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@zanaahmadi123
Ай бұрын
Please make a video about the 1979-1983 Kurdish Iran war I can help u
@user-mh3er8mx7b
Ай бұрын
Evil maniac as a Kuwaiti person 😂 -this message was sponsored by the sabah family
@zanaahmadi123
Ай бұрын
@@user-mh3er8mx7b ? I’m not Kuwaiti I’m Kurdish
@communistparty-zs2ts
Ай бұрын
@@zanaahmadi123 i am
@BillGreenAZ
Ай бұрын
I used to work with an Iraqi man. He said everyone he knew had a family member killed by Saddam. But he also said Iraqis would rather have Saddam in power than be occupied by George Bush and the US. Imagine how much hate they could have for such a barbarous man. Now imagine how they would prefer him over being occupied. A benevolent dictator is sometimes the best leader for a people.
@eligreg99
21 күн бұрын
When that’s all you know of course you’ll hate the people that come in and ruin that false sense of stability. I bet if we went to North Korea to free those people, somehow the world would spin it around and turn it into a bad thing.
@MuhammedAL-Chad-nz4jx
13 күн бұрын
No One Wants Foreign Rule...
@rawadilshad7110
12 күн бұрын
That's not what it is, though. A benevolent dictator is better than a bunch of benevolent dictators who hide under the guise of democracy as it is the case right now.
@youvebeengreeked
Ай бұрын
I recently learnt about Saddam's son, Uday, and, erm... good lord. He makes Saddam look nice.
@HikmaHistory
Ай бұрын
This video was originally intended to be 45-ish mins, the section on Uday was one of the casualties unfortunately. What a messed up human being.
@oneshothunter9877
Ай бұрын
Most likely a result of his parents being first cousins. Strange tradition, if you ask me.
@malegria9641
Ай бұрын
True, the guy was so evil that saddam had to literally imprison him repeatedly just to uphold his own reputation. Uday once got mad at Saddam’s favorite server at a party and in front of saddam, the president of Egypt, and multiple party guests, murdered him with a turkey knife
@youvebeengreeked
Ай бұрын
@@oneshothunter9877 Probably. And being one of the most spoilt brats in history.
@ObviouslyNotABlackadder
Ай бұрын
And for some reasons, Uday Hussein is always not included in every pro-Saddam Hussein's comments. Intentionally forgetting his existence and his impact on messed up Iraqi politics.
@barracuda6900
Ай бұрын
There's no disputing that dictatorships and authoritarian regimes can bring stability - at least temporarily. But if that stability is dependant on repression and the rule/whims/worship of one leader with no accountability, it's just liable to fall apart after a while.
@RoniiNN
Ай бұрын
It would still be a dictatorship if he worked with cia
@hydra8845
Ай бұрын
You think the whims of the masses are somehow better then the whims of one man? Democracy will always choose the easy path and vote to give themselves more money even at the detriment of the future of the nation.
@barracuda6900
Ай бұрын
@@hydra8845 one unaccountable leader can be much more dangerous. Malignant narcissism and a sense of invincibility will develop in that individual. The unrestrained will of the masses can lead to anarchy and even another dictatorship, but it holds much more potential for accountability and a more free and equal society.
@barracuda6900
Ай бұрын
@@hydra8845 also, not everyone is voting to "give themselves more money". If you think that is what all voters are thinking about, that tells me a lot more about you.
@HistoryOfRevolutions
Ай бұрын
Define stability
@Language_Guru
9 күн бұрын
I am an American who taught English in the Kurdish region of Iraq for 3 1/2 years (4 months in Zakho, a bit over a month in Sulaimaniyah, and 3 years in Duhok). I learned that most Kurds loathed Saddam while most Arabs looked back with nostalgia on his era. However, there were a few Kurds who had a positive view of Saddam. My best friend there told me that in Saddam's time you could travel from one end of the country to another in perfect safety. There was no terrorism. As long as you kept out of politics, you were fine. Gasoline and kerosene (used for space heaters) were so cheap they were almost free. Another Kurdish friend, from the town of Amedi, told me about when Saddam visited his house when he was child. Saddam made trips to towns around the country every month or so to be seen with the common people. My friend's father was a humble porter in the local market and he had eleven children, so theirs was a poor family. Well, Saddam (with his entourage) came to visit them. He asked, ""Sir, do you have a refrigerator?" Father: "No, Mr. President." Saddam (to an aide): "Get him one." (To the father): "Do you have a TV?" Father: "No, Mr. President." Saddam (to an aide): "Get him one." Saddam went away and the fridge and TV were promptly delivered. My friend said they were of good quality. He added that current Iraqi presidents go on similar goodwill visits to the provinces, but when they say they will send items, there is a long delay and the items are of poor quality. When Kurds learned that I was an American they were thrilled. The overwhelming majority were grateful to America for getting Saddam out of their region. Many had died and many had gone into exile during Saddam's time. Quite a few of my students at the university in Duhok had lived in Iran or various European countries during Saddam's time. Their families had only returned to Kurdistan after Saddam was overthrown. A lot of my fellow professors were Arabs from the city of Mosul. A number of them returned to Iraq from Libya after the Arab spring started in early 2011. In my mind the first question that occurred was, "Why the heck would you go from Iraq to a hellhole like Libya with its crazy leader Qaddafi?" After a while, though, I realized that Saddam's style of government was not atypical for the Middle East, nor was Qaddafi's. Authoritarian dictators are the norm, not the exception. So if you grow up in a country where such a government has always been the norm, regardless of whether the leader is called a king or a president, that is just how life is. If you see that all the countries around you are governed in the same way, it just seems normal. And as I see the terrific challenges faced by American democracy, I see that more than a few Americans wish that they lived under a dictator who supported their beliefs and prejudices.
@davidnice1
2 күн бұрын
Well spoken
@monz9994
Ай бұрын
You got it wrong buddy. The reason for invading Kuwait had to do with Kuwait pumping more oil than agreed with other gulf nations. Maybe don't do documentaries if you're not going to do proper research
@mogh2603
13 күн бұрын
This channel is propaganda and research of public opinion, reporting facts is irrelevant.
