@victornewman-jc6lp Our guy was very educated and said Saddam was richer than the Royal Family. I'd imagine greater worth than $25 billion in the 90s, just a guess.
I remember seeing photos of his gold toilets and a picture of an American soldier slidding down a gold banister after he'd fallen and the US seized his property lmao. No one should be able to afford a golden throne lol.
@@butters1273I would assume he def would’ve been as rich as Amado Carrillo Fuentes (Drug lord of the Juarez Cartel) which is about 20-30 billion dollars… I seen something that they were the 2 richest men of the 90’s
@@jordanmince7613there’s nothing to defend. The man was a monstrous dictator and the people of the Middle East majorly deserve no love... Look up “Bachi Blazi” otherwise known as “Boy Play” and tell me with a straight face they are “good” people...
Correction I’m an Iraqi who lived under saddam, we did not and were not starving under his rule. However we were in constant danger of being executed or jailed and tortured if we accidentally said anything that didn’t praise the Bathist regime. And we only had 2 tv channels one for the news and propaganda and one created by his son uday which had music and tv shows and movies. No one was allowed to have internet or satellite dishes. Any one who attempted to install a dish would get visited by the secret police and he would not have a good time. We had a shortage of medicine, and everyone had to carry a gun incase you get robbed by street thugs, not to mention our power would go out everyday for 3-4 hours or more and then they’d turn it back on. And there was always the occasional cruise missiles raining down on us by the U.S. police would pull you over to get a bribe. And everything revolved around praising saddam and the regime. What I’m saying doesn’t even scratch the surface. My family and I left Iraq in 1999 lived for one year in the U.A.E and came to America and been living in America ever since I was 12. I’m a Roman Catholic born that way. The Iraqi Muslims were very tolerant because saddam protected Christian’s but I’d still get the occasional knife to my throat trying to force me to convert which I would refuse. Where I lived in the U.A.E was extremely intolerant of Christians which gave me an extremely tough school year as no one wanted to be my friend and I wouldn’t be allowed to sit on the bus sometimes because I was the only non Muslim in my entire school and they’d try to get me to convert everyday
I don’t know if you are being delusional or your family had it better than others but more than a million child died of malnutrition in the 90s so we were definitely starving💀
The amount of wealth Saddam Hussein had is crazy to say the least. He honestly rivaled a James Bond villain, the last thing that missed was having an outlandish plan. Thank you once again Simple History. By the way the thumbnail is fantastic to look at.
Well, he did have an outlandish plan. His invasion of Kuwait. He was also of course chased by the CIA. All of them together definitely make him a Bond villain.
Yeah he really was also other plans he had was a nuclear power plant which Israel blasted with it's air force and also building a super gun. Anyway really could read up on that.
During the War in Iraq, when Saddam was ousted, I had a second cousin who was in the US Army back in 2003, he was outside of Saddam's Palace as he carried a Golden Dragunov rifle.
When I was deployed to Iraq, we spent a week at BIAP. While there we visited a retreat belong to one of Saddam's sons, I think Uday, and saw one of their luxury cars. The guys that arrived ahead of us claimed to have nickle plated AK-47s and Draganov rifles. My unit also seized a pallet of money, I wasn't there at the time, consisting stacks of $100 notes. Yeah. A lot of that went 'missing.' The one thing that surprised me about Iraq was their highway system. It's designed pretty much like our own in the US, with on and off ramps in clover formations, overpasses, and even the sign designs and colors are the same. Except over there it's written in both English and Arabic, and the mileage is in kilometers.
I believe that the idea of the expressways that were implemented in the early eighties came from advice from Western experts to facilitate the transport of military equipment and goods during the Iran-Iraq war, especially linking Iraq with Jordan, reaching the port of Aqaba, due to its logistical importance during the war, and linking the north of the country with its center and south with wide international expressways to facilitate the transport of military units between the battlefronts with Iran.
I actually know his cousin personally-he’s my neighbor. One time, he showed me a bank account under his name in Jordan with 450 million dollars. He also told me that a member of Saddam Hussein’s family had more than 70 tons of gold, jewelry, and ancient archaeological treasures buried somewhere, and to this day, no one knows where they are except for this person who now lives in Dubai.
I was in Iraq in 04-05 and Golden Plated Aks were all the rage back then. Most of them were given to Ba'ath Party Officials and Loyalist. Tons of Saddam Hussein Posters and Propaganda Paintings were still up albeit riddled with bullet holes or crosses over. I got a chance to go to Camp Baharia also known as Dreamland. It was a resort for Uday Qusay Hussien and they spared no expense. Even after we occupied it was still pretty impressive how good they had it
@@seanemery1917compared to modern Iraqi goverment (basicaly Iran rules over Iraq now), Saddam and Uday are saints, but still Iraqis do hate saddam and uday, you got non iraqi (r3ta1ds) who praise them
I’m a British Army reservist, several of my senior rank friends served in the Iraq war. Some were amongst the first coalition troops to enter Saddam’s palace after the fall of Baghdad. One, now a retired WO1 had taken his honourary field marshal rank slide which he kept for the rest of his army career. Another ignored the silverware in the kitchens but took a container of instant coffee, which he claimed was the best he had ever tasted, a brand he’s never seen again.
