... the Kurds were forced to go to Iran. February 1, 1976 he was given M.A. Honors Degree in Military Sciences. October 8, 1977 he was elected the Assistant Secretary General of the National Pan-Arab Leadership of the Baath Party. On July 16, 1979 Saddam Hussein was elected as the President of Iraq and as the Chairman of Revolution Command Council. The following day ... he was promoted to the rank of Field Marshall. Then on October 8, 1979 he was elected Deputy Secretary General of the Pan-Arab Leadership of the Baath party. On September 4, 1980 he initiated a war with Iran. He attacked the...

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... that the thalweg, a line running down the middle of the waterway was the official border negotiated in 1975. The Iraqis also perceived revolutionary Iran's Islamic agenda as threatening to their pan-Arabism. Not only did the Iranians lack solid leadership but they also lacked the spare parts to their American made equipment, according to Iraqi intelligence. Baghdad, on the other hand ... ...

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... lost control the same year. During the next five years, the Party would undergo change, and after regaining power in 1968, would come out with a new credo: while maintaining a pro Pan-Arab stance, the real focus was on independent Iraqi patriotism "Iraq First (Baram 12-17). Out of this new beginning, there emerged Sadden Husayn. Husayn was a politician who had ... ...

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... win their support (Miller). Bush has changed his focus of the war numerous times. In the beginning, he used a connection between Saddam Hussein and Al-Qaeda, but that did not pan out. As a result, he changed it to weapons of mass destruction. No weapons were discovered, so he exaggerated the importance of the facilities and supplies to make weapons. Now his ... ...

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... there were 31,000 incidents - with 70,000 people killed. There's a long list of terrorist actions, but some caught our attention in a very big way. Like the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland where 270 people lost their lives (December 21). And the 1995 bombing of the Federal Building in Oklahoma City, which left 168 people dead ... ...

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... was to join other opposing parties to form the United National Front, which lead to a revolution in 1958. The party created a new republican government and hoped that it would favor pan-Arab causes, but the outcome turned out to be opposite. The Baathists took it into their own hands and decided that the current Iraqi leader had to be removed. They ... ...

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... to a head when every possible communal group took out their hatreds on each of their enemy groups for fear of being lost in the power struggle. Once the Kurds and pan arabs were defeated by Qasim, he turned on the Communists and threw them in jail. The Baath party filled the gap and increased their power base. On October 1959, a Baath ... ...

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... became consumed with the idea of creating a racially purified Aryan Germany and extending it to all of Europe, Saddam's goals, formed along with his Baathist principles, were aimed at creating a pan-Arab world and a master race. David Brooks of The Review describes Saddam's position that "Someday there will be a great historical culmination [presumably between the Arab world and the United States ... ...

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