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'''Saddam Hussein''' (April 28, 1937 - December 30, 2006) was the president of Iraq from 1979-2003. He is best known for his invasion of Kuwait for more oil and gassing his country. He is one of the best known villains of history today along with [[Osama Bin Laden]] and [[Adolf Hitler]]. | '''Saddam Hussein''' (April 28, 1937 - December 30, 2006) was the president of Iraq from 1979-2003. He is best known for his invasion of Kuwait for more oil and gassing his country. He is one of the best known villains of history today along with [[Osama Bin Laden]] and [[Adolf Hitler]]. | ||
==Villany== | ==Villany== | ||
Born Saddam which in Arabic means "one who confronts" | Born Saddam which in Arabic means "one who confronts", he never knew his father who died just 6 months after he was born, and his 13 year old brother soon died of cancer. He then lived with his uncle until he was three, and his mother remarried. Saddam got three brothers out of this marriage, and a father, but he treated him horribly (Saddam's father in law), and he ran away to his uncle in Baghdad again. Later he got an education at a nationalistic Iraqi high school, and went to law school for three years after which he dropped out to join the pan-Arab Ba'ath Party, which his uncle supported. | ||
Apparently he was a secondary school teacher at this time. | Apparently he was a secondary school teacher at this time. Later socialists and progressives were trying to rise to power, in fact in Egypt a pan-Arab had already gotten control. Now in Egypt, Libya, and Iraq monarchies were overthrown. In Iraq the military leader Abd al-Karim Qasim overthrew the government, and created himself a dictatorship. Saddam Hussein was part of the plot to assassinate him (which failed) due to the fact that his party disagreed with his view. | ||
Saddam had 2 sons born in the 1960's, [http://real-life-villains.wikia.com/wiki/Uday_Hussein Uday] and [http://real-life-villains.wikia.com/wiki/Qusay_Hussein Qusay], who were both killed in an airstrike in 2003. | Saddam had 2 sons born in the 1960's, [http://real-life-villains.wikia.com/wiki/Uday_Hussein Uday] and [http://real-life-villains.wikia.com/wiki/Qusay_Hussein Qusay], who were both killed in an airstrike in 2003. |