You think anyone believes what British people say ? Literally the entire Indian subcontinent still consider you people thieves and uncivilised. Even the hindus still admire the mughals and not the British. No one in the world believes you son.
"one would like to be both the one and the other but because it is difficult to combine them it is far better to be feared than loved if you cannot be both"- Machiavelli
Didn’t they find roughly 5,000 chemical weapons I remember reading that troops were exposed to chemical weapons which resulted in a number of deaths not sure how many exactly
"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? - Mark 8: 36-37. These verses sadly depict the life of Saddam Hussein.
@@Alanboss777 You mean every ruler or emperor who claimed to be a "Christian" for their own personal gain. I highly doubt those people were Christ followers.
You should make a video about the sick man that is uday Saddam Hussain He killed multiple people at parties One time a general snitch on his actions to his dad and uday proceeded to rape the general wife in front of him before shooting them both He also created al Rashid club and forced other iraqi clubs to give their best players to his club And he tortured the 1990 iraqi team for not qualifying for the world cup
Except Saddam's sons were sadistic psychopaths especially Uday. Stalin's children fared differently. His son, Vasily, was a drunk with mental difficulties and his daughter, Svetlana, spent years in exile denouncing both her father and the regime after his death.
And then he wound up hiding in a dirt hole dirty with nothing & was being hunted like an animal. The things you do in life will always come back to haunt you. Justice served.
هل انتم حمقى تصدقون سيناريو وخدعة بوش الصغير الذي احتل العراق بحجج كاذبه الذي يكذب ويزعم بوجود اسلحة دمار، ليس من الصعب ان يكذب ويخلق فيلم صغير خدعة الحفره.وانتم سذج اذا كان صدام حسين ثري للغاية لماذا لم يهرب خارج البلاد او يوافق على ذهابه للمنفى اذا كان يعشق كرسيه ونفسه،!!
Besides the giant Al Mansur, Saddam also had a river yacht called the Al Qadisiyah. It was like a miniature version of the Al Mansur. It was destroyed back in ‘91 during the Gulf War.
Iraq was not comfortable in the past, nor in the present, and I do not think it will be in the future. I think I am unlucky because I was born in a country like this. I always blame my family for this matter. The matter is more complicated than what is presented in the media. Iraq is being looted by all sides and neighboring countries, and it has not even been spared from Arab countries or even from the Iraqis themselves. I think that whoever reads my words will think that I am dramatic or like to complain, but I suffer from several psychological disorders because I have been following politics and the news since I was young. But at the same time, I believe that this is a test and this is written, and everyone who harmed Iraq will be held accountable. If the reckoning is not in this world, it will be in the afterlife. I do not know whether I love this country or hate it? My feelings are mixed.
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Well, as an Iraqi, this man destroyed his people. When they found out that someone had spoken poorly about Saddam, they killed him in front of his family and made them pay for the bullet; My mother told me that her friend in school accidentally said that her father hated Saddam shortly after soldiers came to this girl family and killed them all.
@@hidartalal8726America helped destroy your people also for money, and if you don’t think so. I think you fell victim to that classic American propaganda
Now see yourself Iraq now. More disaster than before. Terrorist everywhere there. Iraq more better under Saddam but now Iraq is nothing more like Harvard university for terrorist. People killing each other, economy collapse.
Not surprised at all the Saddam supporters in the comments. Do you know how evil this guy was? He overthrew his cousin in a coup and had his son-in-law killed. He killed his cousin/brother in law. He cheated on his wife!! He gassed his own people FFS.
Dictators, often perceived as evil, may not have tolerated being mocked in their youth. They are likely deeply troubled individuals who endured difficult childhoods and possibly became fearful of facing further adversity. Their luxurious lifestyles could suggest a desire to avoid rejection and the fear of failing in life.
@@MagnumLoadedTractor I was kind of thinking about the saying "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" when I wrote that comment yesterday. Do I dislike Saddam for his genocide that in little or no way has affected me? Sure, but his enemies are alive today and they are actively working against "people like me" for their own benefit. Thus I cannot bring myself to truly hate him, no matter the despicable actions against his own people. For they do not affect me as much as other things. Sure, what I just said probably sounds harsh to most people, but so is life, and I'm tired of lying to myself.
