Word: poisoner
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Saddam committed his first murder at fourteen. Saddam ordered the execution of 29 children whose parents were political activists. Saddam ordered the genocidal murder with poison gas of 8000 Kurds in the town of Halabja. Saddam kidnapped over 90 members of his own dissident family, and more than 20 have been executed. Saddam executed 600 members of a Shiite opposition group in 1984. To compare Saddam Hussein to the noble Saladin would be a gross affront to Islam. To fail to oppose him would be nothing short of criminal...
Gottwald answered, "Please, Comrade Stalin, anything but that! Under no circumstances should you send Soviet troops into our country. It would poison the well and create impossible difficulties for our own Communist Party...
Iraqi missiles would not have to blow up many of the oil facilities; scattering enough poison gas and anthrax or botulism powder to make it impossible for workers to labor there would also disrupt production. Says a U.S. analyst: "With a shortfall of only 1 million bbl. of oil a day, now the price has gone to $35 ((from $18 before the invasion of Kuwait)). Imagine the impact of the loss of a big portion of Saudi Arabia's 7 million bbl. a day." Conceivably, the price could reach as high as $100, far more than enough to cause both...
...mere commercial rivalry. It is guilty of both the barbaric repression of its own people and the atrocious treatment of outsiders. Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's current manipulation of Western hostages may be stomach-turning, but it reveals only a hint of the ruthlessness he showed in using poison gas against both Iranians and his own Kurdish civilians...
Saddam's wisespread appeal to the Arab masses isn't limited to his his threat to wipe out Israel with poison gas; he is enormously popular for his thuggery against the rich and selfish Arab patricians of Kuwait...