Saddam Presentation

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2. US INVOLVMENT IN
SADDAM HUSSEINS DICTATORSHIP
3. Military Dictator
4. All this terror under the
Eyes of those who
protect freedom
5. 6. Eisenhower Doctrine
President Eisenhower believed that, as a result of the Suez conflict, a power vacuum had formed in the Middle East due to the loss of prestige of Great Britain and France. Eisenhower feared that this had allowed Nasser to spread his pan-Arab policies and form dangerous alliances with Jordan and Syria, and had opened the Middle East to Soviet influence. Eisenhower wanted this vacuum filled by the United States before the Soviets could step in to fill the void. Because Eisenhower feared that radical nationalism would combine with international communism in the region and threaten Western interests, he was willing to commit to sending U.S. troops to the Middle East under certain circumstances.----US department of state website
Nationalized by Eygpt
7. 8. Published on Sunday, April 20, 2003 by Reuters
Ex-U.S. Official Says CIA Aided BaathistsCIA offers no comment on Iraq coup allegations
by David Morgan

PHILADELPHIAIf the United States succeeds in shepherding the creation of a post-war Iraqi government, a former National Security Council official says, it won't be the first time that Washington has played a primary role in changing that country's rulers. duringRoger Morris, a former State Department foreign service officer who was on the NSC staff during the Johnson and Nixon administrations, says the CIA had a hand in two coups in Iraqthe darkest days of the Cold War, including a 1968 putsch that set Saddam Hussein firmly on the path to power.Morris says that in 1963, two years after the ill-fated U.S. attempt at overthrow in Cuba known as the Bay of Pigs, the CIA helped organize a bloody coup in Iraq that deposed the Soviet-leaning government of Gen. Abdel-Karim Kassem."This takes you down a longer, darker road in terms of American culpability ...."As in Iran in '53, it was mostly American money and even American involvement on the ground," says Morris, referring to a U.S.-backed coup that brought the return of the shah to neighbouring Iran.
Why would the US support
the Baath regime?
9. Baath Party
Major factions exist within Iraq and Syria
Goal to revive a Pan Arab movement
the motto of the Party is "Unity, Freedom, Socialism"
10. The book, A Brutal Friendship: The West and the Arab Elite (1997), sets out the details not only of how the CIA closely controlled the planning stages but also how it played a central role in the subsequent purge of suspected leftists after the coup.
The author reckons that 5,000 were killed, giving the names of 600 of them - including many doctors, lawyers, teachers and professors who formed Iraq's educated elite. The massacre was carried out on the basis of death lists provided by the CIA.
How west helped Saddam gain power and decimate the Iraqi elite
By Mohamoud A Shaikh
Saddam who 'had rushed back to Iraq from exile in Cairo to join the victors, was personally involved in the torture of leftists in the separate detention centres for fellaheen [peasants] and the Muthaqafeen or educated classes.'
the Ba'ath party leaders - in return for CIA support - agreed to 'undertake a cleansing programme to get rid of the communists and their leftist allies.'
11. 12. Dictators
13. Saddam Hussein a Dictator?
14. Saddam Invaded Iran in 1980
15. Chemical Weapons were used in IRAQ, Cell biology Professor mentioned his experience in class!
16. U.S was a key supporter of Iraq
17. Phone Interview with Professor Donald Quataert, PhD,1973, UCLA
18. Balance of Power

• Balance ofIraqIran

19. Tanks in 1980 2700 1740 20. Tanks in 1987 45001000 21. Fighter Aircraft in 1980 332 445 22. Fighter Aircraft in 1987 500+65* 23. Helicopters in 1980 40500 24. Helicopters in 1987150 60 25. Artillery in 1980 10001000 26. Artillery in 19874000+1000+