Saddam Hussein: The Butcher of Baghdad
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- Опубліковано 6 чер 2018
- He was one of the world’s most notorious and ruthless leaders. Since coming to power in 1979, Saddam used any means necessary to hold onto Iraq including killing anyone who stood in his way. At a young age he was brutalized at home, ran away to his uncles, and quickly became a thug for an extremist political party.
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Again, shame on you.
Biographics Can you do Bill Clinton? LOL
Please do a video about Ayatullah khumeini
Biographics HE SHOULD
HAVE BEEN PUBLICLY CASTRATED.
SADDAM SHOULD HAVE HAD HIS
HANDS, TONGUE & FEET CHOPPED
OFF & FINALLY PUBLICLY DECAPITATED 100% + HIS REMAINS BEING BURNED
@@iam_Emmett3 wouldn't that drop us to his standards
In two days, Iraq went from having the 4th largest army in the world to having the 2nd largest army in Iraq
oof, glad its a free country now
😂😂🤘
Abdirahman Mohamed «free» are you mad?😂😂
Hevar Taeeb i snorted a bit of crack
Abdirahman Mohamed is Iraq is free, so is the DPRK.
The sound would cut out for minutes at a time for me
Same I think that the song was copyrighted so it was re uploaded
Same lol
It's called falling asleep
I think it just feels like minutes and is actually just a few seconds.
Same
Rule number one in not making your child a dictator: don't abuse them
Saddam: "Hey relax, guy!"
Honorable mention: Don't be a dictator with a legacy to begin with.
Ok let's see in 10-20 years
Facts the 2nd rule is disguise ur dictatorship with “democracy” lol
Lies again? Starhub Bob
20 years ago, my brother was one of the marine units sent in. He lost friends he enlisted with there and received brain damage after his vehicle convoy ran into a mine in Fallujah. He’s never been the same and he saw crimes being done to civilians that he’s never repeated stories of to me while he was sober. Whatever the real goal of our military was whether it was petroleum or the Heroin fields; it wasn’t worth it
I was there I know what you are talking about and I remember every second of it
The neo-cons , whose children don’t even serve a day in the military, engineered this war, deceived the American people on WMDs and told people that God wants us to invade Babylonia! They’ll have theirs in the Highest Court on the Last Day
War in general isn’t worth it
Who told him to go there
@@umarc2634serious?
I’m from Iraq, and I’ll tell you Iraq was 10x better with him than it is now.
better with but nightmare to other..there's always an opposite side of white pal...
It actually was 100x better.
@@user-ec8mo1jn4m maybe for you..but the other was total nightmare...he is no different than any other dictator..rise to power by slaughtering and murdering millions of iraqi..even Kurdish too..
With all the public purges and hangings? What if today's President did that in the name of order? Would you agree with him?
@Tommy Lee
Simply, *you can't* :))
It's always amazes me how every single one of these horrible men in history have the same backstory. Mistreated as children, unwanted, and brilliant
True
Don't call trump brilliant
mistreated? downright abused
Neither Hitler or Stalin or Kim jong were brilliant. Benito Mussolini was another not brilliant child. All bonkers
@@willie5958 whatever makes you feel good lmao keep coping.
"Iraqis needed a strong leader" I hate that he was right.
how about a humane person? after all Iraqis are just like the rest of us humans
@@meshlrd1047 they would just get shot by the next ruthless dictator or extremist
@@meshlrd1047 You are what we call a delusional Westerner. You always choose to look at things from an idealistic perspective, when judging others, yet refuse to look at the reality of your own situation. A weak leader/government will be violently overthrown by the next ruthless guy that comes along. You have to have strength if you want to stay in power, even Western governments understand this, that's why Western Governments are the most well funded and well armed militaries in the world.
Completely disarm your Western governments and fill it with "humane" people and see how long it takes for some violent person or organization to take over your countries.
@@deadbutmoving as a westerner i loved this ,spot on
@@deadbutmoving what you're saying is not relevant to Saddam at all , Saddam was a narcissistic criminal and extremely paranoid about everyone around him ,the man killed his own sons-in-law , his sons were living the best life with luxurious cara and houses while the Iraqis were starving , he stole the money of Iraqis and killed anyone who questioned , we were so afraid of him that there was a saying " the walls have ears" because whoever talked badly about Saddam even in private would end up dead , this is not a leader who wanted the best for his country ,this is a criminal whose crimes we're still suffering from today
I remember speaking to the army physician that gave him his physical before he got handed over. He described him as “like that one racist grandpa everybody has.” Made me think about how power in certain hands can have very different outcomes
Just imagine the outcome of giving that power at the beginning of history.
Simon: He gave him his first prized procession
Me: Aww...
Simon: which was a hand gun.
Me: Oh....
@Mr. Scuz lool
Actually, this really does not mean all that much. I realize the guy narrating this is British and their feelings towards firearm ownership is well known. Now, I do think 10 years old is a bit young but 13-16 is the right age to teach a young boy how to shoot.
I was 14 when I technically received my first rifle from my father. He passed down to me an Colt AR-15 A1 that he was given by my uncle in the late 1960's. It came with a nice metal carrying case, cleaning kit, and two 20 round magazines.
