Mentions (15)
"It was because under Saddam Hussein, Iraq was seen as a major security threat to Israel. Now we get to watch it unfold all over again in Iran."
"They clearly want to be living in some sort of Denmark of the Middle East and are distressed at the fact their reputation is now closer to that of Saddam's Iraq."
"mine is being the main character of my year of rest and relaxation: waking up at 2 pm, binge watching something niche and stupid like early seasons of survivor or a saddam hussein documentary, drinking at 5 pm"
"I just realized how funny it would have been to have fumbled the trial OJ style"
"She still listens to the radio, I remember being in her kitchen as a child and hearing that Saddam Hussein was hanged, maybe I'll have a grandkid that will be amazed at that someday."
"Would have really cleared up a lot of things about his intentions towards America!!!"
"They've been in power since before Saddam Hussein, the Assad regime, Gaddafi, Robert Mugabe, Hosni Mubarak, Pinochet, and Pol Pot, to name a few, almost all of whom have been gone for years or decades by now."
"If you think about it, all historical figures- good or bad- have cool, dominant-sounding names: Saddam Hussein, Winston Churchill, Josef Stalin, Steve Jobs, Theodore Roosevelt, etc."
"saddam got unsanctioned okay for Kuwait invasion or a smaller version of from a us official"
"The Fuhrerbunker, the Waco compound, bin Laden's Pakistani sex compound, Saddam's spider hole, Mar-a-Lago - the compound thing just doesn't tend to be a long-term solution to a 'you' problem."
"Reading about Saddam Hussein's last meal and wondering what you all would choose for yours. I like his choice, personally. Its obviously kind of plain but that's not a bad way to go. The hot water and honey is adorable lol."
"The boomer mind still does remember the spectacular imagery of the Gulf War, Iraq war and the capture of Saddam that bonded the nation."
"I'll never forget how part of Saddam Husseins propaganda routine was regularly bursting into tears to reinforce the emotional impact of whatever he was trying to sell people."
"Assad's dad took power a year after Gadaffi, 2 years after the Ba'ath party, with Saddam as second-in-command, took over Iraq for the final time. Yet another middle-eastern domino has fallen, crazy"
"Paul Bremer is an obscure State Department official who, between 2003 and 2004, had more power over Iraq than Saddam Hussein ever did because he ran the coalition government."