ...