Americans why did you Invade Iraq: because Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Americans why don’t you invade Russia: are you crazy Russia has weapons of mass destruction 🤯
If I were a dictator I would be like Julius Caesar. I would help the poor while still enjoying my fortune but not to an excess like most dictators. I would want the people to love me.
1) Being a dictator means always being hated for obvious and good reasons. 2) Good luck with that, there'll always be people who hate you, there's absolutely no way to rule without having some people behind your back and some people against you.
My dad was part of first wave of Marines who invaded Iraq in 2003. He was involved in radio communications and at some point the unit he was in camped at one of Saddam's palaces. He likes to talk about how crazy it looked there and how the Marines roamed around the compound gazing at all of the stuff that had been left behind and the opulence of the place. His time there was also notable because he and the other guys were exposed to a burnpit where they were told to throw unwanted military hardware into a pyre and unfortunately a frag was unknownly tossed in along with the junk and it exploded, wounding another marine
A man who wanted to restore Babylon going so far to rebuild old palaces of Mesopotamian history including Nebuchadnezzar’s palace. What’s ironic is that he did absolutely nothing to improve his people but he did help himself and his family whereas the average Iraqi got squat. People forget that Saddam was a blood thirsty psychopath that had no regard for the sanctity of human life. I’d say he was the devil in human form.
Iraqi here, yup all of it is pretty much true Surprised you haven’t also covered his dastardly son’s stuff Ngl the animations are pretty funny 😂 but they might give the audience a heavily exaggerated look at the whole thing Glad you covered the Al-khuld hall event at the beginning. It was pretty much a prelude to what was to come from him And to address the elephant in the room No I don’t like saddam and real iraqis wouldn’t want him or any of his bath party goons back in office. Not saying the current government and state of affairs is any better, but here’s the thing that most people fail to understand, NONE ARE GOOD, neither saddam and those before him nor the government
I’m a mostly a centrist, religion-wise, as a muslim I would want sharia law (it’s not what it sounds like or what you have heard in the media) but with people that apply it correctly and with full integrity. Economics..well anything none-communist cuz history shows that it is a terrible economic system
Saddams palaces are grand. But according to one defector in a documentary who was a personal guard to Kim Jong Il, the palaces of the Kim’s in North Korea make them look bland by comparison.
I also doubt, since North Korea even today has a GDP of just 29 billion dollars. The Kim family could not afford to have such a large amount of palaces.
@@noobplays-saslow2920 If they had a GDP of 29 billion they would be the richest country to ever exist. You maybe meant million but that's still not very low I think.
@@Swagmaster07 I have a feeling you don't speak english natively. (I don't either but you probably don't have a very good grasp of the english language). North Korea definitely has a GDP of 29 billion. That is a fairly low GDP. Sweden has as GDP of 591 billion. Even if you don't grasp english very well, how did you possibly come to the conclusion that 29 mllion in GDP is not very low? Somalia as a hilarious comparison has 10 billion (which is horribly low) LMAO... I feel like you don't know how many zeros make up a billion, a trillion etc. In europe where I'm from, a "milliard" equals to a billion, whereas our next step which is billion, is actually trillion etc. Surely this is what you mean?
They were looking for WMDs or in other words chemical, biological or nuclear weapons and they found literal thousands of chemical and biological weapons and even a little enriched uranium I mean multiple people died from being exposed to them
So telling that a person was, in fact, a corrupt and incompetent leader, is propaganda? I wonder how exposing his lifestyle is connected to WMDs. Oh right, there is none.
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Not saying he was a good guy far from it he was a narcissist, bully, and evil but we should have never had him removed. Iraq is a s show now after the power vacuum left.
Here is a fact, when Hussein realised he was beaten, he ordered millions of cash from the Central Bank of Iraq to be taken out est to be about almost 1 billion. That month, a handwritten note signed by Saddam Hussein surfaced, ordering $920 million to be withdrawn and given to his son Qusay Hussein. Bank officials state that Qusay and another unidentified man oversaw the cash, boxes of $100 bills secured with stamped seals known as security money, being loaded into trucks and trailers during a five-hour operation. This was considered the largest bank heist in history until 2011. Qusay Hussein was later killed by the U.S. 101st Airborne Division in a battle. Some of the money was found in one of Hussein's palaces. The others were never found. The heist is technically not a crime per se as Hussein is a dictator & the money could be his own personal funds.
Lol if he didn’t attack Iran, Iran would be expanding their revolution to Iraq and the rest of the Arab world, however if you look at Iraq today it is being controlled under Iranian influence and also look at Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, they all have Iranian influence in their country.
@@sleepyjoescumbag1663 Like Canada, Denmark, Switzerland, Australia, Czech Republic, Finland, Estonia, New Zealand? It's not like immigrants are flocking to those places in their millions or anything.