The rifle was kept under lock and key for safe keeping. We would take it out when we went shooting and was officially given to me at my 18th birthday. I own many firearms today including the AR-15 my father gave me. I almost 40 years old and we still go shooting today. It is the only bare stock rifle I own. I wanted to change the direct impingement for a piston for years but my dad begged me not too...I agreed and it have not changed it. I wound up buying an AR-15 M4 A4 that I completely converted and they both are great.
@Boi
Yeah...what's your point? What I said was correct. Typically, people outside the US have an irrational fear of inanimate objects. I am proud to have the right to defend my family and home from criminality. The right to keep and bear arms has saved my life.
On October 18, 2016 two armed men attempted to force their way into my home. They banged on my front door so hard that my living room shook (approx 12:30 AM). My fiancee and I were in the living room working on a project for our religious studies class. I jumped up from our couch and grabbed my handgun (my conceal and carry is always close by). I went to the door and looked out of the peephole...I saw no one. As I now have degrees in both criminal justice and criminal psychology, I knew what was happening. I told my fiance- "This is likely a criminal at work, call the police." She looked out the front window and saw two men kneeling underneath the window waiting for me to step outside. I swung ooen my front door and backed up 2 meters (6 feet) and centered my weapon on the door.
My fiancee watched them as they were in complete bewilderment that I did not take their bate. They rushed to my front door wearing masks, one carried an ice pick while the other had a crowbar. They stopped at the threshold of my door and were so blitzed out of their minds they did not realize that I was pointing a 1911 Colt .45 at them. They screamed at me- "We are coming in and if you know what's good for you, you will give us what we want!" I said nothing to them in response and once again they barked the same thing. That was when they realized that I had a gun in my hands and their attitude changed instantaneously.
From that point foward it was- Yes sir and no sir. I made them take off their masks and stand against my garage while the police came and collected them. The police took over 20 minutes to get too my home.
What was almost comical was how the police reacted to the scene. They fully expected to find dead bodies when they arrived. The cops asked me why I didn't shoot them. The reason is fairly simple, I do not want to shoot anyone. That's the kind of thing that will haunt you for the rest of your life. They stopped what they were doing giving me no reason to push it further. Hell, I wouldn't have tried to stop them from running away either.
At any rate, you can say "Americans" all you like, I'm proud to be in a land that enables me to defend my family.
@@Sinn0100 You're a little trigger happy.
@@tomwithey711
I'm glad you read what I wrote and not at all misconstrued what I said...that was sarcasm. I didn't fire my weapon once and turned them both over to the police. That would be the exact opposite of being trigger happy. Reading comprehension is fun.
"Hey, relax guy, you need a rest"
-Saddam Hussein
Underrated comment
@@maxkassette1880 Agreed! Haven't laughed so hard at a UA-cam comment in a month of Sundays LOL
Come onnnn guuuyyyy
@@GIMMETHELOOT94 i'm not your guy buddy
I mainly know Saddam because of South Park.
This has quickly become one of my favourite channels on UA-cam!
I’ve listen to it all the time when I’m driving to and from work!
Fun fact: Saddam said he intentionally acted like he had WMDs to scare Iran. Boy did that backfire.
“Butcher of Baghdad”? I thought that title went to George W. Bush. 😂😂
Yeah
Technically Dick Cheney if you dig a bit deeper, Bush was just a face for the invasion, Cheney was the one pulling the strings
Nice youre repeating the top comment....
@@jasonarmstrong5750 yes sir. Watch the secret history of isis. Former Intelligence workers spoke as well
My family is from Iraq, specifically Baghdad, and what bush did was devastating
You left out the part where the USA supported his regime over that of Iran and were willing to overlook his crimes!
Gajkrupa 2020 The US Sold Them Weapons And even had american soldiers fighting iranians because they needed irans oil
Suhail Alhegry Where do u think they got it from 😂
@Suhail Alhegry bro how tf do you think those fuckers built up all of it
Saddam invaded Iran because he felt threathened by Khamenei. Yes the US supported Iraq, so did the saudis. The US also sold weapons to Iran during the same period.
Anas Belmont ya everything is a conspiracy when you look at it with enough paranoia.
I recently did a report on Saddam Hussein. I showed it to my mom, and she was very well pleased. Then she asked me the most curious question: “Do you think if his dad was around or his stepdad was treated him kindly, do you think Saddam Hussein would’ve been a great leader?” I told her absolutely.
Dream on!
My dad worked for UN when saddam invaded kuwait.. during the kuwait siege saddam planted thousands of mines in the kuwait land my dad worked as a military engineer to extract those mines..and got severely wounded by them lost part of hand,finger, jaws he had to carry those painful sharpnels through out his life..
That's your dad's fault how can you work for America or the UN, United nations is good for nothing only stealing for their masters, stealing valuable resources on my soil Africa
He is unlucky and lucky, he could go home were others must remain, unlucky that his life is damaged by policies of others and deserves to be treated with respect for his sacrifice. All he wanted was to remove mines so others can live a normal life, and was willing to put his thoughts into real action. What an amazing dad
@@nv7287 no his job was to remove mines so America could freely occupy Kuwait and draw closer to Iraq oil.
@@jamesrivers5303...anti American much?
Why every dictator I know have amazing mustache
Physiognomy
I think the term you're looking for is "amusing moustache", funny facial hair that helps them hide their sexual insecurities.
Kim jong un agrees with your assessment
what about Idi Amin?
