Was Saddam Hussein A Hero Or Villain? | History Documentary

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Few dictators captivated the world’s attention like Saddam Hussein. As President of Iraq, he reigned as a strongman leader who brought stability to his nation. For a period, he also brought great prosperity and glory to the country. But all this came at a price - as a cult of personality emerged in which ordinary Iraqis were required to almost worship Saddam or suffer the consequences. His totalitarian state ensured that millions of Iraqis lived in constant fear of falling foul of the regime. At the same time, Saddam made decisions that took the country to the brink of ruin. Despite the fact he held an entire nation hostage to his will and whims, remarkably, he is often remembered nowadays in a positive light. Join me as I explore the life of Saddam Hussein to try to understand how such a development could take place!
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0:00 Intro
2:53 Saddam = "One Who Confronts"
6:09 He Of The Gun
7:55 Rise To Power
12:32 Wars Drain Iraq
18:55 International Pariah
21:31 His Legacy

[@HikmaHistory]

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[@zanaghazal3431]

Please make a video about the 1979-1983 Kurdish Iran war I can help u

[@user-mh3er8mx7b]

Evil maniac as a Kuwaiti person 😂 -this message was sponsored by the sabah family

[@zanaghazal3431]

@@user-mh3er8mx7b ? I’m not Kuwaiti I’m Kurdish

[@communistparty-zs2ts]

@@zanaghazal3431 i am

[@youvebeengreeked]

I recently learnt about Saddam's son, Uday, and, erm... good lord. He makes Saddam look nice.

[@HikmaHistory]

This video was originally intended to be 45-ish mins, the section on Uday was one of the casualties unfortunately. What a messed up human being.

[@oneshothunter9877]

Most likely a result of his parents being first cousins. Strange tradition, if you ask me.

[@malegria9641]

True, the guy was so evil that saddam had to literally imprison him repeatedly just to uphold his own reputation. Uday once got mad at Saddam’s favorite server at a party and in front of saddam, the president of Egypt, and multiple party guests, murdered him with a turkey knife

[@youvebeengreeked]

@@oneshothunter9877 Probably. And being one of the most spoilt brats in history.

[@KapitanVladimirArsenyev]

And for some reasons, Uday Hussein is always not included in every pro-Saddam Hussein's comments. Intentionally forgetting his existence and his impact on messed up Iraqi politics.

[@CirclingDuck]

15:01 If Saddam's image was "as constant as the sun in the sky" does that mean it disappeared for 12 hours per day?

[@Ruder6163]

Only when you’re asleep

[@lastword8783]

The sun is still in the sky, youre just facing a part of the sky where the Sun isn't visible.

[@CirclingDuck]

@@lastword8783 The sun is in space, that's not the same thing as the sky.

[@abc_cba]

I was watching the films from "disturbing movie iceberg" When I watched a film under his rule, I literally threw up. I was amazed what this man was shown as a hero meanwhile what he committed on Shi'a Muslims, Marsh Arabs, Kurdish people. I request not to watch that documentary on archive website as you might need anti-depressants after it or may have sleepless nights. It has literal scenes of amputations on the streets, lashings, b-headings, I wonder how was he different from ISIS. His only safe group was the Assyrian/Chaldean Christians as he spent millions of dollars in their churches from Iraq to the Chicago, US in funds citing they are the only native people of modern Iraq meanwhile, all others like Circassians, Turkish, Mandeans, Shabaki, Kurds, everyone else were Arab. I mean - whaaaat?

[@cameraman1234567890a]

what is the name of the documentary?

[@abc_cba]

@@cameraman1234567890a search for "Buried in the Sand" but I would insist not to watch it, it would give you horrors for weeks to come.

[@abc_cba]

@@cameraman1234567890a Buried in the Sand

[@elemperadordemexico]

I assume the reason why they were protected was because the only guy he trusted, Tariq Aziz, was a Chaldean Christian and this was his patronage

[@موسى_7]

No surprise there, a lot of ISIS terrorists are former Saddam military and police agents.

