This question has been nagging me for some time as I’ve heard different things about him from different people(some say he was a tyrant, some that he was not) and I can’t post it on reddit.
What do people think when they hear his name.
This question has been nagging me for some time as I’ve heard different things about him from different people(some say he was a tyrant, some that he was not) and I can’t post it on reddit.
What do people think when they hear his name.
Of course I wouldn’t suggest that Sadaam was to the level of an ethnic supremacist. However I’d definitely say he existed on the more chauvinistic end of the Arab Nationalist spectrum.
Although I guess the Kurdish point stands. I’m more criticizing him for using chemical weapons rather than suppressing a separatist movement (that the US had a large hand in orchestrating).
Again I will be bias as I grew up with stories from my mother describing how the Iraqi army treated Iranians, so I’ve tried to be open about information regarding Sadaam’s rule as to better deal with those biases.
Though I think this post has inspired me to ask the same question about Hafez Assad, the other side of the Ba’ath in a sense.
Considering my father speaks of him so highly, it looks like another set up biases for me to interrogate.