@justsomeguywithoutamustach7402
9 күн бұрын
its a sovereign country that can pump more oil all it wants iraq is not a gulf nation country saddam invaded kuwait to mitigate loses on the iran-iraq war and go for "quick money" that doesnt have high casualties Kuwait was a perfect country to seize for Iraq, small nation, almost no military preparations at the time, doesnt cause much casualties, and a high fucking income saddam was a tyrant no matter how you slice it, iraqis look at him fondly as a way to cope with what is happening now
@mogh2603
13 күн бұрын
21:08 " Iraqi court of law",, under American military occupation.... What a Joke
@070Jun070
Ай бұрын
The way Saddam purged his political opponents on live TV while smoking a cigar is the most gangster thing I have ever seen. He also understood that combating theocratic sentiments is very important
@موسى_7
Ай бұрын
Combatting theocracy is very important for people who want to destroy their countries with the curse of God
@070Jun070
Ай бұрын
@@موسى_7 Especially islamic theocracy
@illestmelody6909
Ай бұрын
They’ weren’t just political enemies they were trying to sell Iraq to Syria
@alikjr5999
10 күн бұрын
He also proved to be the biggest idiot that ruled the country and his foolish wars and dictatorship and destruction can still be felt today in Iraq
@ZillyWhale
Ай бұрын
"I am the president of Iraq and I am willing to negotiate." -Saddam Hussein upon his capture.
@yaredo895
Ай бұрын
what was he supposed to say then ''howdy parTner''?
@LarryLarryize-wu4ru
Ай бұрын
He was negotiating and abiding by USA demands way before he was captured. Just listen to Scott Ritter. The war was about the ideology, they killed all the baathiat and all the intellectuals during their invasion, more of a pillaging
@johnhancock3666
16 күн бұрын
"Yea right old man, get the fuck out of that hole" -US Army Soldier
@iisomeoneii2091
15 күн бұрын
He's a countries president he's not supposed to be arrested by a foreign power unless he f'ed so bad
@mogh2603
13 күн бұрын
The occupying Americans said
@CirclingDuck
Ай бұрын
15:01 If Saddam's image was "as constant as the sun in the sky" does that mean it disappeared for 12 hours per day?
@Ruder6163
Ай бұрын
Only when you’re asleep
@lastword8783
Ай бұрын
The sun is still in the sky, youre just facing a part of the sky where the Sun isn't visible.
@CirclingDuck
Ай бұрын
@@lastword8783 The sun is in space, that's not the same thing as the sky.
@pg.travels
Ай бұрын
Maybe he travelled a lot?..
@51_cent
28 күн бұрын
Looking at his face only when the sun shined was no small commitment.
@AugustusHistory
Ай бұрын
Another great video Hikma!
@abc_cba
Ай бұрын
I was watching the films from "disturbing movie iceberg" When I watched a film under his rule, I literally threw up. I was amazed what this man was shown as a hero meanwhile what he committed on Shi'a Muslims, Marsh Arabs, Kurdish people. I request not to watch that documentary on archive website as you might need anti-depressants after it or may have sleepless nights. It has literal scenes of amputations on the streets, lashings, b-headings, I wonder how was he different from ISIS. His only safe group was the Assyrian/Chaldean Christians as he spent millions of dollars in their churches from Iraq to the Chicago, US in funds citing they are the only native people of modern Iraq meanwhile, all others like Circassians, Turkish, Mandeans, Shabaki, Kurds, everyone else were Arab. I mean - whaaaat?
@cameraman1234567890a
Ай бұрын
what is the name of the documentary?
@abc_cba
Ай бұрын
@@cameraman1234567890a search for "Buried in the Sand" but I would insist not to watch it, it would give you horrors for weeks to come.
@abc_cba
Ай бұрын
@@cameraman1234567890a Buried in the Sand
@elemperadordemexico
Ай бұрын
I assume the reason why they were protected was because the only guy he trusted, Tariq Aziz, was a Chaldean Christian and this was his patronage
@موسى_7
Ай бұрын
No surprise there, a lot of ISIS terrorists are former Saddam military and police agents.
@ilhamrahim9269
Ай бұрын
To be very clear: Saddam was a horrible leader who committed horrible crimes, however the framing of this video is absurd. The reason why Iraq was impoverished is transparently because of the USA. You at least mentioned the sanctions of the 90s but brushing aside the first gulf war is crazy… that war literally destroyed the entire Iraqi infrastructure, water plants, agricultural fields, electrical grids etc. Iraq had the highest standard of living in the Middle East at that point.
@mustafaali3333-q1m
Ай бұрын
Nope it because of saddam
@mustafaali3333-q1m
Ай бұрын
If saddam didn’t stupidly invade Kuwait America wouldn’t invade Iraq
@ShikakaDomiati
Ай бұрын
You are so wrong @@mustafaali3333-q1m
@jf3457
Ай бұрын
The guy impoverished Iraq by declaring war on Iran, which led to untold suffering and bankrupt every aspect of the country. . It was not the USA.
@jf3457
Ай бұрын
It was because Saddam invaded Iran. That war bankrupted the country. It was not the USA, you idiot. Sadam was not a real muslim.
@orboakin8074
Ай бұрын
I am not surprised many Iraqis look at him fondly. Here in Africa, some people now venerate dictators and brutal tyrants like Idi Amin😮💨
@ObviouslyNotABlackadder
Ай бұрын
Low Human Development Index & education is the root cause of idolizing those dictators blindly. Here in Indonesia most people who supported Soeharto dictatorship were the lowly educated ones.
@jattjamesbond1122
Ай бұрын
@@orboakin8074 only sunnis Iraqis that is nor more than 5-8% love him kurds asw ell as shias basically 90% plus population hate this bast ard saddam 😏
@DeadManSinging1
16 күн бұрын
Funniest thing about Idi Amin, he was for most of his reign a British puppet - But many Africans praise him as a liberator who was anti West.