[@orboakin8074]

I am not surprised many Iraqis look at him fondly. Here in Africa, some people now venerate dictators and brutal tyrants like Idi Amin😮‍💨

[@KapitanVladimirArsenyev]

Low Human Development Index & education is the root cause of idolizing those dictators blindly. Here in Indonesia most people who supported Soeharto dictatorship were the lowly educated ones.

[@jattjamesbond1122]

@@orboakin8074 only sunnis Iraqis that is nor more than 5-8% love him kurds asw ell as shias basically 90% plus population hate this bast ard saddam 😏

[@barracuda6900]

There's no disputing that dictatorships and authoritarian regimes can bring stability - at least temporarily. But if that stability is dependant on repression and the rule/whims/worship of one leader with no accountability, it's just liable to fall apart after a while.

[@RoniiNN]

It would still be a dictatorship if he worked with cia

[@hydra8845]

You think the whims of the masses are somehow better then the whims of one man? Democracy will always choose the easy path and vote to give themselves more money even at the detriment of the future of the nation.

[@barracuda6900]

@@hydra8845 one unaccountable leader can be much more dangerous. Malignant narcissism and a sense of invincibility will develop in that individual. The unrestrained will of the masses can lead to anarchy and even another dictatorship, but it holds much more potential for accountability and a more free and equal society.

[@barracuda6900]

@@hydra8845 also, not everyone is voting to "give themselves more money". If you think that is what all voters are thinking about, that tells me a lot more about you.

[@HistoryOfRevolutions]

Define stability

[@AugustusHistory]

Another great video Hikma!

[@pouriajafarikia65]

Great video as always hikma

[@070Jun070]

The way Saddam purged his political opponents on live TV while smoking a cigar is the most gangster thing I have ever seen. He also understood that combating theocratic sentiments is very important

[@موسى_7]

Combatting theocracy is very important for people who want to destroy their countries with the curse of God

[@070Jun070]

@@موسى_7 Especially islamic theocracy

[@illestmelody6909]

They’ weren’t just political enemies they were trying to sell Iraq to Syria

[@ZillyWhale]

"I am the president of Iraq and I am willing to negotiate." -Saddam Hussein upon his capture.

[@yaredo895]

what was he supposed to say then ''howdy parTner''?

[@LarryLarryize-wu4ru]

He was negotiating and abiding by USA demands way before he was captured. Just listen to Scott Ritter. The war was about the ideology, they killed all the baathiat and all the intellectuals during their invasion, more of a pillaging

[@Matt_The_Hugenot]

Iraq wasn't stable under the Ottomans, it spent decades effectively independent under Georgian Mamluks then under several more under direct Ottoman rule. The British mandate didn't have entirely unnatural borders they corresponded roughly to theboundaries of the three Ottoman vilayet Thad had usually been considered together. The British administration was incompetent as was true across Asia from the Mediterranean to Burma. The idea of handing the country over to a monarchy drawn from a small segment of the population was a particularly bad one. The Baathist coup produced another unrepresentative regime but one important factor was missed in the video and that's US failure to mens bridges with Iran. From 82 onwards Saddam was only able to fight the Iran-Iraq war because of US assistance funneled through other countries like Britain and and Italy plus arms dealers to which America turned a blind eye. The US also gave Saddam diplomatic cover for its use of chemical weapons and didn't do anything about the USS Stark incident. Saddam seemed to believe that once The US had supported him they always would and that turned out to be a grave error

[@michaelowino228]

Good video.

[@biometal770]

Great video. Hikma is one of my favorite creators. Being from the US, it’s extremely important to understand the dynamics and history of the Middle East.

[@saifmadni12]

Brilliant video

[@masahibbhatti4088]

Another banger video. Keep it up

[@McVaySwifty]

Saddam is an example of what intellectuals like Hobbes like but what every citizen hates!

[@OFFICIALDJFLASHBACK]

I've seen so many videos of Saddam Hussein, but this one is another one to add to the great vault. Thanks Hikma History for another great video! Love learning more about the history of the Middle East.

[@AliAli-nr5uz]

تمضرط شبعنا منه .... المهم هو تبرءة أمريكا من دمار العراق .