@@jishb2505 he means every GREAT dictator
Threatening his primary School teachers with a handgun lol
He belonged in amurica!
Yet places like Burma and Africa have the worst school systems
@Gajkrupa 2020 I'm no Saddam supporter but it was quite obvious that Saddam was no supporter of Islamic Terrorism as the Ba'ath Party was officially Secular infact during the Lebanese civil war he supported the Christian president rather than groups like Hezbollah and other Islamic groups
@J D what do u mean by”behavior”?
Sounds like France
I remember hearing about one of these wars. My dentist at the time used to have a radio on. He was drilling on my teeth, then he heard one of these news about the war, and he stopped, and said, "oh my God", and listened to what was going on. Then, he said, "alright, let's continue with the work here" and kept on drilling.
He was a really good dentist and replaced all my old amalgam filling with plastic filling. At the time, it was believed those would have to be replaced after five years or so. But that was over 25 years ago.
Sometimes I talk to my taxi driver about things like that
Entrance hidden by bricks and rubble
✿ham
"Butcher of Baghdad"- I thought that is referring to Bush & Blair.
And Cheney.
True
To think Blair walks around to this day scot and guilt free.....disgusting for all the civilians and soldiers lost from this pointless war.
That is correct. USA and its allies laid ruin all over the world. But China will tame them. USA has been the biggest bully. We need China to establish world order.
The vast majority of deaths in Iraq were caused by jihadist militias, not the United States, and the figures are far lower than certain groups like Amnesty International command you to believe. The civilian casualties the US is directly responsible is extremely low compared to the amount of Iraqis killed by non-state actors, including former Baathist political and military officials who joined Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, an international jihadist who had been invited to Iraq to receive medical care by Saddam Hussein after his involvement in the failed attempt to destroy the World Trade Center in 1993. I realize that it sucks to be wrong about absolutely everything, but you've been manipulated into believing the removal of the Hussein totalitarian dictatorship constitutes premeditated mass murder on the part of American and British leaders.
When the CIA claims you have Weapons of Mass Destruction, you better make sure it's true.
He did have Weapons of Mass Destruction. He just didn’t have Nukes.
@Marechal Zolotoy They started making Nukes almost immediately as a deterrent against the nuclear powers. They saw how the west and NATO would enter other countries and wage war. They saw themselves as in the crossheirs. It was the only method of self-protection from a tactical standpoint.
The same CIA that helped him to get the power also kill him, such a weird agency
Riverton Cooper Not the CIA but Israel claimed Iraq had WMD. We obliterated 7 ME countries in 5 years. Countries that never uttered a bad word towards the USA. We have murdered millions of innocent people just bcs of Israel. We never had a problem with the ME until Israel was formed. Like we have done nothing to other countries. We are not squeaky clean.
@Marechal Zolotoy North Korea went through severe famine in 2017-18, but somehow stopped since early last year after the nuke experiment was very much confirmed successful, just like PRC did in early 1960 who got the atomic bomb in 1964. Then it came back after sanction from the US. I would say the US should have major accountability for the Koreans who starved to death in these years.
isn't this that red guy from the memes? Cool! they made it into a real thing!
True I thought be red tho but the dlc (the dictator one) is pretty fun
i lost my uncle during the iran-iraq war. we don’t know what happened to him, but he’s been assumed dead. that was just two weeks before the war ended. he was only twenty.
LOL ...saddam was shocked that the USA has no law to stop anyone from complaining about the president, imagine if iraq had their own version of Saturday night live..lol
Fresh new cast every week!!! (The old ones keep getting killed)
Opening the show by shooting aks to the roof.
hacckksheckledach nigh live. Note I dont speak the language
And then its those same stations that claim trump is a dictator
Nowdays in Iraq we have "Albasheer show" , but the cast have to live outside Iraq 😂
Somehow we are experiencing democracy and dictatorship at the same time
Gave him his first real possession: 😊
It was a handgun: 😮
17:34 when you get comfortable on the bed and forget to turn the lights off
A few sound problems with that one, but we'll done Simon I learn more from top 10,s Gio and bio graphics, very interesting keep it up
This guy was a bad dude, but he kept half of the Middle East in Check.
David Cole he was the one who kept ISIS down, they were afraid of him, but once he was gone, they took their chance.
Talk about Bush
And bush loved him but sadaam really did keep half the middle east in check.
He's a "bad dude" but definitely not worse that most if not all US presidents in history.
@@haitamchouiekh5229 loved in iraq? Who loves him more, the kurds who he killed or the shias who got bombed because of him? Idito
As a veteran of OIF, I must say as bad as he was, he should've been left in power. Dozens upon dozens of Iraqis told me life was better under Saddam. Just look at the mess we created.
What did Saddam contributed in Iraq if life was better under his reign ???
Just curiose because Im from philippines, and mostly im pretty ignorant about middle east conlfict...
@@abscbn6599 sunnis and shias lived peacefully together. We let loose a civil war and broke all the infrastructure. Iraq was way ahead in the middle east in regards to hospitals and technology. Don't get me wrong, he was a vile evil man but those are a dime a dozen.
@@26michaeluk that’s the problem do you allow him to continue because life is ok for most but also he’s evil same thing as gaddafi
@@sparks1792 with 20/20 hindsight, yes both should've been left in power. Sad but true.