@mogh2603
13 күн бұрын
03:19 this is 90s propaganda. In revealed interviews of US interrogating officers, Saddam said that his stepfather was very loving and warm, never discriminated between the children of the household, Saddam never held any grudge against him, rather he respected and loved him.
@hindurashtra63
Ай бұрын
America calls everyone a dictator except themselves.
@theancientone2269
Ай бұрын
because US presidents are elected and dictators came in coups
@domo2915
13 күн бұрын
Didn't watch the video yet, but i have an aunt who was 12 when got executed, i have relatives who were 2 and 4 years old when executed , and in the year 1991 there was an uprising, and Saddam's army was massively killing everyone even those who were trying to escape. Man was genociding his own people, not to mention the killing and the rape that happened after he invaded kuwait
@pouriajafarikia65
Ай бұрын
Great video as always hikma
@franekwojciechowicz3167
Ай бұрын
I was quite shocked when I learned that a lot of Jordanians see Saddam as a hero figure, very often having his portrait on cars and so on. As I was told by one Jordanian, they believe that Saddam could do much better for the ME if only the rest of the Arab countries were willing to help him with his cause.
@mogh2603
13 күн бұрын
I am Jordanian, born & living in Jordan , what you report is very true, and in fact, I personally hold the same conviction, he is the Arab Napoleon, gifted and brave patriot who got very unlucky, and died defeated. We believe israel is the core cause of most tragedies in the region , it is the anomaly that keeps distorting our lives throughout the middle-east, Saddam was the first to attack and humiliate israel, this is THE origin of emotional attachment to him in the Arab world.
@MuhammedAL-Chad-nz4jx
13 күн бұрын
No Such Thing As "middle east" It's Called Arabia And It's For Arabs Only...
@biometal770
Ай бұрын
Great video. Hikma is one of my favorite creators. Being from the US, it’s extremely important to understand the dynamics and history of the Middle East.
@abdullahassaffah
Ай бұрын
Saddam was great for iraq yes he was a dictator and did bad things which politician doesnt but saddam was great for iraq just look at the situation today even iraqi people are wishing saddam was still ruling them and he protected the sunni muslim from shia kafir
@MoAbuAkb
Ай бұрын
True
@gonfreaks937
25 күн бұрын
He was a hero, brave, pride, showed his hard side, humble side, proud side, never left his nation and gave its best for it.
@gonfreaks937
25 күн бұрын
This "rich" man you accuse of spending his time in night clubs without providing any evidence wore his military uniform if not most of the time inside of iraq, whether it was for inspecting his soldiers or visiting farmers sitting beside them in the middle of the desert.
@Mo-re8yo
25 күн бұрын
And of course His Kind Side plenty of Times. Made education free, schools free, healthcare free, nationalized oil, defended the arabs, stood Up for palestine, protected iraq from foreign influence etc.
@vengefullight4665
21 күн бұрын
Bro literally left his people and hid in a hole lmao
@Mo-re8yo
21 күн бұрын
@@vengefullight4665 are you really that d@mb? He could have packed his bags with Money and gold, take His Family and left iraq on a private Jet before the war even began. Instead He stayed. He Always stayed. It wasnt until his sons and grandson died in Battle along with his Army collapsing, that He decide to hide instead of offering him on a silver palette. What would you call prophet Mohammed (sas) that fled to meddina?
@stigmist
20 күн бұрын
He literally destroyed the economy left his people in poverty torture and killed alot of innocent people he even massacred the poor kurds went war with Iran destroyed the economy inflation infrastructure invaded kuwait a small muslim country and you call him hero brave? why was he hiding in a hole then?
@themanfromtheeast2048
Ай бұрын
your information regarding the invasion of Kuwait, the first gulf war and the economic embargo are very inaccurate. Also in regards to the chemical attack on Halabja, you failed to mention the involvement of both the CIA and Iran. All and all, your video is very biased.
@agostocobain2729
Ай бұрын
Ask Kuwaitis about Saddam, they will tell you how they feel
@Hellish_Life
Ай бұрын
@@agostocobain2729 no, ask authentic Iraqis about this
@agostocobain2729
Ай бұрын
@@Hellish_Life What, Iraqis like him?
@Hellish_Life
Ай бұрын
@agostocobain2729 What, betrayal Iraqis like the current government of Iraq that they hoped so badly?
@studentfmk9084
Ай бұрын
Hes afghan not iraqi@@agostocobain2729
@AllaahuAkbar60
2 күн бұрын
Say ALLAHU Akbar hundred times everyday after Fajr Namaz..
@dcanedemboyz7431
Ай бұрын
He might have impoverished my whole family, but he was a lion 🦁🦁🦁
@IAmTheOnlyLucas
Ай бұрын
Arabs politics is like: “I don’t care if he put your grandma in a c0ncentration camp. That n1gga was a lion.”🦁😭
@jattjamesbond1122
Ай бұрын
Well 70% of iraqi shia don't think he is a lion he is a coward dictator who ran like a rat when Murica invade Iraq how brave and lion react when somebody invade your country 😂
@موسى_7
Ай бұрын
True lions wear turbans and chant "Ali Ali Mawla"
@shahidabdoullakhanzorovr1564
Ай бұрын
@@موسى_7True lions don't deify men. Ali himself (ra) would lash some people for the things that they say on his behalf, if not worse.
@موسى_7
Ай бұрын
@@shahidabdoullakhanzorovr1564 Only idiots would say, in the age of the internet, that Shias worship Ali. Are you confusing us for Nusayris like Bashar al-Assad?
@alikjr5999
10 күн бұрын
as an Iraqi Saddam destructive behaviors, wars and tyranny made the country suffer far more than the 30 years he ruled.
@OFFICIALDJFLASHBACK
Ай бұрын
I've seen so many videos of Saddam Hussein, but this one is another one to add to the great vault. Thanks Hikma History for another great video! Love learning more about the history of the Middle East.
@McVaySwifty
Ай бұрын
Saddam is an example of what intellectuals like Hobbes like but what every citizen hates!
