Extra-important facts about Saddam's days as head of Iraq
And just how bad a ruler Saddam was. Bremer points out how in 1988 (in just one morning!) Saddam had more than 5000 Iraqi Kurds, in the Kurdish town of Halabja, killed by gas bombs. On page 53 he points this out 15 pages after reaffirming the idea that Saddam idolized and modeled himself after Soviet mass murderer Joe Stalin, the Iraqi did this by (among other ways) using Stalin's old practice of using forced populations to resettle in areas to inflame ethnic and religious tensions. Saddam did this by deliberately forcing Sunni arabs into non-Arab/Kurdish territory where conflict was a sure thing. Thank God Saddam was taken down by President Bush as Bremer proves through ugly and true statements like these. Again THANK GOD!!!!