@@26michaeluk hopefully they have peace and prosperity forever
Thought I should mention from 8.17 - 8.28 the audio cuts out. But besides that one issue, I very muched enjoyed this video. I'm a long time fan of all your channels. Keep up the great work Simon and your team.
Why is so much audio missing? It’s really frustrating to be injoying this video then Having no idea if you missed something important to his history or not because there’s several points where it just goes quite for minutes.
It’s the Iraqi Government trying to censor anything bad about Saddam
I had a computer game in the ‘90s where Saddam would walk across the screen, and when he stopped walking to make a speech you had to drop an anvil on his head. The ‘90s were a different time.
What was the game 😂😂
I remember when South Park would have him as this weird character
@@utsabsingharay4654 Don’t remember mate. It’s been 2 decades
Yo! We used to play this game too! There was another one from mid 2000s which was called Bin Laden simulation or Al Qaeda or something of this sort. It basically had a variety of weapons that you could use to "destroy" your computer screen. And the movable pointer used to be Bin Laden's face. I can't believe we didn't think anything of it then. 🙈🙈🙈🙈
got any proof ?
He may be considered the “butcher of Baghdad “ but he prevented every form of terrorism in that territory coming to power
A TERRORIST KEEPING OUT TERRORIST YEAH FUNNY IRAQ ISNT BETTER WITHOUT HIM BUT THE WORLD IS DEF IS ALSO IRAQ WAS NEVER BETTER IF U CHECK IRAQ HISTORYY IT WENT FROM SHITTY PRESIDENT TO ANOTHER SHITTY ONE
JusThat And u really call a president shitty who gave free education free healthcare and stability to his citizens and if Iraq really had a hard time during his rule u gotta have a website rather than telling me to go look for it. U have to support your claims
He was the terrorist
DJ Grandpa how did he provide this free education and free health care? Because we have a presidential candidate promising the same thing here in America and I guarantee you he would be one SHITTY president lol socialism
@@ffccfjsj Look who we have!
Saddam Hussein's rise to power is a dramatic story, yet unveils a very sad past of his. Had he been raised more humanly, he would've been a different man.
Uuum, you skipped the whole part about CIA involvement bro!
because there wasn't any
The CIA trained him to fight in a coup in his 20s. That was it.
ironic how in many times, the beginning of a life of violence starts with traumas in early infancy
Where's the irony? It's a straight correlation.
Added details to make the narrative plausible.
That's why id think ppl should discipline kids with lashings everytime they do something bad. Id with my first two and they turned out just fine. It could be something their lacking, mentally, emotionally etc. That's just lazy parenting.
That explains Uday Hussein as well!
@@julsteablog3677 No. Children do not deserve to be hit or whipped. If they’re already a dictator ur just making them more violent
Good stuff guys. Keep it up!
Wait why he’s not red?
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I’m Kuwaiti and just wanted to add this tidbit, so when Iraq attacked Iran they took loans from kuwait and after the end of the war they were still being asked to pay the loan and refused to forgive the amounts. It was another reason the idea of just taking over the country sounded smart.
I've heard this too. It's the reasoning that makes the most sense to me.
Kuwait was once part of Iraq, strerching back from Ottoman rule. Only the British carved out Kuwait from the rest of Iraq so the former has no access to the sea and for the British to keep their interests in the Middle East.
Hi Reaper....But the move to occupy kuwait was stupid thinking the world would just keep quiet. Saddam was arrogant and had no feelings for sufferings of people, especially the killings of thousands of kurdish civilians is unforgivable.
Kuwait was part of Iraq
@@eliasziad7864 in that way all Arab nations were part of Ottoman caliphate, will they be ready to go back to Turkey now? Your mentality is like a right wing baathist to justify anything wrong done by the regime. Grow up.
I am a Sunni Muslim, Saddam was not a good Muslim and was a Brutal Tyrant who was mainly concerned about his power at the expense of even killing abd torturing thousands of Iraqis.
Saddam was despot, but if wasn't for the United States and Britains illegal invasion of Iraq. The nation would not be in such a terriable state today.
And could you cover Georgy Zhukov?
Is not that Iraq is free of the Hussein family a good thing in the long run?
Saddam's sons were set to replace him?
At least now Iraq has a chance for a better future unlike it did under the Hussein family?
At the very least life is better for the Kurds and the Shiites of Iraq if not the Sunnies?
EbberDeeMills Or that the first Bush didn't finish the job in the first place.
Gipsy Danger First of all, the man violated the terms of surrender at the end of the war he started by invading Kuwait by repeatedlyrefysing and expelling UN inspectors. Second, wtf is an "illegal invasion?"
NYCAustinNYC is bombing innocent people trying to kill Hussein moral?
Iraqi military:*gets wiped out by a massive coalition and looses Kuwait*
Saddam:I see this as an absolute win
Sound has glitches on this video. Great video though as usual.
This is a very vanilla version of it all, never scratching the facade, backroom dealings, true motivations and the true powers working behind the scenes.
It involves Israel and you arnt allowed to talk about that in America for nation security reasons
@@jackjhonson5757 but america has freedom of speech or whatever they call it
@@jackjhonson5757 Uh guys...
Simon is British 🤦♀️
Actually we don’t -.-
It's Saudi Arabia and Israel. You are anti Semitic trash if you mention the jews taking over the world
Person: Dude what is wrong with you?!
Saddam: My father used to punish me severly
Dude, Uncool.
