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Saddam Hussein: The roots, the rise and the fall |
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Wednesday, 02 November 2005 |
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Finally, the results of the referendum which was held on October 15 were declared on the afternoon of the October 25, 2005, ten days after the event. The Iraqis have ratified the draft by a 78.59 majority, two governorates vetoed it by a very large majorities, but the third one which the rejecters were hoping to engineer a third veto and thus unravel the processes aimed the country’s democratic transformation failed to materialize. Nineveh on which the balance rested for the last few days voted against the draft but not by the required two thirds majority, the charter was adopted and the Iraqis had a permanent constitution. The problem with the Sunni’s has gotten worse, they have immediately rejected the results and the relative improvement in the security situation which accompanied the referendum has been shattered. On the Thursday October 20th, the calmness was shattered by a truly atrocious bombardment of a children’s school in one of Baghdad’s busiest areas which resulted in the death of at least one child and the terrible injuring of few more. To add to this long spectacle of death and destruction another similarly lethal incident took place in the Firdous circle were two of the biggest hotels are located and which are usually inhabited by the media and the businessmen who happen to be in the country when three bombed cars attacked the area in a very organized succession and resulted in the death of at least twenty people and scores of injured people all passers by and innocent civilians. This left the city in a state of a terrible shock. For all these reasons I have decided to talk this week about a completely different subject, I will be writing about Saddam Hussein. Saddam Hussein is now on trial for the crimes he has committed against humanity, the environment, his own people and his neighbors. Some people trying to portray Saddam as an innocent and blameless victim, I think every effort should be expended in bringing the truth about him and his regime to the widest possible audience.
THERE has been over the years a great deal of literature on Saddam Hussein and his regime, some of it was written by hired crooks and charlatans as part of a sickening and a very determined process of creating a hero. They are all worthless and full of lies and fabrications. The others are the work of scholars and professors in first class universities and famous think tanks with a good deal of help from extremely capable assistants and researchers doing their data collection and in very large libraries and excellent offices, but almost all of them were not totally acceptable because they lacked the necessary touch with the reality of the situation inside the country except in a small number of cases.
HAVING lived the last 35 years in the hell that this creature has created for us, I have always dreamt of writing about Saddam and his rule hoping that my life in Saddam’s hell might provide some useful insights about him and his regime. My dream never had even the remotest chance of seeing the light especially during the last years of his rule when his powers reached unbelievable levels and his murderous instruments of terror became the monsters they have grown into when even a whisper about a project like this would have been an invitation to a very serious punishment. In spite of all those hazards, I never lost hope and continued very covertly over the years to collect data and relevant material hoping for a miracle which at times seemed an impossible hope. Suddenly the house of war and death collapsed and my dream became a reality which is these modest pages a medium sized book of about 50,000 words which I have finished few months ago. I was unable to convince anyone of publishing it, the publishing world is apparently a well knit family which cares about its progeny and its friends only so I have decided to publish on this website and what I am going to do is insert parts of the book into this blog which represent some important highlights of the story of Saddam and his regime with a plea to all those who are interested and could provide relevant data and genuine advice to kindly help in upgrading this work and heighten its worthiness. The story of Saddam and his regime is a very important part of the recent history of this country it is a big mistake to in spite of the pain it arouses to just put it behind us and forgets it. I think it is absolutely necessary to study it in a most rational and objective way. History is the study of the past to learn lessons for the future.
The book is divided into an introduction which deals with the history of Iraq, since the time of the Sumerians until very recently and three sections; the first is called the origins of a tyranny which is itself divided into three parts, the formative years, on the fringe of the party. The second section is called the republic of terror which is also three parts, the trained plotter, the vice chairman and the reign of the beasts. The third section is the fall, again three parts, the crime against Kuwait, the beginning of the end and finally the road to Baghdad. The book stops with the end of the war on April 9, 2003. A good deal about what has happened after that until the present have appeared on this website on different occasions.
The following are two paragraphs from part one section one of the book. The whole part will appear next week and will be followed every week over the next few weeks with other parts which represent some of the more important highlights of the story of Saddam and his regime.
A VERY basic tenet in developmental psychology is what you are now is to a great extent the result of the experiences and events you have been through during the formative years of your life, the first ten. To grow into a normal person stipulates that you were born carrying a normal set of genes, in a descent and loving family and at peace with your environment. The savagery of Saddam’s treatment at the hands of his stepfather and his feeling that everyone was against him had far reaching effects on his character, a predilection for compensatory violence, a sense that no one however close could be trusted and that he was a braver, more intelligent and more valuable than anyone around him.
SADDAM Hussein is a psychological and a cultural aberration which became a monstrosity. Saddam is often called mad, but he is not mad in the sense that he is deranged and disorganized and out of gear. Saddam is also not a psychologically normal individual even within the wide range of what is psychologically normal. The word Saddam is a malignant narcissist [narcissism is derived from the Greek mythology, Narcissus is a beautiful youth who fell in love with his own reflection in water] a narcissist is some one who is totally absorbed in his own self, with a paranoid reaction to those around him, a lack of interest in or awareness of the suffering of others, the absence of anything that might be called conscience in the pursuit of his own devices and impulsions, it very definitely a highly dangerous personality configuration. Saddam’s personality does not necessarily include loss of control, on the contrary the sufferer will often show control and rationality in a high degree but in the pursuit of his own paranoid needs.
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