[@tammijatti9164]

Thanks!

[@BillGreenAZ]

I used to work with an Iraqi man. He said everyone he knew had a family member killed by Saddam. But he also said Iraqis would rather have Saddam in power than be occupied by George Bush and the US. Imagine how much hate they could have for such a barbarous man. Now imagine how they would prefer him over being occupied. A benevolent dictator is sometimes the best leader for a people.

[@barracuda6900]

And the Iranians always had a much more powerful navy than Iraq. So Saddam probably wasn't going to be taking control of the Persian Gulf in the Iran-Iraq War.

[@socialmedia5534]

People forget the impact Iran had on Iraq. Many Iraqis despise Iran and the Ayotollah

[@موسى_7]

Many Iraqis are atheists and communists. Doesn't make them right.

[@MateoMPM]

Hakimaa hakimaaaa please make one video about Hafez al assad

[@notactuallydumb3053]

I think what you're offering with this video is truly valuable, and I say so in particular because of our current context in time. English language media has had a series of oversaturated gluts of Saddam indictments on repeat in the past, and in such a context a documentary like this would address real facts but in an environment where their meaning as political intervention would be limited and (for example in the run up to the 2003 invasion) potentially distracting. Today, particularly for a younger and more politically engaged audience, circumstances are different, and I admire how you recognize that. Today the most strident social media-based discourse on recent and historical violence in Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Yemen etcetera has an issue that pervaded US dialogue to disastrous effect preceding and during the Iraq War: the trappings of ethics used to cloak a primally-motivated good-guy against bad-guy form of tribalism. The magnitude of the impact of netizens extolling Assad, Saddam, or their Islamist counterparts elsewhere is obviously not comparable with that of the US intelligence and political establishments' manic convulsions, at least I don't see how anyone taking themselves seriously could compare them. Still toxicity in political discourse undercuts its efficacy and alienates us all. In the same way Saddam's disgusting cruelty impacted Iraq both through the culture of internal state repression and by reflection through external actors and their Saddam-contingent choices, we can expect historical cults of personality and selective ethics in general to hurt the dialogue of history/politics/intergroup relations both as a toxic culture and through its reflections produced when such toxicity is seen by free-agents in the external political space. Sometimes the most searing counterargument to a serious political movement can be listening to its most vocal proponents. This is always such a tragic shame. Again I appreciate this video as an intervention against partisan apologism for a creature who is increasingly recast as a solution to injustice. I trust in your intentions because of your willingness to challenge hypocrisy, but to be honest if you'd asked me in advance about whether a video called "How Saddam impoverished Iraq" were necessary I'd be like, "nah man the English language audience doesn't need to hate on Saddam more, once you recognize evil as evil further litigation against it mostly risks the exclusion of wider understanding". Reading your comments I see how wrong I would have been. Apparently an upsettingly large contingent of the internet only has the mental bandwidth to process the existence of one bad-guy. I find it impossible to blame those who have had their dreams and safety, loved ones or life ripped from them by violence if they see the world in black and white. At the same time even if I tried I couldn't smother my shame in those who pantomime political perspectives that emerge from trauma like the pro-Saddam revival, in spite of living privileged lives like my own. Hopefully this video will help detoxify our culture of dialogue. All the best.

[@mr.goldenproductions_0143]

Hikma, you're a treasure-trove of insight from a MidEast perspective, thank you!

[@try2justbe]

He is not even from the middle east. Stop it you're embarrassing yourself.

[@mr.goldenproductions_0143]

@@try2justbe Even if he might live in the West now, he clearly has a Mideast origin from his channel name to his slight but perceivable accent. You have no idea mate.

[@try2justbe]

@@mr.goldenproductions_0143 I'm pretty sure he's not from the Middle east. The name of his channel is no proof as arabic names are used all across the muslim world, especially in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. His accent is desi, too. it's not Middle Eastern. Edit: btw I'm from Iraq, and I've lived through the period he is talking about. So did my family, and this video is full of baised misinformation right from the start.