A man of culture I see you are
sounds like Stalin
To the guillotine!
Almost every infamous person in history has the same family background.
Domestic violence.
Learning more history than I did with my American education. Thanks for your videos.
3:32 thats the most gigachad photo ive ever seen
"He was never filmed walking for more than few steps"
I'm sure that's not true seen video of him performing traditional Arab dance.
This dudes a fckn joke this is like the 10th video of his I’ve seen and it’s liberal nonsense
So a middle Eastern Stalin?
Also damn his life is pretty interesting
Yeah, he definitely wasn't right in the head after that childhood..
Unlike Saddam, I don't think Stalin would have helped middle eastern Christians fight and resist against the threat of genocide ... I would never compare these 2.
For the record This video leaves out alot of details on this man's life and only focuses on the worst aspects of his reign ! Don't get me wrong ... he was a ruthless and murderous dictator after all but he definitely wasn't nearly as bad as western media depicts him and he definitely was (objectively speaking) the best leader among his middle eastern contemporaries !
He's not even close to H--ler or Stalin's pure evil and hatred ! If anybody is interested in more details or has a different point of view I'm all ears :)
@@UA-camUser-qx8ki The only reason why he isn't worse than Hitler or Stalin is because of the death toll. If the U.S never invaded his shithole of a country, he still would've been killing his own people to the point where the numbers would've certainly hit the millions.
Joseph Stalin had South Ossetian origin . His ancestry could be traced back from Iran
@UCB9USn6HV-wqcN_mXQohDJw you are idiot mate . Iran was prosperous compare to what is now under Saddam Hussein .
Thank you for the video it could have been better if you would have fixed the Sound audio because it keeps going on and off
My uncle was part of the thundering 3rd who captured Sadam. He said to me, there was a problem when we over threw him, he was so brutal he kept all factions in his country in line, if we knew then what we know now, we might have let him stay”
There was other problems over throwing him such as an illegal invasion, the massacre of civilians, numerous war crimes, torturing prisoners, the destabilisation of a region, empowerment of ISIS etc etc
I'm Kurdish and I can say that it was better when sadam was alive than now.
Really?
@@puneetsonpal5340 yep in his we getted money at time salarys electricity now we have electricity 16 hoours and its been 60 days right now that we havent got salarjes
You do know about the anfal genocide right.
No
Beast is a beast ... Be it saddam or Bush...any Comparisons can't prove him innocent except prooving ur bias..
"Socks are socks, dont waste money" - Sadam Hussain
What does it trying to say?
@@tuti5521 “Socks are socks, don’t waste money”
@@duiwithc4corvette403 !
Coming from him living in a palace eating the best foods
Love these infogrames.
17:34 🤣🤣🤣 WHOOOOOOO!!! It was worth the loss of audio just to see that “disheveled” look.
0:50 - Chapter 1 - Early life
5:00 - Chapter 2 - Rise to power
8:30 - Chapter 3 - Personal life
10:15 - Chapter 4 - Decades of conflict
16:25 - Chapter 5 - Saddam's fall
Thank you
19:37 - Western propaganda
@@Adam-gf3jg bro that 1 sec is propaganda true lol
Thank you
Who was Saddam? Of course, the dishonorable one. He killed thousands of innocent people. While people were starving in Iraq, he was throwing himself a million dollar birthday party. He closed the road to Karbala. He destroyed Imam Hussein's harem. How many people he unjustly imprisoned. At the time of his death, he could not testify. May God make the place hellll
He did have chemical weapons stockpiles, we looked at the receipts and we definitely sold some to him.
Best comment period 😂
How can almost 3800 people not like this video! Fantastic channel . Love this guys editing great voice.
Because it skips the truth
@@levyroth what truths are missing
Great vid but you should really fix the audio cuts.
Biographies are useful sources of wisdom and lessons. Thanks for sharing
“Miss me yet?”
-Saddam Hussein
@ATG IMM Pretty much sums it up. Saddam was a bad man but he was the only best choice the region had over all. Dude had many sins but we all gotta admit his contributions led to a stable, strong society.
@@themercifulguard3971 heyy relax guyyy
Eyyyy budddy calm down freind!
Yes
Saddam❤️
Sound does cut out. Also I like the light on you to see your pretty eyes. The newer vids keep you in shadow. Maybe by design?🤔
Congrats on 2 million subs, i was damn close to being the 2 millionth re sub lol
As bad as Saddam was, the American invasion completely destroyed the country. A couple of weeks ago I was in Mosul, and seeing a city after the US droppped some freedom and democracy on it is truly devastating.
What were you doing in Mosul a few weeks ago?
Sickening is it that bombs are supposedly the way to "help" people.
As bad as he was lol have a look at the fuckers he had to keep inline lol
@@nietzschesghost8529 I know, I was just asking. I am from Mosul myself.
*destroyed saddams regime
When I see saddam I see the South Park version of him lol
Damn i didn't until you said something lol
"Hey! Relax guy!"
Same
Lmao yeah
How come the sound keeps cutting out at certain points?
Suddenly Arrested development just became funnier.