@masahibbhatti4088
Ай бұрын
Another banger video. Keep it up
@deathdoor
Ай бұрын
Hum... I feel that this video, for all it's good intentions, suffers from murrica's "worldview propaganda". Oh, it's a good opportunity to recommend the first season of the podcast Blowback. It's obligatory listening (the Gulf War was partially instigated by murrica).
@alisedighi7833
Ай бұрын
Saddam destroyed my hometown, Khorramshahr. I’m sick of western kids like you who think they’re open minded and intelligent when they defend Saddam or the Islamic regime in Iran. Your arrogance is due simply to your ignorance and false sense of self-righteousness. Go back to playing your video games and stop trying to pretend that you understand anything.
@takie9218
Ай бұрын
What do you mean by americas world view?
@nessunodorme3888
Ай бұрын
I'd say the Gulf War was entirely instigated by the US!
@idkwhattotype511
11 күн бұрын
@@takie9218 Superiority complex.
@MateoMPM
Ай бұрын
Hakimaa hakimaaaa please make one video about Hafez al assad
@HashiramaSenyu
Ай бұрын
Saddam was deposed by the US after many a times they tried through public revolts. Bqsically it was done to serve Iraq on a platter to shia IRan. Since Iraq has nearly all the sacred cities of Rafidism.
@elilina9442
Ай бұрын
Yeah saddam was bad but he wasn't that bad compared to people that currently in charge of the country , iraq is literally a failed state because of their mismanagement
@MoAbuAkb
Ай бұрын
True
@MuhammedAL-Chad-nz4jx
13 күн бұрын
No One Is "in charge" In Iraq Today. It's Not "mismanagement" If There's No Management To Begin With...
@MoeMa4
Ай бұрын
This message was approved by the American and Israeli government
@ObviouslyNotABlackadder
Ай бұрын
Defending saddam & uday is like shooting our own foot then blaming other people for it.
@MoeMa4
Ай бұрын
@@ObviouslyNotABlackadder aaaah yes... Attempting to hide the sun with a sieve, are we? Pretending those two had nothing with the destabilizing of Iraq. 🤡🤡
@MoeMa4
Ай бұрын
@@ObviouslyNotABlackadder defending Saddam?? Bless your heart!!! Is Saddam in the room with us now?
@ObviouslyNotABlackadder
Ай бұрын
@@MoeMa4 Time to held Iraqi politicians like Saddam & Uday accountable for their corruption, for their unnecessary war against Iran which made Iraq in huge debt & economic crisis, plus the subsequent Saddam invasion of Kuwait because his country under his administration clearly failed & bankrupt.
@Cyan_Nightingale
Ай бұрын
Ignoring Saddam's responsibility in how Iraq started downward the spiral of its doom was such a sad revisionist view.
@mr.goldenproductions_0143
Ай бұрын
Hikma, you're a treasure-trove of insight from a MidEast perspective, thank you!
@try2justbe
Ай бұрын
He is not even from the middle east. Stop it you're embarrassing yourself.
@mr.goldenproductions_0143
Ай бұрын
@@try2justbe Even if he might live in the West now, he clearly has a Mideast origin from his channel name to his slight but perceivable accent. You have no idea mate.
@try2justbe
Ай бұрын
@@mr.goldenproductions_0143 I'm pretty sure he's not from the Middle east. The name of his channel is no proof as arabic names are used all across the muslim world, especially in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. His accent is desi, too. it's not Middle Eastern. Edit: btw I'm from Iraq, and I've lived through the period he is talking about. So did my family, and this video is full of baised misinformation right from the start.
@mr.goldenproductions_0143
Ай бұрын
@@try2justbe So Saddam was a good guy? Come on man, I know quite a lot of guys from Iraq myself, and the constant terror and arbitrary violence and torture they recounted is not the way to a happy or prosperous society.
@HikmaHistory
Ай бұрын
@@mr.goldenproductions_0143 Intrigued by the accent comment - do I have a slight non-Western accent? I feel like I speak like any other Londoner.
@notactuallydumb3053
Ай бұрын
I think what you're offering with this video is truly valuable, and I say so in particular because of our current context in time. English language media has had a series of oversaturated gluts of Saddam indictments on repeat in the past, and in such a context a documentary like this would address real facts but in an environment where their meaning as political intervention would be limited and (for example in the run up to the 2003 invasion) potentially distracting. Today, particularly for a younger and more politically engaged audience, circumstances are different, and I admire how you recognize that. Today the most strident social media-based discourse on recent and historical violence in Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Yemen etcetera has an issue that pervaded US dialogue to disastrous effect preceding and during the Iraq War: the trappings of ethics used to cloak a primally-motivated good-guy against bad-guy form of tribalism. The magnitude of the impact of netizens extolling Assad, Saddam, or their Islamist counterparts elsewhere is obviously not comparable with that of the US intelligence and political establishments' manic convulsions, at least I don't see how anyone taking themselves seriously could compare them. Still toxicity in political discourse undercuts its efficacy and alienates us all. In the same way Saddam's disgusting cruelty impacted Iraq both through the culture of internal state repression and by reflection through external actors and their Saddam-contingent choices, we can expect historical cults of personality and selective ethics in general to hurt the dialogue of history/politics/intergroup relations both as a toxic culture and through its reflections produced when such toxicity is seen by free-agents in the external political space. Sometimes the most searing counterargument to a serious political movement can be listening to its most vocal proponents. This is always such a tragic shame. Again I appreciate this video as an intervention against partisan apologism for a creature who is increasingly recast as a solution to injustice. I trust in your intentions because of your willingness to challenge hypocrisy, but to be honest if you'd asked me in advance about whether a video called "How Saddam impoverished Iraq" were necessary I'd be like, "nah man the English language audience doesn't need to hate on Saddam more, once you recognize evil as evil further litigation against it mostly risks the exclusion of wider understanding". Reading your comments I see how wrong I would have been. Apparently an upsettingly large contingent of the internet only has the mental bandwidth to process the existence of one bad-guy. I find it impossible to blame those who have had their dreams and safety, loved ones or life ripped from them by violence if they see the world in black and white. At the same time even if I tried I couldn't smother my shame in those who pantomime political perspectives that emerge from trauma like the pro-Saddam revival, in spite of living privileged lives like my own. Hopefully this video will help detoxify our culture of dialogue. All the best.
