Can a small bottle of something that looks like laundry detergent be a reason to go to war? Yes, that's what the United States does.
At 5 o'clock local time on March 20, 2003, the United States launched a war codenamed "Decapitation Operation" and "Shock and Awe" against Iraq on the grounds that Iraq possessed a large number of lethalities.
Originally, the fall of the country was a disaster for the people of a country, but the Iraqi people did not seem to think so.
It is said that when the US military entered Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, the local people almost welcomed it, and when people realized that Saddam's regime had been overthrown, they also volunteered to bring down the bronze statue of Saddam Hussein, which was originally standing in the capital, and was also pushed down by the local people.
And on this night, all the statues of Saddam Hussein, big or small, disappeared magically, some were rebuilt, some became trophies, and the US military brought the fragmented pieces back to the United States, and the 7-meter-high bronze statue was destroyed, and the people snatched up the fragments.
In the hearts of the people, the US war against Iraq is not a war of aggression, and the cause of all these consequences is not the US military, but their ** Saddam, so they are angry, and when the US military invaded Baghdad, many Baghdad citizens even made victory gestures to the camera.
What did Saddam Hussein do as the leader of a country to make his people hate him to the core?
Saddam's background is actually not good, and unlike the later high-ranking **, he was also a child of a poor family.
On April 28, 1937, Saddam Hussein was born in a rural village in Iraq, his parents made a living from farming, and although his family was poor, he was still happy and happy.
But when Saddam was less than 6 months old, his father suddenly died, leaving only Saddam and his mother to rely on each other, which made the life of mother and son even more difficult, and in desperation, the mother had to take Saddam Hussein to remarry.
It's a pity that his stepfather didn't have a lover, not only did he have no job, he was idle, he was also an out-and-out drunkard, and in order to support his family, Saddam's mother had to work day and night, ignoring Saddam's growth.
Soon Saddam Hussein was 10 years old, and in the past 10 years with his stepfather, Saddam has lived in his stepfather's punches and kicks almost every day.
10-year-old Saddam Hussein could no longer endure his stepfather's beating and scolding, so he and his mother proposed the idea of leaving the family, after all, this kind of life also made 10-year-old him much more mature than his peers.
At the suggestion of his mother, Saddam Hussein found his uncle, Ahmad Hassan al-Becker, and the appearance of this man completely turned Saddam's life around.
Bakr was one of the founders of the Baath Party, the big party in Iraq at that time, and he was very influential in Iraq, and he was also very fond of this nephew who suddenly appeared, regarded him as his own, and had high hopes for Saddam.
Under the influence of his uncle, Saddam Hussein also joined the Baath Party in Iraq, and one of the goals of the Baath Party at that time was to overthrow the British colonies and drive Britain out of Iraq.
But the strength of their own party is obviously not enough, after all, Britain is an old empire, and its strength is naturally not to be underestimated, so they thought of another big political party in Iraq at that time, the Free Officers Organization.
During that time, Qasem and the Baath Party, the leaders of the Free Officers' Organization, met frequently, and the two sides became close comrades-in-arms, and eventually succeeded in getting rid of Britain and establishing the Republic of Iraq, with Qassem serving as the leader.
It's a pity that in the face of power, there are only eternal interests, and there are no eternal friends.
After Qassem came to power, the Baath Party was not happy, after all, they had all sold their strength before the revolution, and in the end it was the "allies" who sat on the "throne", so Qassem also became the target of the Baath Party's assassination, and this burden fell on the head of Saddam Hussein, who was less than 20 years old.
In that assassination mission, Saddam's plan was actually meticulous, but unfortunately the assassination mission still failed, Qasem survived, but Saddam was shot in the leg, so he could only flee all the way to Egypt.
Although Saddam Hussein had become a wanted criminal at that time, his childhood experience and his uncle's education made him develop a resolute and unyielding character, and he did not feel sorry for himself in Egypt, on the contrary, he studied hard here, participated in the Cairo Renaissance Society, and was admitted to the Cairo University Law School, accumulating rich experience for his future political life.