Loses 150,000 soilders in 6 weeks. “Ya boys we got em on the run this time”
Thanks for your great videos. I am a fan. I think you had to mention three points to be historically fair: 1- all western countries, along with the USSR, supported Saddam and Iraq during the war against Iran, as illustrated by the image of Donald Rumsfeld shaking hand with Saddam during those war years. 2- The chemical weapons used by Saddam against Kurdish civilians were sold by his western allies, particularly Germany and France. They were given to Saddam on the expectation that they will be used against Iranian forces. If Saddam had not used them against Iraqi population and instead just had killed Iranians with it, the story about these chemical weapons would have been forgotten in the west. 3- George H. W. Bush gave the impression to Saddam, before the invasion of Kuwait, that the USA will stay out of a potential conflict. Saddam was not stupid enough the invade Kuwait had he projected an American involvement. Now, shortly before the American involvement, George H. W. Bush asked the people of Iraq to riot against Saddam. They did so, expecting Americans coming for help. But the US president ignored those calls after Kuwait was liberated. The riots were harshly oppressed by Saddam's forces and many civilians were persecuted and executed. George H. W. Bush was in no way a hero in this matter ...
It was not just "the West" who supported Saddam.
You're wrong. France supported both Iran and Irak. Khomeini was exiled in France just before the war. Yes, we like all kinds of dictators...
@@fredg8328France was home to all Iranian revolutionaries before the revolution. Khomeini was one of them and, at the time, had not yet shown his ugly face. Things changed after the revolution when all groups who had contributed to the revolution were violently removed (revolution eats its own). When Iraq invaded Iran, Khomeini's sect had taken over the country, and soon their extremist agenda (including the hostage crisis) soured their relationship with the west. Nevertheless, the country was united against foreign invasion. It took tremendous support from both East and West for Saddam to not lose the war.
@@shahinkamali Sorry I didn't read again my comment after posting it. In France it is spelled with a "k"
@@fredg8328 I see. Thanks. I am learning your beautiful language :)
the sound cuts out can you re upload?
his childhood was terrible but thats no excuse
Ritwik Ghosh so childhood don’t matter to ya?
Dude, how would you feel if your mother left you?
Hitler was said to have a bad childhoods and so is Hideki Tojo.
Easy for someone who's gone through no trauma to say
@@regularman5914 I wouldn't feel like slaughtering my people and executing people I didnt like in whatever horrible way I desired
and after removing the evil saddam and qdaffi? what happened to their country? hell
Nope. That was due to pulling out of Iraq and not leaving a stay-behind force to secure the region. Guess why they did that? Because of people like you, who demonise America. It was due to political pressure from people like *you* that Obama pulled all forces from Iraq. *THAT* is when the country collapsed. Because we left a massive power vacuum with no stable power structure, and ISIS claimed it. The problem wasn’t removing Saddam, it was leaving without properly replacing him. Blame the ones who pulled out of Iraq, not the ones who went in.
@@princeytron Sure, US has been in Afghanistan for soon 20 years, using the same argument. Now tell me, how is that working out for you?
@@Shreddah The US entered Afganastan as a defense against the USSR invasion. I can't believe I have to explain why Iraq and Afganastan are terrible comparables, but fine.
Afghanistan has always been one of the most unstable and tumultuous regions on planet earth. First of all, it is set apart and isolated from surrounding nations by the Hindu Kush. Afghanistan is not a flat plain desert, it has a 800-kilometer long mountain range cutting through it. This makes it one of the most difficult regions in the world to govern. It remained a region filled with nomadic farmers and small tribal chiefdoms far into the 20th century. The country was not able to even get a modern infrastructure before the 1978 revolution and resulting invasion.
Afghanistan did not have anything close to resembling a single government. The "Democratic Republic of Afghanistan" was barely more than a monarchy that controlled a few major settlements. It wasn't until AFTER the pull out of the soviet union that any sense of government was established, and that was The Taliban, who did not rule through traditional governance.
You're comparing a modern country with infrastructure, a real government, and a central culture, Iraq. To a geographically divided, unstable, barely modern region, Afganastan, as if they should have equal outcomes. Just because they are both in the Middle East doesn't mean anything about them should be the same.
Finally, you're wrong. It is Pakistan that is the most heavily involved in Afghanistan and has been pumping influence into it since Pakistan gained independence. It is Pakistan that provided the bulk of the resources against the USSR, it was Pakistan that supported and propped up The Taliban Regime. The US is barely invested in comparison. Again, an entirely different situation to Iraq.
A more apt comparison would be Germany or Japan, or even South Korea. These countries *still* have US troops stationed there. These are examples of invasions resulting in a breakdown of the power structure. If we had pulled out of Germany in 1946 (if not for the USSR) there is no doubt the Nazi regieme would have resurrected. If we had pulled out of Japan without forcing its government down another path, the Imperialistic spark would have ignited again.
We invaded Iraq, we paid the cost of securing that country. After we had secured it, we could have stabilized it. By pulling out, we not only gave up the entire country to enemy insurgents, but we abandoned our allies and the citizens who supported us. Contrary to idiotic anti-American nonsense, a huge amount of Iraqi citizens were pro-America, and plenty joined in the fighting against the Iraq regime. Plenty of militias and other fighters were our allies. You know what happened after the US was no longer there to protect them? The insurgents and fighters who were hiding like vermin in the cracks and crevices, waiting for their chance, went door to door, found anyone who cooperated or assisted the coalition forces and killed them and their entire families. Tens of thousands of people. Those were Iraqi people. I abhor this "America bad" prism of looking at the world that blinds you to reality. It was America that was protecting those Iraqi people, and it was the pull out of America that caused their deaths. Iraq would be in a much better state right now had we continued our presence there.