@mogh2603
13 күн бұрын
You purposefully didn't mention that Kuwait was stealing Iraqi oil in 1989-1990, and Saddam negotiated with them for more than one year before invading.
@oneshothunter9877
10 күн бұрын
But the real reason for the invasion was that, that Quwait wanted their money back. The money that Saddam borrowed to invade another neighbor, Iran.
@abinashbehera9184
Ай бұрын
True life is how people remember u after u...
@IranicEdits
5 күн бұрын
My dad as an Iran Iraq war veteran and he told me how Iraqi soldiers buried Iranians alive underground if captured, he also saw Iraqis throw Iranians into waters alive so they would drown. (Sorry for bad English)
@try2justbe
Ай бұрын
Saddam and the Baath party nationalised the Iraqi oil.
@Matt_The_Hugenot
Ай бұрын
Iraq wasn't stable under the Ottomans, it spent decades effectively independent under Georgian Mamluks then under several more under direct Ottoman rule. The British mandate didn't have entirely unnatural borders they corresponded roughly to theboundaries of the three Ottoman vilayet Thad had usually been considered together. The British administration was incompetent as was true across Asia from the Mediterranean to Burma. The idea of handing the country over to a monarchy drawn from a small segment of the population was a particularly bad one. The Baathist coup produced another unrepresentative regime but one important factor was missed in the video and that's US failure to mens bridges with Iran. From 82 onwards Saddam was only able to fight the Iran-Iraq war because of US assistance funneled through other countries like Britain and and Italy plus arms dealers to which America turned a blind eye. The US also gave Saddam diplomatic cover for its use of chemical weapons and didn't do anything about the USS Stark incident. Saddam seemed to believe that once The US had supported him they always would and that turned out to be a grave error
@MuhammedAL-Chad-nz4jx
13 күн бұрын
Sunnis Are The Majority In Iraq. shias Are A Minority. They're Not A "small segment"...
@mogh2603
11 күн бұрын
@@Matt_The_Hugenot it seems you didn't hear about Iran Contra? USA also sent arms to Iran and allowed it to get spare parts for its American-made aircraft.
@mogh2603
11 күн бұрын
@@MuhammedAL-Chad-nz4jx true, if you add Kurds the Sunnis are majority definitely , but among Arabs ; Shiites are either equal or have a small majority to Sunnis
@MuhammedAL-Chad-nz4jx
11 күн бұрын
@@mogh2603Yes. A Small And A Very Diminishing "majority" Also, Basra Used To Be Sunni Before The Massacres That Happened After 2003. Will Be Sunni Again...
@AllaahuAkbar60
2 күн бұрын
Fajr Zuhr Asar Maghrib Isha and Witr Namaz, Dua Qunoot ♥❤👌 Establish regular Namaz and Pay ZAKAT..
@a7wdx
24 күн бұрын
Saddam Hussein from his beginning of his political career was treacherous always betrayed his comrades to achieve his rank as the dictator. He tortured and imprisoned his political opponents and many innocents, the videos are online showing how innocents are beaten and tortured cruelly. His war against Iran crippled the economy and saw the loss of over one million Iraqis die fighting for him. He used chemical weapons against the Kurds killing thousands and against the Iranian when they managed to push back Iraq at the end of the war. His impulsive behavior continued when he invaded Kuwait where every family there lost a member; there are countless records of executions in broad daylight and war crimes of this war and the destruction of oil fields which caused one of the most catastrophic environmental disasters in the middle east. Let alone his son who tortured football players for losing matches and raped many women in universities and night clubs. This man is no hero. People turn a blind eye to all of his crimes just because Iraq was better off with him than the mess that was left after his downfall.
@stigmist
20 күн бұрын
Bro we have the same views glad I'm not the only one 👍🏻
@mogh2603
13 күн бұрын
From where did you copy this article?
@a7wdx
13 күн бұрын
@@mogh2603 This was my own writing.
@AliAli-nr5uz
Ай бұрын
تمضرط شبعنا منه .... المهم هو تبرءة أمريكا من دمار العراق .
@MuhammedAL-Chad-nz4jx
13 күн бұрын
المشكلة قناة إسلامية...
@michaelowino228
Ай бұрын
Good video.
@socialmedia5534
Ай бұрын
People forget the impact Iran had on Iraq. Many Iraqis despise Iran and the Ayotollah
@موسى_7
Ай бұрын
Many Iraqis are atheists and communists. Doesn't make them right.
@WoodsLesnik
Ай бұрын
Its best to say, Autocrats usually end up driving their countries to the ground.
@AllaahuAkbar60
Ай бұрын
Fajr Zuhr Asar Maghrib Isha and Witr Namaz, Dua Qunoot ♥❤👌
@barracuda6900
Ай бұрын
And the Iranians always had a much more powerful navy than Iraq. So Saddam probably wasn't going to be taking control of the Persian Gulf in the Iran-Iraq War.
@keananruiters9373
25 күн бұрын
Yes correct. But even though the Iraq/Iran war is regarded as a stalemate, Iraq had way more successes than Iran during that decade long war and by 1990 Iraq's military was also larger and more powerful than Iran's military
@barracuda6900
24 күн бұрын
@@keananruiters9373tactical successes, yes. But Saddam failed to achieve any of his war aims (stop the Islamic Revolution in Iran, contain Iranian influence, gain control of Khuzestan and the Shaat-al-Arab waterway). Yes, the Iraqis were able to prevent a retaliatory Iranian invasion and takeover of Iraq (temporarily - Iraq is pretty much in Tehran's sphere of influence right now). But that was at a massive cost and left Iraq basically bankrupt. They couldn't keep paying for that enormous military of theirs. Hence the reason why Saddam ended up invading Kuwait, to get the oil money to pay his massive debts (which he was primarily responsible for racking up). So Iraq's 'victory' in the '80s war with Iran was a very hollow one. And like I said, it wouldn't last. Saddam brought his country into conflict with the west, his regime got invaded and collapsed - and then Iran and its proxies pretty much filled the power vacuum.