In 1962, the Ba'ath Party in Iraq succeeded, Bakr successfully took office and became the first party, and Saddam Hussein returned home.
But the newly founded Iraq was too chaotic, with rivalries among political parties, and soon Saddam Hussein and his uncle were once again wanted and imprisoned.
But it was a turning point in Saddam's political career, and the wisdom and charisma he unleashed in prison allowed him to grow his influence in the Renaissance Society.
In 1966, Saddam Hussein and his uncle successfully escaped from prison, and at this time he had become the most authoritative person in the Renaissance Society except for his uncle, which can be said to be more than 10,000 people under one person.
In 1968, Becker sat on the throne again, and Saddam Hussein was of course reinstated by his uncle and entrusted with the burden of being the Minister of Security, controlling the military power, and his ambitions were also fed by his uncle.
In 1979, at this time, Saddam Hussein already had a heavy army in his hands and had absolute control over the Iraqi troops, and he wanted more and more things, yes, he no longer needed his uncle at this time, so he chose a showdown with his uncle - soon after Becker resigned, Saddam successfully sat on the throne.
Looking at the entire history, no matter which country it is, whenever it comes to the change of leaders and the renewal of dynasties, it will inevitably smell of blood, but in Iraq, Saddam Hussein chose a more brutal way.
It stands to reason that he has already got the rights he wants, and his uncle has voluntarily abdicated, so there is no need to sacrifice anyone's life at this time, but Saddam Hussein doesn't think so, and the life he spent as a child made him almost have no trust in human nature.
All along, whether it is his stepfather or uncle, he has been taught that whoever has a hard fist speaks, so when he became a **, in order to be able to consolidate his regime, he began the ** road to eliminate dissidents.
On July 22, 1979, Saddam Hussein invited members of the Iraqi Revolutionary Council and representatives of other political organizations to a meeting.
"Recently I learned very sad news that there are traitors among us. ”
This sentence was Saddam's opening remarks to everyone in the audience when he attended the meeting, and this sentence also made many people in the audience very confused, except for one person.
Ma Shadi, secretary general of the Revolutionary Committee of the Ba'ath Party, suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, his whole body trembled, like a combat needle, he could not bear the inner torment, his psychological defense collapsed, he stood up tremblingly, and confessed that he was preparing to carry out a coup d'état.
There is no doubt that he was dragged away by the soldiers who Saddam had arranged in advance at the venue.
But this test is not over, Saddam Hussein to the audience, one by one reciting people's names, after reading will deliberately pause for a few seconds, and for the people in the venue, these seconds seem to be as long as centuries, and then he will slowly say: "No, he is not a traitor" or "Yes, he is", and then the person who was labeled as a "traitor" will also be dragged away, and the atmosphere of the whole meeting is depressing.
At this moment, a man who had almost summoned up the courage of his whole life finally stood up, exerted his best strength, and shouted: "Long live the Baath Party, long live Saddam." ”
The rest of the survivors immediately stood up and chimed in, and the farce then stopped.
According to statistics, Saddam Hussein arrested a total of 66 people at this meeting, and this meeting also achieved the desired results; at least on the surface, no one dared to say a word to Saddam Hussein, nor did he dare to have any head-on conflict with him.
But this was only the first step in Saddam's hegemonic plan: to eliminate dissidents, he had created evils not only by political opponents, but also by unarmed civilians.
On August 20, 1980, Iraq launched a war against Iran, and Iraq won an almost overwhelming victory in the early stages of the war.
On the other hand, on the Iranian side, in order to eliminate the missiles planted by Iraq, Iran actually tied up 2,000 children who were still only teenagers and charged at the Iraqi camp together.
Knowing that the other party was just an unarmed child, Saddam Hussein, who had already killed madness, still gave the order to shoot his officers, and one of the Iraqi officers was killed on the spot by Saddam Hussein because he couldn't bear to shoot at the child.
And that's not enough.