But sure, just saying "but Afghanistan" totally works, except it makes no sense.
@@princeytron What are you talking about? USSR? I am talking about the 2001 invasion, which today is a perpertual war. But nice try to underplay the role of the CIA and US in propping up the taliban regime in 80's, with funding reaching $600+ million per year at the height of the operation cyclone. I'd say that's plenty helpful. Yet it came to bite them in the ass, just like with propping up Saddam in the 80's.
The US is still hundreds of thousands casualities, of which 200.000+ occured before 2011, because the war should have never been started in the first place. So of course it's only valid to blame a country for starting an illegal war which had calamitous consequences for the region and the world. It's also valid to have contempt for US government for being the shyster bullies of the world.
@@princeytron I mean soldiers cant just pull out, they were *ordered* to pull out and the government left Iraq with no leader
why did it cut you off mid sentence multiple times?
It’s the Iraqi Government trying to censor anything bad about Saddam
As always so good, but i have to watch/listen at .75 speed, so hectic
For all that Saddam was, he was also the man to bring education and stability to the country. After his death, even his executioner said that while during Saddam's reign he had many family members and friends killed, he regretted killing Saddam because he saw that Iraq is in worse state than it had been under the dictator.
His death also gave rise to sectarianism and exteminism. He was a brutal dictator no doubt, but his brutality kept worser things in check and with him gone, it gave rise to instability, religious exteminism and an archaic societal system to dominate the region.
EbberDeeMills good job invoking Godwin's law lol.
Yeah...who cares about all the innocents he had killed...lol
SupaL33tKillar he makes a good point though...
Jeevo literally wrote that in myself to highlight that fact but hey, can't blame people for lacking reading comprehension. 🤷♂️
Andrew Lampart yea, the video even points it out. But go to Iraq or ask pretty much any Iraqi, old and young, you'll find that many actually expressed regret supporting to overthrow him. And who could blame them? Iraq was in a far better state than it is today, marred by constant terrorism, corruption and war.
Ironically, as previously mentioned, it was specifically because of his brutality that kept his country relatively stable because none of the other tribes/ethnicities/sect dared to cause trouble. Brutal as he was, he was in all honestly, the kind of man needed for Iraq to progress given the diverse rivalries in and around the region. The day he died, as much as people hate to admit it, is the day the Iraqi chance for modernity and advancement in centuries went along with it.
Every stable country requires a dictator to set the groundwork for a modern progressive nation to support itself on. From Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore to Napoleon Bonaparte of France to Mahathir Mohammad of Malaysia to Mikhail Gorbachev of Russia and even Deng Xiaoping of China, all of them made choices that are arguably just as brutal, some more so. Yet, decades later, we see the fruits of their hard choices and the need for leading with an iron fist thins as the country solves concurrent and persistent problems one by one.
Men make choices, but visionary makes hard choices that men lack the courage for.
I just realized that nearly everything in this video came from an article in The Atlantic published in 2002. And they’re not even credited?
Andrew Daka i think you mean 2003
No it didn’t
Probably using MLA where you cite the sources the article used and not the article itself
I've never been into history that much. But after watching this video I actually learned so much that I barley knew before... I loved how you broke it done in chunks to make it easier thank you for making this!!
barley ?
@@darkbydesign1031 lol and chunks
This video is not informative as the ones I have watched. His father die before his born not disappear. Since Covid-19 started I have watched several different documentaries about him and very interesting.
American used him against Iran in 1979 and when he nationalised the Oil companies, the Americans became his enemies.
Please watch Saddam daughter interview very interesting.
"History is nothing but lies that we have agreed to" - Napoleon Bonaparte. How do we know for sure Saddam Hussein was an alleged "butcher"? Ever watch the movie "The Running Man" (starring Arnold Schwarzenegger)? Schwarzenegger's character, a helicopter gunship pilot, was called "The butcher of Bakersfield" by the media because he would not open fire on protestors. His punishment was to then be a "running man", villified by the media. We do know for sure that the media lied about Saddam Hussein regarding so called weapons of mass destruction and thus a pretext to invade Iraq.
I'm Iraqi and this information has lots of propaganda and misleading agendas. Saddam is a Iraqi national hero.
Why's the audio always cut off at every transition?
He was not a nice person, but Iraq was alot better place with him than without him.
Unless your'e the oppressed majority.
Maybe Baghdad was, but not the Kurds, nor Iran, nor Kuwait.
What do you know? didja visit? got mates there? family? how 'nice' was it when SH and his family were running the show? do some research kid. fkn virtue signalers pfft
Americans were very tolerant with him. Instead of crushing him from the beginning when he invaded iran or kuwait, they gave him chances to become more peaceful. What a waste of time.
Its happened before...generals hamstrung by politicians, and more die as a result. More expensive, takes longer, and more civilian casualties, and more chance to lose any moral high ground, gained by UN resolutions, or simple outrage at whatever needs dealing with - fast! Its not worth considering the opinion of those ignorant virtue signaling retards who think SH was OK, and just a bit of a tyrant. He, and his family turned into monsters, and had the army and personal guard running the show. That's happened before too, and been left to grow into say...Nazi Germany for instance. Hitler was ignored, and left to build the (Nazi) machine, that beggared the whole world. I bet a few people knew what was going on, but were swept aside, in the name of ''peace''. Mistakes were made. Lets hope never again. Boo to tyrants, and despots, hurray for the free western world, It will remain.