[@mr.goldenproductions_0143]

@@try2justbe So Saddam was a good guy? Come on man, I know quite a lot of guys from Iraq myself, and the constant terror and arbitrary violence and torture they recounted is not the way to a happy or prosperous society.

[@HikmaHistory]

@@mr.goldenproductions_0143 Intrigued by the accent comment - do I have a slight non-Western accent? I feel like I speak like any other Londoner.

[@mikepete3013]

Clumsily is a kind understatement. Lol

[@HikmaHistory]

Haha forreal

[@themanfromtheeast2048]

your information regarding the invasion of Kuwait, the first gulf war and the economic embargo are very inaccurate. Also in regards to the chemical attack on Halabja, you failed to mention the involvement of both the CIA and Iran. All and all, your video is very biased.

[@agostocobain2729]

Ask Kuwaitis about Saddam, they will tell you how they feel

[@Hellish_Life]

​@@agostocobain2729 no, ask authentic Iraqis about this

[@agostocobain2729]

@@Hellish_Life What, Iraqis like him?

[@Hellish_Life]

@agostocobain2729 What, betrayal Iraqis like the current government of Iraq that they hoped so badly?

[@studentfmk9084]

Hes afghan not iraqi​@@agostocobain2729

[@AllaahuAkbar60]

Fajr Zuhr Asar Maghrib Isha and Witr Namaz, Dua Qunoot ♥❤👌

[@WoodsLesnik]

Its best to say, Autocrats usually end up driving their countries to the ground.

[@Fulcrum-Edits]

Can you do Hafiz Al Assad next?

[@mustafaali3333-q1m]

Hafiz built Syria

[@user-lq5yx1ke5k]

@@mustafaali3333-q1mand his son destroyed it

[@hydra8845]

@@user-lq5yx1ke5kno rebels and America did

[@HikmaHistory]

Decent idea!

[@Fulcrum-Edits]

@@HikmaHistory thank you soo much 😁

[@deathdoor]

Hum... I feel that this video, for all it's good intentions, suffers from murrica's "worldview propaganda". Oh, it's a good opportunity to recommend the first season of the podcast Blowback. It's obligatory listening (the Gulf War was partially instigated by murrica).

[@alisedighi7833]

Saddam destroyed my hometown, Khorramshahr. I’m sick of western kids like you who think they’re open minded and intelligent when they defend Saddam or the Islamic regime in Iran. Your arrogance is due simply to your ignorance and false sense of self-righteousness. Go back to playing your video games and stop trying to pretend that you understand anything.

[@takie9218]

What do you mean by americas world view?

[@nessunodorme3888]

I'd say the Gulf War was entirely instigated by the US!

[@GigaFloyd]

@HikmaHistory i thought you tended to stay impartial?

[@HikmaHistory]

I think 21 mins of the video is pretty impartial, nah? It's only really at the end, 'His Legacy' section, where I give my opinion.

[@yokobono3324]

For anyone who is interested, check out the book "Republic of Fear" by Kanan Makiya. There is a more recent version, but the 1989 one is still very insightful. The forced disappearances of citizens would occur over things as simple as criticizing the clothes Saddam wore in televised addresses. If the body was returned, and that's a big if, the crude box it was in would be sealed with notices that opening the crude casket was a crime that carried the death penalty. So you were forced to accept the "suicide" of your husband or wife, son or daughter, lest you become another "suicide" victim. Really sick stuff.

[@ChiChiLand299]

Excellent video, the nation's biggest problem is that there's still such a big divided amongst religious tensions ethnic tensions and tribalism to the fact that they don't trust each other enough in order to create a functioning government. Yes Saddam could do that but only because he basically forced people to get along they as a society has just not developed enough yet but they can get along with each other without trying to monopolize power or trying to take it from those who have it.

[@dindin8753]

20:00 correction its more likely for money rather than revenge

[@abinashbehera9184]

True life is how people remember u after u...