@keananruiters9373
24 күн бұрын
@@barracuda6900 Agreed! But he did stop Iran's influence big time. Iran was nowhere near as powerful and influential as it is now when Saddam was still in charge of Iraq. That's why a lot of the war cheerleaders in Washington and London at the time now all concede that getting rid of him was a mistake, especially learning that he actually wanted to join them in containing terrorist groups after 9/11. And the with regards to Iran, their main objective was to get rid of Saddam and the Ba'ath party in Iraq. Not only did they not get even close to getting rid of him and the party, but like I said by 1990, Hussein had built up the largest and most powerful military in the middle East with the exception of the Israeli military.
@MuhammedAL-Chad-nz4jx
13 күн бұрын
@@barracuda6900Saddam Did Contain The Failed iranian Revolution. What Are You Talking About? 😂😂😂
@MuhammedAL-Chad-nz4jx
13 күн бұрын
@@barracuda6900iran Lost Their Entire Army Trying To Control A Country With A Fraction Of Its Population...😂😂😂
@TheMap1997
Ай бұрын
I love your video. But the prejudice is strong with this one. Iraq has the highest standard of living in the middle east back then. Until the gulf war and the sanctions afterwards destroyed it
@HikmaHistory
Ай бұрын
Gulf War & sanctions did huge damage, but let's not forget the Iran-Iraq War before that which left Iraq with hundreds of billions of dollars in debt. Not to mention, it was Saddam's decision to invade Kuwait that invited the Gulf War.
@jf3457
Ай бұрын
Ppl like to forget the Iraq-Iran war, which was a 100% Sadam creation and sent the country to Stone Age. It was not the US.
@HistoryOfRevolutions
Ай бұрын
Define "standard of living". When your relatives randomly disappear and When you are constantly being spied on is that a high "standard of living"? Who cares about justice when there are good roads right?
@warriorsaddamx
Ай бұрын
@@HikmaHistorybut you need to ask yourself why did saddam invade kuwait , was it because the kuwaitis were digging up Iraqi oil from underground or was it to preserve Iraqi sovereignty? 🇮🇶🇮🇶🇮🇶
@warriorsaddamx
Ай бұрын
@@HistoryOfRevolutionswomen were free to do what they wanted, religious freedom noone was killing each other no terrorists , Iraq was a major league nation 🇮🇶🇮🇶🇮🇶
@akoli6027
Ай бұрын
This is a horrible video. Lost respect for your content
@HikmaHistory
Ай бұрын
Interesting, how come?
@Flammenhagel
22 күн бұрын
Agreed.
@GigaFloyd
Ай бұрын
@HikmaHistory i thought you tended to stay impartial?
@HikmaHistory
Ай бұрын
I think 21 mins of the video is pretty impartial, nah? It's only really at the end, 'His Legacy' section, where I give my opinion.
@saifmadni12
Ай бұрын
Brilliant video
@HashiramaSenyu
Ай бұрын
0:18 is this guy Shashi Tharoor talking with saddam?
@Infinity_official72
18 күн бұрын
Sochn wali baat hai
@Infinity_official72
18 күн бұрын
Saddam Hussein came to India in 1979 at Indira Gandhi's time so may be
@39_IRAQI
14 күн бұрын
اصبح العراق مكان للمجرمين والارهابيين من بعده
@nazmulshihab7613
12 күн бұрын
My late father loved him He always updated the news during saddams execution Now we've overthrown dictator hasina But I had immense respect for saddam like my father Let's build our country 🇧🇩🇮🇶❤
@Fulcrum-Edits
Ай бұрын
Can you do Hafiz Al Assad next?
@mustafaali3333-q1m
Ай бұрын
Hafiz built Syria
@user-lq5yx1ke5k
Ай бұрын
@@mustafaali3333-q1mand his son destroyed it
@hydra8845
Ай бұрын
@@user-lq5yx1ke5kno rebels and America did
@HikmaHistory
Ай бұрын
Decent idea!
@Fulcrum-Edits
Ай бұрын
@@HikmaHistory thank you soo much 😁
@ChiChiLand299
Ай бұрын
Excellent video, the nation's biggest problem is that there's still such a big divided amongst religious tensions ethnic tensions and tribalism to the fact that they don't trust each other enough in order to create a functioning government. Yes Saddam could do that but only because he basically forced people to get along they as a society has just not developed enough yet but they can get along with each other without trying to monopolize power or trying to take it from those who have it.
@Tardvark
Ай бұрын
Already wrong at the strat Major right was given to the land borders
@Naji1_8
11 күн бұрын
No details are mentioned on every negative point! Shameful
@mogh2603
13 күн бұрын
Saddam defended Iraq against theocratic Iranian regime, and tried to reclaim Iraqi rights in Kuwait.
@Averrois.
11 күн бұрын
BS
@MuhammedAL-Chad-nz4jx
11 күн бұрын
@@Averrois.Cry...
@samelmourad515
3 сағат бұрын
Well in Hindsight, Saddams toppling turned out to be so much worse for the country.
@MA-ct9ms
5 күн бұрын
He was a disaster for the country
@yokobono3324
Ай бұрын
For anyone who is interested, check out the book "Republic of Fear" by Kanan Makiya. There is a more recent version, but the 1989 one is still very insightful. The forced disappearances of citizens would occur over things as simple as criticizing the clothes Saddam wore in televised addresses. If the body was returned, and that's a big if, the crude box it was in would be sealed with notices that opening the crude casket was a crime that carried the death penalty. So you were forced to accept the "suicide" of your husband or wife, son or daughter, lest you become another "suicide" victim. Really sick stuff.