"oh come on guy, you make me sound bad." - South Park's Saddam
(They sent Saddam to Mormon heaven to punish him)
Why Saddam never appear again after season 7 ?
@@BergmitetheBlueandPointy0712 Cause he’s dead.
@@cupio-stardust But in previous seasons he also die yet still appear.
@@BergmitetheBlueandPointy0712 I don’t know lol, plothole i guess.
F, something tells me you got copyright strikes on the opening/transition music lol
the audio cuts out
Well done. Thanks so much for posting!
Love your channels Simon. You have very interesting topics that I find highly entertaining most of the time. From across the pond you have informed many minds. As always great job!
why was there some audio interruption ?
He looks like he's wearing some of those disguise your face glasses 🤣
I'm completely fine with this video, but *_WHERE ARE THE WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION??*
So they didn't need to invade.. oh wait! OIL!
bobcharlotte - was that the reason for the invasion?
SupaEMT134 didnt u listion all they destroy isreal and usa listion up
Ask the Kurds...oh wait, they're dead, and the empty sarin canisters were found nearby , used by SH on them. is that not enough, for you? how many bodies do you need?
it would make sense if it would financially benefit the US but the cost of the Iraq war far exceds the costs of the oil that they got
The entire comment section be like: "Saddam fucking sucked but goddamn ISIS is worse"
"Sure he sucked but he kept half of middle east in check"
It's facts though. Saddam was bad but now that he's gone, 1000 Saddams have taken his place.
No, he didn’t suck. He was the pride of Iraq and I’m ashamed to be Iraqi now we are a lost cause and Iran’s province. Thank you for destroying my countries future
@@tawiilive So you think that using weapons of mass destruction against civilians and imprisoning/killing people that critisized the government "didn't suck"?
@@77Raffi77 The us is the one with the nuclear weapons 😁 and guess who also were the only ones to nuke people with it
@@rigel9102 I was not talking about nukes. Those haven't been used since WW2. Very different situation.
Audio seems to vanish when pictures are up and we miss a few words
Iraq: we avoided Hitler and Stalin
Saddam: hold my Portuguese rosé
True, this fucker is underrated in terms of commonly mentioned dictators. You always hear about Stalin and hitler with mao coming in close behind.
But in my opinion saddam and pol pot are up there too yet hardly anyone ever mentions them. Some people on the internet even like saddam.
Simon, WTF? You've created a bio feature of Saddam Hussein without mentioning his relationship with the U.S. CIA at all? It seems to me this relationship - which secured his rise to power - is pretty fucking important AND very damn interesting. It's difficult to take this seriously without any accounting of that pivotal relationship. It's a huge omission and makes me skeptical of the authority of your greater body of works. A follow-up video completing this history would really tie this together...
I dont think the video would exist if he had included that relationship as CIA will take it down immediately
Simon also promotes the lone gunman single shooter theory of the JFK assassination. Yeah, the gig is up - he's just another paid shill.
@@jazarousmand825 - Simon obviously collects a CIA paycheck.
he replaced a brutal ruler of Iraq. it turns out he is another brutal. yes cia was involved but, they never predicted he would become a dictator. a brutal dictator who gassed civilians.
Ugrak Pletkiilik That doesn’t matter. The CIA have no right to interfere with other countries and handpicking their leaders. And on the subject of “ they never predicted he would become a dictator “ Wat about general pinochet? Wat about the shah in iran? Wat about Ngo Dinh Diem in south vietnam in the 60s? The CIA dont care if their choice will become a dictator, they care about the person serving their interests first.
you do know the sound cuts out repeatedly?
Has a lot of the sound on this been edited out, or is it just glitchy everytime I try to watch it?
I think it’s a re upload
So wild that this dude would play such a huge role in my life. Spent a lot of time in the suburbs of the city he used to rule with an iron fist. Lots of unfinished military officer housing, 2 giant unfinished mosques, life just stopped for awhile after we showed up.
murderers replaced murderers
@@onwardupward9392 But the ones that did the replacing are a thousand times worse
@@Golaithan a murderer is a murderer both deserve a life imprisonment or death.
@@Golaithan that’s crazy dude, please explain how they are somehow worse than a man who murdered between 250,000 to over a million Iraqis and kurds? You pro Saddam clowns are absolute sickos
@@Golaithandaesh are way worse hahahah
Liking this new series, Mr. Whistler...even better than "Today I Found Out"! Keep it up!
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The audio of this video keeps cutting out right when it sounds like an important part of the documentary. It’s frustrating.
Heads up ! You've got some audio problems in this.
I came for his involvement with the CIA. Am disappoint.
Now I'm wondering what else you're leaving out on other episodes
I agree with you on everything except that "am disappoint" line.
Maybe he is maybe he isn’t bias nobody knows. I guess you gotta do research of both sides
Unfortunately it seems like most, if not all of this guy's videos are heavily biased against whoever he is talking about and fail to tell a balanced story
grimSleeper59 I mean these are pretty terrible people he’s covering
I don't think he talks about nonsense spread around by incels on the internet
Very informative and well detailed bio!