... that someone was a family member. There was absolutely no toleration for anything anti-Saddam. He has also sponsored a type genocide that targeted various religious and ethnic groups such as the Shiite and Kurd populations that resides in many areas inside Iraq's borders. Saddam even targeted these ethnic groups in other countries such as Iran, and in 1980 Iraq invaded Iran and ... started murdering tens and thousands of Shiite and Kurdish individuals. Human Rights Watch estimated that Iraq's aggression towards the Kurds resulted in the number of deceased Kurds reaching in the 100,000's...

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... proved disastrous for Iraq if not for its leader. After swift, devastating and conclusive defeat in the field, his troops withdrew. In the north and south of Iraq, Kurds and Shiite Arabs rose up, with the tacit approval of the United States but these rebellions were savagely put down by Hussein's government. The humanitarian crisis caused UN troops to deploy into ... ...

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... 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 ... ...

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