Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Note to Readers
- Dramatis Personae
- Map of Iraq
- Introduction
- One The United States
- Two The “Zionist Entity”
- Three The Arab World
- Four Qadisiyyah Saddam (The Iran-Iraq War)
- Five The Mother of All Battles
- Six Special Munitions
- Seven The Embargo and the Special Commission
- Eight Hussein Kamil
- Epilogue
- Appendix: Timeline
- References
- Index
- References
One - The United States
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Note to Readers
- Dramatis Personae
- Map of Iraq
- Introduction
- One The United States
- Two The “Zionist Entity”
- Three The Arab World
- Four Qadisiyyah Saddam (The Iran-Iraq War)
- Five The Mother of All Battles
- Six Special Munitions
- Seven The Embargo and the Special Commission
- Eight Hussein Kamil
- Epilogue
- Appendix: Timeline
- References
- Index
- References
Summary
Your Excellency…knows that we were raised hating the Americans.
– Letter from Hussein Kamil, 19 February 1996Saddam did not consider the United States a natural adversary.
– Duelfer Report, Central Intelligence AgencyThroughout the 1980s and 1990s, the world looked radically different to decision makers in Baghdad than to their counterparts in Washington, D.C. Saddam Hussein, trying to understand the baffling aspects of U.S. domestic politics, spent countless hours discussing America with his advisers. As he told visiting U.S. senators in April 1990, politicians in America and Iraq “need to know the history of the two countries as to the basic factors related to social, cultural, and political life, because this knowledge is indispensable if one wants to draw the proper conclusions.” For Saddam, America was a “complicated country” with confusing political processes. Despite his efforts to learn, Saddam's beliefs about the United States were frequently grossly inaccurate.
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- The Saddam TapesThe Inner Workings of a Tyrant's Regime, 1978–2001, pp. 16 - 58Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011