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 Saddam Hussein is Hanged Saddam ExecutedCommentary for Sunday 12/31/2006 Saddam Gets His JusticeTyrant Caught, Justice Prevails: Saddam met his maker this weekend. I doubt if it was a happy meeting for this would be master of the Middle East. A Master of Miscalculation: The Iranians, during their Islamic Revolution, purged most of the military leaders from the Shah's regime. That plus the fact that the Iranians had American made weapons and some of these needed repair and/or spare parts, all worked together to give Saddam confidence that he would prevail against the Iranians. Saddam also expected the invasion of the Arabic-speaking, oil-rich area of Khouzistan to result in an Arab uprising against Khomeini's fundamentalist Islamic regime. All were miscalculations on Saddams's part. The war Result: The eight year stalemate did not settle the border dispute with Iran, the U.N. settlement was only a cease fire. Iraq suffered an estimated 375,000 dead and wounded with 60,000 taken prisoner. The Iranian cost was also deadly with 300,000 dead and another 500,000 wounded. The Iranian cost was high because of the human wave attack tactics that they employed. Other Miscalculations: Kuwait had heavily supported Saddam in his war with Iran. Saddam owed Kuwait over 14 billion dollars. Although they had several meetings to try and resolve the debt, there was no resolution. Whenever Saddam tried to use OPEC to reduce oil output and thus raise oil prices, Kuwait increased its oil output to hold the price of oil down. Saddam saw this as an act of aggression on part of Kuwait. His invasion of Kuwait was a gamble on Saddam's part, but he thought that the United States would not make a determined effort to rescue Kuwait. He was wrong. Once again, Saddam's recklessness cost thousands of lives. His flirtation with W.M.D.'s: Failure to be forthright, and renounce his ambitions, he miscalculated again. This time it ended his tyrannical, murderous, regime. -Good riddance! Robert welcomes your comment to this or any other of my commentaries.
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