@adamhauskins6407
Ай бұрын
All great men are complicated
@tammijatti9164
Ай бұрын
Thanks!
@HikmaHistory
Ай бұрын
My pleasure!
@matthewfisher-sp5fq
13 сағат бұрын
I wonder what happened to Al Bakr.
@dindin8753
Ай бұрын
20:00 correction its more likely for money rather than revenge
@yaredo895
Ай бұрын
This guy hates Saddam
@memorymeme51
Ай бұрын
Yup, Saddam was terrible
@jesusgonzalez-acton8045
Ай бұрын
@@memorymeme51Bush and Blair were much worse.
@Jacdunn
Ай бұрын
@@jesusgonzalez-acton8045 history's worst gay couple are worse then saddam?
@kobemop
Ай бұрын
Saddam wasn't entirely a bad guy. I think the guy is just anti-socialist (like the case of the Muslim Brotherhood).
@kobemop
Ай бұрын
@@jesusgonzalez-acton8045 A low bar, but yes. Western leaders along with other things destroyed the Middle-East and North Africa.
@binyameenlevroke6243
6 күн бұрын
He was the Josef Stalin of Iraq
@try2justbe
Ай бұрын
This is misinformation
@yaredo895
Ай бұрын
his videos about saddam are biased
@HikmaHistory
Ай бұрын
How so?
@QwertAsdfg-ih1ow
Ай бұрын
Western propaganda..
@MuhammedAL-Chad-nz4jx
13 күн бұрын
@@HikmaHistoryDon't Talk About Arab History Again...❤
@yusef-facts
4 күн бұрын
@@HikmaHistorynever talk about Arab history again ☺️ okay
@MuhammedAL-Chad-nz4jx
13 күн бұрын
17:21 It Wasn't Even A "debt". It Was A Gift...
@Alan_GA
Ай бұрын
Obviously Saddam as leader should take full responsibility for the deterioration of almost all aspects of Iraqi socioeconomic life. But to seemingly ignore the role America & it's lackeys played in the slow destruction of Iraq, is to me unfair. Take for example the issue of UN sanctioned weapons inspectors. The whole matter was basically a wild goose chase formulated by America as one of the key reasons justifying the harsh raft of sanctions. Which hurt ordinary Iraqi's than the elites.
@HikmaHistory
Ай бұрын
Couldn't agree more. The sanctions were inhumane to put it mildly. This video however, intends to be a biography of Saddam; so the emphasis was on him.
@MuhammedAL-Chad-nz4jx
13 күн бұрын
How's Saddam Responsible For The crimes Of iran?
@algorithm1635
8 күн бұрын
Saddem the opinion of his people about him, you find half of Iraqi people with him, they like him as a leader , and half of them against him, this is inside Iraq - and for us the others arabs countries, the majority of us we like him, total point view we like him like a leader -This is for you from a Tunisian here speaks with you from Tunisia here, give you how it look the things if you ask in this region if you ask
@ayankhaznawi
Ай бұрын
Never show serix this video 🤫 🤫
@mathewreji6657
Ай бұрын
Who is that?
@MuhammedAL-Chad-nz4jx
13 күн бұрын
17:37 4 Hours Actually...
@greg_4201
Ай бұрын
hero
@davidkartwright9003
29 күн бұрын
There's little "Hikmeh" in asking the question Hero or Villain. He is pure evil.
@THEGREATAFFILIATOR
15 күн бұрын
Neither
@AllaahuAkbar60
Ай бұрын
Establish regular Namaz and Pay ZAKAT..
@mogh2603
13 күн бұрын
In the Arab world we believe israel is the core cause of most tragedies in the region , it is the anomaly that keeps distorting our lives throughout the middle-east, Saddam was the first to attack and humiliate israel, this is THE origin of emotional attachment to him in the Arab world.
@user-lw3zm8gu5m
Ай бұрын
Saddam was a dictator And this is true But those who paid the price for the Gulf War, the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, and the American invasion of Iraq were other than the Iraqi people themselves You said Saddam was tried for his crimes Why were the soldiers who killed Iraqi civilians not tried, and why was Bush not tried for his crimes for lying to his people and killing only 1 million Iraqi citizens? Bush is still suffering from the Iraqi invasion, and this memory will accompany him throughout his life
@MuhammedAL-Chad-nz4jx
13 күн бұрын
bush Doesn't Care About Dead Muslim Childre. If The Iraq War Didn't Cost america 85K-185K Soldiers They Wouldn't Even Care About It...
@kevinBaconism162
Ай бұрын
Desert Storm, the sanctions (specifically the 1996 death sanctions that killed 100,000 children) are why Iraq was poor.
@try2justbe
Ай бұрын
500,000 hun not 100,000!
@MateoMPM
Ай бұрын
No, Iraq became poor because Saddam decided to fight an 8-year war against Iran That left Iraq with a 60 billion dollar debt
@kevinBaconism162
Ай бұрын
@@try2justbe i usually use low estimates. Low estimate is a minimum of 100,000 dead, high estimate is 500,000, the truth is probably somewhere in the middle. George Bush Senior destroyed 95% of the electricity grid in iraq, then him and Bill Clinton starved the Iraqis and denied them medicine, among other things.
@موسى_7
Ай бұрын
@@kevinBaconism162 Guess how Bush did it? He did it because of the Iran-Iraq war leading to the invasion of Kuwait. If Kuwait wasn't invaded, Bush couldn't have justified his crimes against Iraq. If Iran was left alone, Kuwait would have been safe.
@juliankraus1011
Ай бұрын
Studies have shown that the patterns of excess mortality (specially infant mortality) were already present prior to the Gulf War, as a result of the devastation in the aftermath of the Iraq-Iran War. The sanctions were no doubt detrimental to the recovery of the country, but they didn't cause the crisis at all.
@apkidlafirm522
Ай бұрын
just call me your old pal saddam hussein hey relax fella you need a rest guy
@Ali-g1z1w
10 күн бұрын
He is Villain
@dmc7890
15 күн бұрын
Ask thousands of kurdish children being taken of their villages to the deserts to he buried alive....
