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Since It Seems No One Else Can; Gerry Maxey Explains Why ,TWENTY YEARS AGO, America Went to War Against Iraq

In 2003, twenty years ago this month, President George W. Bush’s America invaded the Iraq of Saddam Hussein.   Saddam Hussein was a very evil man; who had started wars against his neighbors Iran and Kuwait.   Saddam means " the one who confronts”; and he lived up to his given name.  He was evil before birth; his birth mother, feeling the Devil’s spawn within her, threw herself down a flight of stairs in order to abort Saddam. Alas, the Saddam version of ROSEMARY’S BABY survived. The Devil is    a powerful ally.   In his youth, Saddam had been a working man. Smart and ambitious, he hated the governing elite; so he joined the Baath Socialist Party; a party which advocated the union of the Arab states. It was a party of educators, academicians and intellectuals, with one working man, Saddam.   The ruler of Iraq was  Abd al-Karim Qasim, a military man who had made his bones leading a revolution which overthrew the pro-Western government of King Faisal...