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
Five - The Mother of All Battles
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
This war [the Gulf War]…was beneficial for us.
– Saddam Hussein, 1993The invasion of Kuwait in August 1990 by Saddam Hussein's Iraq set in motion a long conflict with the United States that ended only in 2003. For Saddam and the Baʾath regime he had controlled since 1979, the invasion would ultimately prove fatal. It ensured that most Iraqis, who were still cherishing the recent end of the Iran-Iraq War, would suffer the deprivations of yet another long war, one that would lead to a third: a destructive civil war. As Saddam later noted, “Being at peace is not easy.”
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- The Saddam TapesThe Inner Workings of a Tyrant's Regime, 1978–2001, pp. 165 - 218Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011