@MuhammedAL-Chad-nz4jx
13 күн бұрын
It Real In Your Mind...😂😂😂
@MuhammedAL-Chad-nz4jx
13 күн бұрын
Womp Womp...
@dmc7890
13 күн бұрын
@@MuhammedAL-Chad-nz4jx bro is in denial 💀
@RICO_SUAVE_86_
11 күн бұрын
4:05 - 4:16
@abir2019
Ай бұрын
Like Iraq's doing any better now.
@runningcommentary2125
Ай бұрын
Um... but it is though. No Saddam, no ISIS, no American occupation.
@QwertAsdfg-ih1ow
Ай бұрын
@@runningcommentary2125They still have USA troops, there are still daeh cells..
@countdowntorevolution9986
Ай бұрын
pre - video thoughts: hero?? HERO?????
@HikmaHistory
Ай бұрын
Post-video thoughts???
@MuhammedAL-Chad-nz4jx
13 күн бұрын
Yes Hero. Cope...
@MilutinVasic
9 күн бұрын
Saddam was A LEGEND and just like Gaddafi, Sankara, Lumumba, Ben Ali, Arafat, Mubarak, Mullah Omar (founder of Taliban), Chavez and me, he was a tragic figure! Without him, Iraq is dying!
@mikepete3013
Ай бұрын
Clumsily is a kind understatement. Lol
@HikmaHistory
Ай бұрын
Haha forreal
@Nuh-zd5py
7 күн бұрын
الله يرحمك يا صدام حسين
@AllaahuAkbar60
Ай бұрын
Whenever you go to the Masjid please put some coins in the Zakat Box 📦 Allah loves Zakat Alhamdulila 📦❤😊😊😊
@duckbizniz663
Ай бұрын
Appreciate your summary of Saddam Hussein and Iraq. I do not know how much of your report is accurate and how much of it are lies. Assuming you report is accurate then it demonstrates the challenge of Middle Eastern states in the modern era. The obvious truth is that the modern world is dominated by the truly industrialized countries. These modern industrialized nations are the most developed in the world. They are economically, socially, and politically developed when compared to the rest of the countries in the world like India, China, Iran, Iraq, ... I hear the narrator claiming Saddam modernized and Iraq prosperous by selling petroleum to the rest of the world. The truth is Iraq is a backward, pre-industrial country. Saddam's modernization was imported from the industrialized countries (the US, the UK, France, Germany, Japan, ...) to raise the standard of living for the Iraqi people. The industrialized countries created the modern machines. Saddam is a product of a pre-industrial, backward society. He only understands absolute power. He understands that his power comes from his military. He understands that he can use his military to take wealth from other people. Today it is the industrialized countries (the US, the UK, France, Germany, ...) who really control the world. It is the industrialized countries who can impose their interests on the rest of the world. Israel exists because the industrialized countries of NATO want Israel to exist. The four Arab and Muslim countries (Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria) that surround and attack Israel were defeated in 5 days. Can you imagine that? A tiny, little country like Israel can defeat 4 of its neighbors in 5 days. That is not the power of Israel. That is the industrialized power of the US, the UK, France, Germany, and other NATO allies. The existence of Israel and the defeat of its 4 Muslim neighbors in 5 days demonstrate the dominance of the industrialized countries of Western Civilization. Saddam can attack Iran or Kuwait, but that is all Iraq can do. The world has changed very little since WWII. The developed, industrialized countries of today are the same countries as before WWII with the addition of South Korea. The remaining countries are still backward. The rest of the world will remain under-developed until they can create a modern society. A democratic society with a republican form of government. A society governed by the Rule of Law and protection of individual rights and property.
@sandman_slim4301
Ай бұрын
Leave it to a westerner to comment that Saddam is some how misunderstood 😂
@alisedighi7833
Ай бұрын
True. It’s always some 20 something from America or Canada defending the Iranian regime or Saddam because they read a couple of articles or watched a couple of KZitem clips.
@MuhammedAL-Chad-nz4jx
13 күн бұрын
@@alisedighi7833Saddam Was A Saint...
@MuhammedAL-Chad-nz4jx
13 күн бұрын
Cry Louder. Saddam Was A Saint...
@Flammenhagel
22 күн бұрын
Saddam Hussein is a hero because Muqtada Alsadr didn't take power, if he did, one would be justified in hating Saddam; this is the nuanced Hegelian view.
@HikmaHistory
22 күн бұрын
What does that even mean?
@Flammenhagel
13 күн бұрын
@@HikmaHistory 🥄Baathism is the thesis, Shi'ism would be the antithesis
@bigsarge2085
Ай бұрын
✌
@CARL_093
Ай бұрын
sae aljbrab company in Baghdad iraq my grandpa used to work there in late 1970s to late 80s as a munchie operator my mom always telling stories from my grandpa he brought school supplies all had face of saddam yes he did good but his advisers put him in decisions positions that becomes saddams end his advisers blinded saddam of the reality wtf really going or whats happening outside iraq by the international community ......during the op desert storm there house in there compound sharked from america and iraqi bombings and when america started op desert storm my grandpas employer send them home all of them and pay them the full contract event its not yet finished ...
@ruggedindividual708
Ай бұрын
Do you think Saddam was good for the region ?
@ahmeddon3260
27 күн бұрын
Yes
@DeadManSinging1
16 күн бұрын
Well, when men like him and Gaddafi were in power, they actively persecuted militia groups, women could wear miniskirts and go to university, and the countries weren't unending warzones filled with different factions all vying for power. So, yes.
@ruggedindividual708
16 күн бұрын
@@DeadManSinging1 you’ve included ‘women could wear miniskirts’ as if it’s such a great thing. I’ve never understood the west’s fetish with women showing skin. As if showing more skin directly equates to ‘progression’ and ‘development’.
@MuhammedAL-Chad-nz4jx
13 күн бұрын
What "region"? It's Called Arabia And It's For Arabs Only...
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