{"id":3136,"date":"2023-03-17T08:49:02","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T07:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dictatorbaron.com\/?p=3136"},"modified":"2023-03-17T08:49:02","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T07:49:02","slug":"how-did-the-government-go-after-saddam-hussein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dictatorbaron.com\/how-did-the-government-go-after-saddam-hussein\/","title":{"rendered":"How did the government go after saddam hussein?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The U.S. government went after Saddam Hussein because he was a threat to world peace. He had attacked other countries, used chemical weapons on his own people, and was building nuclear weapons. The U.S. government felt he had to be stopped.<\/p>\n

In the early 1990s, the Iraqi government began a brutal crackdown on any internal dissent, which led to the Gulf War in 1991. The United Nations (UN) imposed economic sanctions on Iraq in an effort to get the government to comply with various UN resolutions. In 2003, a US-led coalition invaded Iraq, arguing that Saddam Hussein’s government was developing weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and was a threat to global security. Saddam Hussein was captured by US forces in December 2003 and was executed by the Iraqi government in 2006.<\/p>\n

Did the US government support Saddam Hussein? <\/h2>\n

The US provided combat planning assistance and battlefield intelligence to Saddam Hussein’s military during the Iran-Iraq War. This included more than 60 US Defense Intelligence Agency officers who provided combat planning assistance, as well as satellite pictures and other intelligence. The US did this in order to prevent Iran from winning the war, as they were viewed as a threat to US interests in the region.<\/p>\n

Saddam Hussein was the President of Iraq from 1979 to 2003. He was overthrown in the 2003 Invasion of Iraq and was later captured and executed.<\/p>\n