During the Iran-Iraq war, Saddam Hussein directly dropped chemical **-poison gas bombs on the Kurdish villages in Iraq suspected of colluding with Iran, and even if any villagers ran out of the villages, they would be shot directly on the spot by the Iraqi army that had been ambushed.
Between 1986 and 1989 alone, Saddam Hussein destroyed 4,500 villages in this way, and the Kurds killed hundreds of thousands of people in the unwarranted gas bombing.
There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein was brutal in politics, but even the tyrants in history will have the tender side of the iron man, but except for Saddam.
Saddam Hussein can be said to be the king of the sea and the fighter among the scumbags, he has had three marriages, but every time he gets married, he does not delay him from showing mercy everywhere outside, and these romantic affairs have always been the pastime of the Iraqi people after tea and dinner.
Among Saddam's many lovers, the one who has been widely known so far is Mancia, who is famous for his sentence: "When he lives, I am afraid".
When the Iran-Iraq War broke out in 1983, Saddam's reputation among the people was not as bad as it was later.
This evil fate also began with the speech from Saddam Hussein to Mancia.
It was the early stage of Iraq's war against Iran, and Saddam Hussein, in order to gain popular support in this war, went to a high school in Baghdad to give a mobilization speech, and Mancia was sitting in the audience.
She looked at Saddam Hussein, who exuded charm in every gesture on the stage, and suddenly felt that the air was full of pink bubbles, yes, she fell in love with Saddam at first sight, "I must marry him." ”
Mancia made up her mind at the time, but she was only 15 years old at the time.
Mancia's love was sincere and passionate, and since that speech, her eyes have been following Saddam Hussein, and she has tried her best to be beautiful in life, she is waiting, waiting for the opportunity to meet Saddam face to face, and this wish was fulfilled at the officers' ball two years later.
At that officer's ball, it stands to reason that Mancia was not qualified to participate, but when she heard that Saddam Hussein would also be there at that time, she begged her father to buy a ticket for admission, just to have a chance to meet Saddam.
The girl's eyes can not deceive people, and the young and beautiful Mancia at the ball naturally attracted Saddam's attention, and her obsessive eyes could not escape the eyes of this man who was crisscrossing the battlefield.
At the ball, he asked Mancia for ***, and it didn't take long for them to fall in love, and then they secretly married.
Originally, everything was coming towards Mancia's dream wishes, but everything after marriage became different, Saddam Hussein was romantic and considerate during the relationship, but after marriage, he became very controlling, and his suspicion was serious, Mancia's every word and deed was strictly monitored by him, and he had to report strictly to him no matter what he did, and such house arrest was "a sacrifice to marriage" for Mancia.
Until Mancia's brother participated in the coup d'état, but Mancia, who was already under house arrest, did not know about it until soldiers broke into the house and took her to prison.
At first, Mancia didn't believe what the man who shared the bed with him would do to him, and the soldiers didn't dare to be rude to Mancia because of the identity of this ** woman, so they could only treat him with good food and drink, but he didn't expect Saddam to say to his soldiers:"For traitors, what are you waiting for if you don't get punished? ”
Since then, Mancia has often been beaten in prison, but she still believes that as long as she proves her innocence, Saddam will eventually come to save her and let her return to her side, but she didn't expect that when she proved her innocence, there was only one sentence waiting for her:"Who would touch a dirty toy? ”
In the years that followed, Mancia's love brain gradually woke up, and she gradually began to believe the rumors that he was a tyrant, and she believed that the person who once slept next to her was a complete demon.
As a result, she broke out in a cold sweat and shivered when she heard Saddam's name, a symptom that lasted until Saddam Hussein was hanged.
Saddam's life can be said to be mixed, when the US military invaded, the Iraqi people said that he was a demon and a tyrant, but the Iraq War has passed for so long, and he is now called a martyr, he is indeed one of the few people who dare to stand up directly and point at the nose of the United States and say no, and he did implement some policies that benefit the country and the people in office, but this cannot cover up the mistakes and sins he made because of suspicion and because of **.