Is Saddam Satan?

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remaining superpower.
The consensus currently prevalent in this country is that Saddam Hussein, the leader of Iraq, is a totalitarian dictator, thirsty for blood and prestige, who seems dedicated to disobeying the United States. It would seem Iraq is intent on keeping United Nation inspectors out of its own country, although technically “Iraq barred only American members of the inspection teams from carrying on their work”(Nelan 54). The Iraqi “Dictator” seems to have decided he would rather be bombed than inspected. He apparently has no regard for the international community, and yet still wants them to lift sanctions. Also the Iraqi:
“government stopped Ritter from investigating sensitive sites, calling him a spy and complaining that his team was too ‘Anglo-American’... the Iraqis also revealed Ritter was looking for evidence Iraq tested chemical and biological weapons on humans - charge Baghdad called ‘a shear lie’” (Watson 34).
Those reports of human testing are obviously ...

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Communist Russia; it was now the only superpower, with the most powerful military, economic, and political might. It now needed to demonstrate how the U.S. would behave without the check of another equal power. An opportunity soon arose however; Iraq, whom we supported the previous decade during the Iran-Iraq War, began sending out hints that it might invade Kuwait. We Essentially told Saddam to go ahead (see below). When Iraq did take over Kuwait the then President Bush decided to disprove his media stereotype of being a wimp and decided that the most powerful country on earth should wage war on a third world county. A note on Bush’s foreign policy hypocrisy:

“at the time of the Gulf ...

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