[@dcanedemboyz7431]

He might have impoverished my whole family, but he was a lion 🦁🦁🦁

[@IAmTheOnlyLucas]

Arabs politics is like: “I don’t care if he put your grandma in a c0ncentration camp. That n1gga was a lion.”🦁😭

[@jattjamesbond1122]

Well 70% of iraqi shia don't think he is a lion he is a coward dictator who ran like a rat when Murica invade Iraq how brave and lion react when somebody invade your country 😂

[@موسى_7]

True lions wear turbans and chant "Ali Ali Mawla"

[@shahidabdoullakhanzorovr1564]

​​@@موسى_7True lions don't deify men. Ali himself (ra) would lash some people for the things that they say on his behalf, if not worse.

[@موسى_7]

@@shahidabdoullakhanzorovr1564 Only idiots would say, in the age of the internet, that Shias worship Ali. Are you confusing us for Nusayris like Bashar al-Assad?

[@franekwojciechowicz3167]

I was quite shocked when I learned that a lot of Jordanians see Saddam as a hero figure, very often having his portrait on cars and so on. As I was told by one Jordanian, they believe that Saddam could do much better for the ME if only the rest of the Arab countries were willing to help him with his cause.

[@ayankhaznawi]

Never show serix this video 🤫 🤫

[@mathewreji6657]

Who is that?

[@countdowntorevolution9986]

pre - video thoughts: hero?? HERO?????

[@HikmaHistory]

Post-video thoughts???

[@HashiramaSenyu]

0:18 is this guy Shashi Tharoor talking with saddam?

[@nicholasr.6568]

Saddam gassed Iraqi Kurds (innocent men, women and children), invaded Kuwait (killing many), invaded Iran (killing over 1MM souls), attacked Israel with SCUDS, was belligerent with neighbors Jordan and Saudi Arabia. His sons committed the most vial acts against their own people, especially women. Seeing the fear in his face, his childish, impish reaction to the IRAQI COURT that sentenced him to death, it makes me so proud to be an American. I once vehemently opposed this war. Over time, I matured, and I revere George Bush and Tony Blair for the foresight in neutering a completely rogue state. A state populated with wayward zealots, a failed state held together by guns and the promise of an Arab socialist revolution that would never come (Ba'ath), and then a corruption and rot that puts Saudi to shame. I admire our President for having the fortitude to see this through to the very end, despite the complaints of Western media and peaceniks. Saddam met his earthly end in the gallows, but rest assured, if there is a hell, he is indeed there. George W. Bush and his father recognized the danger this man presented to all of humanity, and they clipped his balls.

[@CARL_093]

sae aljbrab company in Baghdad iraq my grandpa used to work there in late 1970s to late 80s as a munchie operator my mom always telling stories from my grandpa he brought school supplies all had face of saddam yes he did good but his advisers put him in decisions positions that becomes saddams end his advisers blinded saddam of the reality wtf really going or whats happening outside iraq by the international community ......during the op desert storm there house in there compound sharked from america and iraqi bombings and when america started op desert storm my grandpas employer send them home all of them and pay them the full contract event its not yet finished ...

[@adamhauskins6407]

All great men are complicated

[@ruggedindividual708]

Do you think Saddam was good for the region ?

[@beepboop204]

Casual Historian just did some Gulf War stuff, Saddam def made some poor choices

[@lipingrahman6648]

He was basically what the Arabs could ever expect of their masters. Authoritarian dictators are the gifts that God gives these people.

[@apkidlafirm522]

just call me your old pal saddam hussein hey relax fella you need a rest guy

[@Tardvark]

Already wrong at the strat Major right was given to the land borders

[@AllaahuAkbar60]

Whenever you go to the Masjid please put some coins in the Zakat Box 📦 Allah loves Zakat Alhamdulila 📦❤😊😊😊

[@try2justbe]

Iraq and the Baath party nationalised the Iraqi oil.

[@hindurashtra63]

America calls everyone a dictator except themselves.

[@theancientone2269]

because US presidents are elected and dictators came in coups

[@bigsarge2085]

✌

[@monz9994]

You got it wrong buddy. The reason for invading Kuwait had to do with Kuwait pumping more oil than agreed with other gulf nations. Maybe don't do documentaries if you're not going to do proper research

[@HashiramaSenyu]

Saddam was deposed by the US after many a times they tried through public revolts. Bqsically it was done to serve Iraq on a platter to shia IRan. Since Iraq has nearly all the sacred cities of Rafidism.

