Research Paper on:
Iraq and Saddam Hussein's Rise

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the world one violent incident at a time. Known as the enemy of the Western world, Husseins early life of struggle and strife ultimately predisposed him to carry out  even worse atrocities than what he endured as a child growing up in a poor village. His early taste of military life amidst a beggared upbringing in Baghdad was  introduced to him by his uncle, Khayrallah Tulfah. From that point forward, Hussein would always have a penchant for politics.1 At age nineteen, Hussein voluntarily became a member of  the socialist Baath party, a starting point for what was to later become Iraqs worst nightmare. By age twenty-two, he had taken part in attempting to kill Iraqi Prime  Minister Abudul Karim Kassim; however, the assassination plot did not end up as planned when a bullet found its way into Hussein leg, causing him to seek political refuge in  Syria and then Egypt for many years after the bungled incident. This was to be but the first of many political upheavals in which Hussein would become intimately involved,  with the 1968 Baath party revolt bringing about the rule of General Ahmed Hassan Bakr. Shortly thereafter, Hussein occupied the vice presidency "from which he built an elaborate network  of secret police to root out dissidents."2 Nearly a dozen years after the fact, Bakr was readily dethroned by a self-absorbed tyrant whose infatuation with brutality became a daily  reminder as Hussein promptly "plastered the streets with 20-foot-high portraits of himself."3 Even though Hussein sought to purge political discord when he was vice president, he became the very catalyst  of such dissent when he absconded with the presidency. The reign of terror began immediately with dozens of unfaithful government officials met with unexpected death as Hussein systematically sought