Definitions for Saddam
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1. Hussein, Husain, Husayn, Saddam Hussein, Saddam, Saddam bin Hussein at-Takritinoun

   Iraqi leader who waged war against Iran; his invasion of Kuwait led to the Gulf War (born in 1937)

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1. Saddamnoun

   of Arabic usage.

2. Saddamnoun

   Saddam Hussein, Iraqi politician.

3. Etymology: to continuously confront.

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1. Saddam

   Saddam Hussein ( (listen); Arabic: صدام حسين, Mesopotamian Arabic [sˤɐdˈdɑːm ɜħsɪe̯n]; 28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006), known mononymously as Saddam, was an Iraqi politician and dictator who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003. A leading member of the revolutionary Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, and later, the Baghdad-based Ba'ath Party and its regional organization, the Iraqi Ba'ath Party—which espoused Ba'athism, a mix of Arab nationalism, Iraqi nationalism and Arab socialism—Saddam played a key role in the 1968 coup (later referred to as the 17 July Revolution) that brought the party to power in Iraq.: 174 As vice president under the ailing General Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, and at a time when many groups were considered capable of overthrowing the government, Saddam created security forces through which he tightly controlled conflicts between the government and the armed forces. In the early 1970s, Saddam nationalised the Iraq Petroleum Company and independent banks, eventually leaving the banking system insolvent due to inflation and bad loans. Through the 1970s, Saddam consolidated his authority over the apparatus of government as oil money helped Iraq's economy grow rapidly. Positions of power in the country were mostly filled with Sunni Arabs, a minority that made up only a fifth of the population.Saddam formally took power in 1979, although he had already been the de facto head of Iraq for several years. He suppressed several movements, particularly Shi'a and Kurdish movements which sought to overthrow the government or gain independence, respectively, and maintained power during the Iran–Iraq War and the Gulf War. He ran a repressive authoritarian government, which several analysts have described as totalitarian, although the applicability of that label has been contested. Saddam's rule was marked by numerous human rights abuses, including an estimated 250,000 arbitrary killings and bloody invasions of neighboring Iran and Kuwait.In 2003, a coalition led by the United States invaded Iraq to depose Saddam. US President George W. Bush and United Kingdom Prime Minister Tony Blair erroneously accused Iraq of possessing weapons of mass destruction and having ties to al-Qaeda. Saddam's Ba'ath party was disbanded. After his capture on 13 December 2003, the trial of Saddam Hussein took place under the Iraqi Interim Government. On 5 November 2006, Saddam was convicted by an Iraqi court of crimes against humanity related to the 1982 killing of 148 Iraqi Shi'a and sentenced to death by hanging. He was executed on 30 December 2006.

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1. saddam

   Saddam refers to Saddam Hussein, who was the fifth President of Iraq, serving from July 16, 1979 until April 9, 2003. Known for his brutal regime and controversial political strategies, he played a major role in the political dynamics of the Middle East. However, his leadership was marred by violations of human rights, instigation of wars, and the development of weapons of mass destruction, which led to international intervention and his eventual execution in 2006.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Saddam in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Saddam in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of Saddam in a Sentence

1. Lt. Col. (Ret.) Ralph Peters, Interview in American Heritage:

   The shah always falls in the end, Saddam always turns on you, and the Saudis always betray you. If we support evil, the long-term price is almost always too high.

2. Wolf Blitzer:

   It just dawned on me at that point the power here at CNN -- that people were watching us -- friendly viewers in the United States and around the world, but also the Iraqi military and the Iraqi intelligence community -- Saddam Hussein himself was watching CNN.

3. Condoleezza Rice:

   Democracy promotion is not Iraq and Afghanistan, we didn’t go to Iraq to bring democracy. We went to Iraq to defeat Saddam Hussein, who was a security threat.

4. State William Gardner:

   If somebody wants to go out and say that they voted for this person or that person, they can do it. They can do it. But that ballot is sacred, i have a copy of the last ballot that was used when Saddam Hussein was elected. And that ballot identified who the person was. Hitler did the same thing in Austria.

5. David Ibsen:

   Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Quraishi was a former officer in Saddam Husseins army and was considered one of the most prominent ISIS members in Baghdadis circle, after the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq and the capture of Hussein in 2003, Quraishi eventually became a general Sharia jurist for al-Qaeda.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Saddam
3. ^ Wikipedia
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5. ^ Usage in printed sources
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