[@user-lw3zm8gu5m]

Saddam was a dictator And this is true But those who paid the price for the Gulf War, the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, and the American invasion of Iraq were other than the Iraqi people themselves You said Saddam was tried for his crimes Why were the soldiers who killed Iraqi civilians not tried, and why was Bush not tried for his crimes for lying to his people and killing only 1 million Iraqi citizens? Bush is still suffering from the Iraqi invasion, and this memory will accompany him throughout his life

[@greg_4201]

hero

[@samk8854]

He was a traitor to Baathism he was the reason why the Syrak unification never happened

[@TheMap1997]

I love your video. But the prejudice is strong with this one. Iraq has the highest standard of living in the middle east back then. Until the gulf war and the sanctions afterwards destroyed it

[@HikmaHistory]

Gulf War & sanctions did huge damage, but let's not forget the Iran-Iraq War before that which left Iraq with hundreds of billions of dollars in debt. Not to mention, it was Saddam's decision to invade Kuwait that invited the Gulf War.

[@jf3457]

Ppl like to forget the Iraq-Iran war, which was a 100% Sadam creation and sent the country to Stone Age. It was not the US.

[@HistoryOfRevolutions]

Define "standard of living". When your relatives randomly disappear and When you are constantly being spied on is that a high "standard of living"? Who cares about justice when there are good roads right?

[@warriorsaddamx]

​@@HikmaHistorybut you need to ask yourself why did saddam invade kuwait , was it because the kuwaitis were digging up Iraqi oil from underground or was it to preserve Iraqi sovereignty? 🇮🇶🇮🇶🇮🇶

[@warriorsaddamx]

​@@HistoryOfRevolutionswomen were free to do what they wanted, religious freedom noone was killing each other no terrorists , Iraq was a major league nation 🇮🇶🇮🇶🇮🇶

[@yaredo895]

This guy hates Saddam

[@memorymeme51]

Yup, Saddam was terrible

[@jesusgonzalez-acton8045]

@@memorymeme51Bush and Blair were much worse.

[@Jacdunn]

@@jesusgonzalez-acton8045 history's worst gay couple are worse then saddam?

[@kobemop]

Saddam wasn't entirely a bad guy. I think the guy is just anti-socialist (like the case of the Muslim Brotherhood).

[@kobemop]

@@jesusgonzalez-acton8045 A low bar, but yes. Western leaders along with other things destroyed the Middle-East and North Africa.

[@AllaahuAkbar60]

Establish regular Namaz and Pay ZAKAT..

[@duckbizniz663]

Appreciate your summary of Saddam Hussein and Iraq. I do not know how much of your report is accurate and how much of it are lies. Assuming you report is accurate then it demonstrates the challenge of Middle Eastern states in the modern era. The obvious truth is that the modern world is dominated by the truly industrialized countries. These modern industrialized nations are the most developed in the world. They are economically, socially, and politically developed when compared to the rest of the countries in the world like India, China, Iran, Iraq, ... I hear the narrator claiming Saddam modernized and Iraq prosperous by selling petroleum to the rest of the world. The truth is Iraq is a backward, pre-industrial country. Saddam's modernization was imported from the industrialized countries (the US, the UK, France, Germany, Japan, ...) to raise the standard of living for the Iraqi people. The industrialized countries created the modern machines. Saddam is a product of a pre-industrial, backward society. He only understands absolute power. He understands that his power comes from his military. He understands that he can use his military to take wealth from other people. Today it is the industrialized countries (the US, the UK, France, Germany, ...) who really control the world. It is the industrialized countries who can impose their interests on the rest of the world. Israel exists because the industrialized countries of NATO want Israel to exist. The four Arab and Muslim countries (Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria) that surround and attack Israel were defeated in 5 days. Can you imagine that? A tiny, little country like Israel can defeat 4 of its neighbors in 5 days. That is not the power of Israel. That is the industrialized power of the US, the UK, France, Germany, and other NATO allies. The existence of Israel and the defeat of its 4 Muslim neighbors in 5 days demonstrate the dominance of the industrialized countries of Western Civilization. Saddam can attack Iran or Kuwait, but that is all Iraq can do. The world has changed very little since WWII. The developed, industrialized countries of today are the same countries as before WWII with the addition of South Korea. The remaining countries are still backward. The rest of the world will remain under-developed until they can create a modern society. A democratic society with a republican form of government. A society governed by the Rule of Law and protection of individual rights and property.

