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A Comprehensive Comparison:
Tyrants Through the Ages
Tyrants Through the Ages
This post will be about two of the worst, in my opinion, tyrants in history and 20th century. I'll start with the most modern one to have been taken down. I thinik you all know what I'm talking about...
Saddam Hussien, a tyrant who has most recently been taken down, and it's about time. As with all tyrants of the 20th century, several major mistakes have been made in dealing with him. The worst of which occured in 1992 when we left Iraq and broke a promise made. Not only did Saddam Hussien kill thousands of Kurds and anyone else who rebeled, the Iraqis lost trust in our service men and women. However, he was finally taken down in 2003 in a massive raid against Tikrit. We now have massive support from Iraqis because we are rebuilding what was damaged and/or lost, training Iraqi security forces to take over and trusting them to handle situations, and keeping with our June/July deadline to hand over, at least partial, control to an Iraqi government.
However, why call him a tyrant or even compare him to the worst of all time -- or even place him so high on my list? Let's look at what our troops found as they moved into Iraq. Saddam Hussien was in possession of illegal arms, including SCUDS, when he shouldn't have even had most of his "legal" arms. UN Weapons Inspectors told the world that Saddam Hussien was hiding his WMD, but many (most?) ignored them. Were they there? Yes. Are they there? Some may still be, but I doubt all/most of them remain. Saddam Hussien's own cousin, Hussien Saddam, even told the world that he had a nuclear arms program.
We ignored a threat for more than a decade. What does this remind you of? I'll answer that question with my next tyrant of choice. I have a few more clues for you, however. Saddam Hussien had concentration camps, that some of his tribe called jails, but they caused the same reaction to our troops when we found them as in another war. We were surprised and disgusted at just how bad these "jails" (let's agree to call them concentration camps from now on) were and how similar they were other concentration camps we had found.
Saddam Hussien garnered support from his own tribe through "ethnic" clensing against other Muslim tribes. Tikrit, Baghdad, and other towns his tribe lived in prospered while towns to the north and south were drained in order to support the building of retreats, mansions, and prosperity for Saddam Hussien and his family.
I will now answer my previous question. The name of the next tyrant, and arguably the worst in history, is Adolph Hitler. He was ingnored for a very long time and building up arms where the Treaty of Versailes (sp?) stated that Germany could not build up an army. He built concentration camps to deal with the "Jewish and other minority question" that he outlined in Mein Comph.
Hitler, himself, built retreats and mansions for himself with the money he "procured" by stuffing Jews, Blacks, and other "minorities" into cheap ghettos and concentration camps. Our troops were in shock, surprised and disgusted, when they ran across the first concentration camps. They were even more disgusted when they heard the Red Army found crematoriams in the Eastern Camps.
One very similar trait these two share is a multitude of mental disorders. They were paranoid dillusional, bipolar, dillusional of granduer, and mutliple others that I dare not even try to list.
What is the major difference between these two particular tyrants? Adolph Hitler was a political genious. He was also quite intelligent, though his mental disorders throws that into disarray. He was also not very tactical or militarily minded. Saddam Hussien was a military man. He wasn't very intelligent, but, nontheless, he can't be discounted.
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