#saddam hussein

[imgoinggoblinmode]

#196 #shitpost #shitposting #lol #funny #saddam hussein

[winterthebeau]

#196 #shitposting #r/196 #r196 #saddam hussein #meme #infographic

[deadpresidents]

The reasons Mr. Hussein failed to clarify that he had no weapons of mass destruction in the run-up to 2003 are embedded in his tragic, decades-long conflict with Washington: his furtive, mistrustful collaboration with the C.I.A. during the 1980s; the Gulf War of 1990 and 1991; the U.N.-backed struggle over Iraqi disarmament that followed; and the climactic confrontation after Sept. 11. Shortly after the Gulf War, he secretly ordered the destruction of his chemical and biological arms, as Washington and the United Nations had demanded. He hoped this action would allow Iraq to pass disarmament inspections, but he covered up what he had done and lied repeatedly to inspectors. He did not tell the truth to his own generals, fearing that he might invite internal or external attacks. His decision to comply with international demands but to lie about it to U.N. inspectors defied Western logic. But Mr. Hussein would not submit to public humiliation, not least because he thought it wouldn’t work. “One of the mistakes some people make is that when the enemy has decided to hurt you, you believe there is a chance to decrease the harm by acting in a certain way,” he told a colleague. In fact, he said, “The harm won’t be less.” Mr. Hussein believed the C.I.A. was all but omniscient, and so, particularly after Sept. 11, when Mr. Bush accused him of hiding weapons of mass destruction, he assumed that the agency already knew that he had no dangerous weapons and that the accusations were just a pretense to invade. A C.I.A. capable of making an analytical mistake on the scale of its miss about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction was not part of his worldview.

--Steve Coll, "Why Authoritarians Like Saddam Hussein Confound U.S. Presidents," New York Times, Feb. 28, 2024.

#Saddam Hussein #Steve Coll #New York Times #Iraq War #U.S. Invasion of Iraq #CIA

[gougerre]

#saddam hussein

[teathattast]

#oceangate #oceangate memes #saddam hussein

[art-i-choked]

satan and sadam doodle

#south park satan #south park fanart #south park #saddam hussein

[radiofreederry]

#saddam hussein

[correctopinionhaver]

#tunnels #chabad #new york #saddam hussein #top

[the-lumpfish-king]

Now that I've been on tumblr for a little while I think it's time to bring over my third greatest creation, Saddam Hussein Jenga.

#196 #sam o'nella #saddam hussein

[dougielombax]

Also leaving this here since today is the Remembrance Day for victims of the Anfal genocide.

Where Saddam Hussein (with the help of the MEK) and his cronies slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Kurds and Assyrians (and other minorities) in Iraq near the end of the Iran-Iraq war.

I posted about it earlier this year not too long ago.

Feel free to reblog.

#dougie rambles #news #political crap #middle east #mesopotamia #iraq #assyria #bethnahrin #kurdistan #kurds #assyrians #Assyrian people #genocide #anfal genocide #forgotten history #remembrance #commemoration #anniversary #Iran-Iraq war #saddam hussein #war crimes #terrorism #reblog this #reblog the shit out of this #feel free to reblog

[epilepticsaints]

#saddam hussein

[metalheadsforblacklivesmatter]

Mandatory post I always make on 9/11

9/11 was caused by Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda. We found that out 2 weeks after the attack.

But Bush blamed Sadam Hussain and 4,700 US soldiers and hundreds of thousands Iraq civilians died in the attempt to kill him. When people started asking questions they switched up their story of "Oh its because they have weapons of mass destruction" which they also did not have that all of those deaths was probably over oil.

And Hussein's rise to power as well as Al-Qaeda's rise to power were both directly caused by direct US interference in the 1950s

The United States sold Al-Qaeda weapons and overthrew the previous government.

And overthrowing the Iranian government was also over oil.

-fae

#9-11 #twin towers #iran #al-Qaeda #osama bin laden #saddam hussein

[shiftythrifting]

a Saddam Hussein voodoo doll

found at a flea market in Branson MO

#shiftythrifting #thrifting #submission #desert storm shit #saddam hussein #dolls #war shit

[evengirlierballs]

Saddam Husein

#saddam hussein #? #more like #Saddle Horsein #ayooo

[tfwamirite]

#submarine #titanic submarine #titanic #oh god send help #please #new memes #saddam hussein

[sgtgrunt0331-3]

On April 9, 2003, U.S. Marine Cpl. Edward Chin of 3rd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, covers the face of a statue of Saddam Hussein with an American flag before toppling the statue in Baghdad, Iraq

(Photo courtesy of Peter Nicholls)

#usmc #us marines #oif #operation iraqi freedom #saddam hussein #statue #baghdad #military #history