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This 3 page paper provides an overview of the life and actions of Saddam Hussein. This paper provides a connection between his childhood and his desire for greater things. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

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100 miles north of Baghdad. His family were "Sunni Muslims, the countrys ruling minority group" and by all accounts, young Saddam was something of a difficult child who began running away from his step-fathers home when he was around 8-years old (Hewitt, Morehouse, Norman, and Biddle, 2002). Hewitt, et al (2002) also report that when a reporter from The New Yorker visited the school Saddam attended as a teenager, he found that the boy had been judged as a "mediocre student" but he also discovered that: "In spite of his modest background and limited academic gifts, however, Saddam even then had big dreams" (p. 77). Hewitt et al (2002) also report that even while he was still only a teenager, Saddam became a member of the Baath Socialist Party (pp. 77). In 1959, when Saddam was 22, he joined with fellow Baath members to assassinate Prime Minister Abdul Karim Qassem (Hewitt, Morehouse, Norman, and Biddle, 2002). They failed and Saddam was shot in the left leg (Hewitt, Morehouse, Norman, and Biddle, 2002, p. 77). He fled to Cairo and did not return to Iraq until 1963 (Hewitt, Morehouse, Norman, and Biddle, 2002). "A year later, when the Baathists were themselves ousted, he spent two years behind bars for subversion" (Hewitt, Morehouse, Norman, and Biddle, 2002, p. 77). Eventually (and obviously) he emerged as the "strongman" of the Baathists to formally become Iraqs "resident" in 1979 (Hewitt, Morehouse, Norman, and Biddle, 2002, p. 77). Saddam Hussein was able to establish his legitimacy through his determined efforts to improve Iraqs infrastructure, even if any "whiff" of democratic reform was immediately snuffed out. Hussein made sure that roads, bridges, schools, and hospitals were built which served to reassure the Iraqi people about his commitment to their needs and concerns ...

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