[@ilhamrahim9269]

To be very clear: Saddam was a horrible leader who committed horrible crimes, however the framing of this video is absurd. The reason why Iraq was impoverished is transparently because of the USA. You at least mentioned the sanctions of the 90s but brushing aside the first gulf war is crazy… that war literally destroyed the entire Iraqi infrastructure, water plants, agricultural fields, electrical grids etc. Iraq had the highest standard of living in the Middle East at that point.

[@mustafaali3333-q1m]

Nope it because of saddam

[@mustafaali3333-q1m]

If saddam didn’t stupidly invade Kuwait America wouldn’t invade Iraq

[@ShikakaDomiati]

You are so wrong ​@@mustafaali3333-q1m

[@jf3457]

The guy impoverished Iraq by declaring war on Iran, which led to untold suffering and bankrupt every aspect of the country. . It was not the USA.

[@jf3457]

It was because Saddam invaded Iran. That war bankrupted the country. It was not the USA, you idiot. Sadam was not a real muslim.

[@MoeMa4]

This message was approved by the American and Israeli government

[@KapitanVladimirArsenyev]

Defending saddam & uday is like shooting our own foot then blaming other people for it.

[@MoeMa4]

@@KapitanVladimirArsenyev aaaah yes... Attempting to hide the sun with a sieve, are we? Pretending those two had nothing with the destabilizing of Iraq. 🤡🤡

[@MoeMa4]

@@KapitanVladimirArsenyev defending Saddam?? Bless your heart!!! Is Saddam in the room with us now?

[@KapitanVladimirArsenyev]

@@MoeMa4 Time to held Iraqi politicians like Saddam & Uday accountable for their corruption, for their unnecessary war against Iran which made Iraq in huge debt & economic crisis, plus the subsequent Saddam invasion of Kuwait because his country under his administration clearly failed & bankrupt.

[@Cyan_Nightingale]

Ignoring Saddam's responsibility in how Iraq started downward the spiral of its doom was such a sad revisionist view.

[@Alan_GA]

Obviously Saddam as leader should take full responsibility for the deterioration of almost all aspects of Iraqi socioeconomic life. But to seemingly ignore the role America & it's lackeys played in the slow destruction of Iraq, is to me unfair. Take for example the issue of UN sanctioned weapons inspectors. The whole matter was basically a wild goose chase formulated by America as one of the key reasons justifying the harsh raft of sanctions. Which hurt ordinary Iraqi's than the elites.

[@HikmaHistory]

Couldn't agree more. The sanctions were inhumane to put it mildly. This video however, intends to be a biography of Saddam; so the emphasis was on him.

[@elilina9442]

Yeah saddam was bad but he wasn't that bad compared to people that currently in charge of the country , iraq is literally a failed state because of their mismanagement

[@MoAbuAkb]

True

[@podi78]

Saddam was the greatest Arab leader of his time.

[@Thelastofusfan297]

Shiite channel.

[@موسى_7]

Wahabi comment

[@Thelastofusfan297]

@@موسى_7 Sufi reaction

[@AmbientMike]

I hope you have nice Sunni weather where you are.

[@jesusgonzalez-acton8045]

Kurd-slop channel

[@HikmaHistory]

I see what you did there...

[@sandman_slim4301]

Leave it to a westerner to comment that Saddam is some how misunderstood 😂

[@alisedighi7833]

True. It’s always some 20 something from America or Canada defending the Iranian regime or Saddam because they read a couple of articles or watched a couple of KZbin clips.

