How Saddam Hussein's Greed and Totalitarian Quest for Power Led to the Invasion of Kuwait, World Conflicts and the Degredation of Iraq

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Persian Gulf Crisis, 1990-1991:

How Saddam Hussein's Greed and Totalitarian Quest for Power

Led to the Invasion of Kuwait, World Conflicts and the Degredation of Iraq

Joseph Stalin. Fidel Castro. Adolf Hitler. Saddam Hussein. These names are all

those of leaders who have used a totalitarian approach to leading a nation. Stalin and

Hitler ruled in the early to mid-nineteen hundreds. Like Fidel Castro, Saddam Hussein is

now. Saddam Hussein belongs to the Baath Party of Iraq. This party adopts many

techniques similar to those used by Stalin and Hitler. Saddam Hussein conceived a plan

to invade Kuwait. It was, perhaps, one of the worst mistakes he could have made for his

own reputation and for his country. The invasion of Kuwait as well as the world's

response to it, the environmental disaster it caused, and the degradation of Iraq were

completely the fault one man and his government: Saddam Hussein and his Baath

Government.

One of Hussein's weaknesses is negotiating. Negotiating in his terms is to fight it

out with as much carnage as possible until his side comes out 'victoriously'. Repeatedly,

Saddam and his government break international convention laws. During his war fought

with Iran, the Iraqi army used chemical weapons on the Iranian troops and even on their

own Iraqi population. This was seemingly overlooked by the rest of the world because

most nations didn't want to see the Ayatollah's Islamic revolution rise. Iraq often obtained

foreign arms support from other nations because of this. It wasn't until the invasion of

Kuwait that the rest of the world seemed to realize the danger that Iraq posed...