[@TIMMYSIPRANO]

All the information you put on your documentries can be heard on CNN and BBC. No Hikma in it just repeated troupes.

[@kevinBaconism162]

Desert Storm, the sanctions (specifically the 1996 death sanctions that killed 100,000 children) are why Iraq was poor.

[@try2justbe]

500,000 hun not 100,000!

[@MateoMPM]

No, Iraq became poor because Saddam decided to fight an 8-year war against Iran That left Iraq with a 60 billion dollar debt

[@kevinBaconism162]

@@try2justbe i usually use low estimates. Low estimate is a minimum of 100,000 dead, high estimate is 500,000, the truth is probably somewhere in the middle. George Bush Senior destroyed 95% of the electricity grid in iraq, then him and Bill Clinton starved the Iraqis and denied them medicine, among other things.

[@موسى_7]

@@kevinBaconism162 Guess how Bush did it? He did it because of the Iran-Iraq war leading to the invasion of Kuwait. If Kuwait wasn't invaded, Bush couldn't have justified his crimes against Iraq. If Iran was left alone, Kuwait would have been safe.

[@juliankraus1011]

Studies have shown that the patterns of excess mortality (specially infant mortality) were already present prior to the Gulf War, as a result of the devastation in the aftermath of the Iraq-Iran War. The sanctions were no doubt detrimental to the recovery of the country, but they didn't cause the crisis at all.

[@try2justbe]

This is misinformation

[@yaredo895]

his videos about saddam are biased

[@HikmaHistory]

How so?

[@QwertAsdfg-ih1ow]

Western propaganda..

[@abir2019]

Like Iraq's doing any better now.

[@runningcommentary2125]

Um... but it is though. No Saddam, no ISIS, no American occupation.

[@QwertAsdfg-ih1ow]

​@@runningcommentary2125They still have USA troops, there are still daeh cells..

[@akoli6027]

This is a horrible video. Lost respect for your content

[@HikmaHistory]

Interesting, how come?

[@reeyees50]

Good leader, propagandized forever by the media

[@Will-xf3qe]

The dude committed basically every crime, war crime, crime against humanity and human rights violation. Also started and lost 2 wars

[@moonlightserenade6292]

More like horrible politician, especially his son Uday, but propagandized & romanticized by his cult of personality

[@theseventhangel9768]

That's what you get for being a CIA puppet. False promises and an undignified end. Glory to the party of Imam Ali as who still stand against the tyrants and oppressors.

[@HikmaHistory]

I don't think calling him a CIA puppet is fair - it was an alliance of mutual benefit, where both used each other.

[@GigaFloyd]

😂 look at Saddam's K/D against Shias and then talk you kafir.

[@موسى_7]

Ali, Ali Mowla! *3 Ali! God bless Muhammad and his progreny and hasten their reappearance.

[@theseventhangel9768]

@@HikmaHistory I'm sure that Saddam understood the 'mutual benefit' when he felt the noose. I'm sure that Iraq understood the 'mutual benefit' when they felt the bombardment that followed. The real question is, "was it worth it?" Choose your friends wisely.

[@HikmaHistory]

@@theseventhangel9768 Don't think with hindsight - Saddam in 1983 didn't know 23 years later he'd be hung by his "friend".

[@abdullahassaffah]

Saddam was great for iraq yes he was a dictator and did bad things which politician doesnt but saddam was great for iraq just look at the situation today even iraqi people are wishing saddam was still ruling them and he protected the sunni muslim from shia kafir

[@MoAbuAkb]

True

[@jattjamesbond1122]

Sunni biased channel deleting comments 😂

[@HikmaHistory]

Wrong and partly wrong. I only delete offensive comments that have no purpose besides offending others. Pretty reasonably I reckon.

[@QwertAsdfg-ih1ow]

Western propaganda and Sunni islamist friendly worldview

[@jattjamesbond1122]

@@QwertAsdfg-ih1ow yup and saying that I only delete offensive comments while made offensive videos with propaganda motives 😏