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What is the life of luxury of Diem in the south Vietnam during the Vietnam war period.
@Simplehistory yo can we do more stuff about the Luxurious lifestyle of communist dictators
Not more than Gaddafi 😮
tell something about american crimes in the world
نحن نحب صدام حسين ❤
Our translator in Baghdad told us, "Saddam's wealth was always underestimated by the news. He was FAR richer than some of the worlds richest."
How rich do you think he was?
@victornewman-jc6lp Our guy was very educated and said Saddam was richer than the Royal Family. I'd imagine greater worth than $25 billion in the 90s, just a guess.
I remember seeing photos of his gold toilets and a picture of an American soldier slidding down a gold banister after he'd fallen and the US seized his property lmao. No one should be able to afford a golden throne lol.
@@Onora619 that's INSANE!
@@butters1273I would assume he def would’ve been as rich as Amado Carrillo Fuentes (Drug lord of the Juarez Cartel) which is about 20-30 billion dollars… I seen something that they were the 2 richest men of the 90’s
"A hard day's dictatoring" that made me chuckle 😂
Every day I'm dictating
Real. Lol
Ok white
Sadddam hussein never kill their own people why simple history spreading rumours 😡
Wow shame on youtuber for deleting my comment because im showing the truth 😂
I saw it in 2003 in Iraq. This guy lived LARGE. He loved his American candy bars.
He enjoyed American bars also 😂😂
Where you in the palace
@@بوطارق-ث5جand ti.t.i.es also.
When he was being held for his trial, his guards said he was obsessed with nacho cheese doritos.
his fav american Candy was Bounty to be exact...
Then the Americans arrived and the gold disappeared
Actually it’s sitting in Iraqi bank vaults. However Kuwaiti gold was returned to Kuwait.
@@MattMerica76oh the american defender
@@MattMerica76 source?
@@JoshJones-37334Goggle maybe? Just maybe?
@@jordanmince7613there’s nothing to defend. The man was a monstrous dictator and the people of the Middle East majorly deserve no love...
Look up “Bachi Blazi” otherwise known as “Boy Play” and tell me with a straight face they are “good” people...
Correction I’m an Iraqi who lived under saddam, we did not and were not starving under his rule.
However we were in constant danger of being executed or jailed and tortured if we accidentally said anything that didn’t praise the Bathist regime. And we only had 2 tv channels one for the news and propaganda and one created by his son uday which had music and tv shows and movies.
No one was allowed to have internet or satellite dishes. Any one who attempted to install a dish would get visited by the secret police and he would not have a good time.
We had a shortage of medicine, and everyone had to carry a gun incase you get robbed by street thugs, not to mention our power would go out everyday for 3-4 hours or more and then they’d turn it back on. And there was always the occasional cruise missiles raining down on us by the U.S. police would pull you over to get a bribe. And everything revolved around praising saddam and the regime. What I’m saying doesn’t even scratch the surface.
My family and I left Iraq in 1999 lived for one year in the U.A.E and came to America and been living in America ever since I was 12. I’m a Roman Catholic born that way. The Iraqi Muslims were very tolerant because saddam protected Christian’s but I’d still get the occasional knife to my throat trying to force me to convert which I would refuse. Where I lived in the U.A.E was extremely intolerant of Christians which gave me an extremely tough school year as no one wanted to be my friend and I wouldn’t be allowed to sit on the bus sometimes because I was the only non Muslim in my entire school and they’d try to get me to convert everyday
Wow very fascinating story. Glad to hear you are safe now!
@@RicardoSanchez-es5wl thank you I appreciate it.
@@wisam111 Im a Muslim im sorry what you had to go through hope you feel safe now
@@yeetme2805 thank you I appreciate it. When I came to America I’ve been safe and had some Muslim friends. It was just that area I was in.
I don’t know if you are being delusional or your family had it better than others but more than a million child died of malnutrition in the 90s so we were definitely starving💀
The amount of wealth Saddam Hussein had is crazy to say the least. He honestly rivaled a James Bond villain, the last thing that missed was having an outlandish plan. Thank you once again Simple History. By the way the thumbnail is fantastic to look at.
Well, he did have an outlandish plan. His invasion of Kuwait. He was also of course chased by the CIA. All of them together definitely make him a Bond villain.
Yeah he really was also other plans he had was a nuclear power plant which Israel blasted with it's air force and also building a super gun. Anyway really could read up on that.
Yeah, for sure
It seemed pointlessly lavish tbh.
During the War in Iraq, when Saddam was ousted, I had a second cousin who was in the US Army back in 2003, he was outside of Saddam's Palace as he carried a Golden Dragunov rifle.
Ah. The spoils of war your cousin must have thought.
us army thief
When I was deployed to Iraq, we spent a week at BIAP. While there we visited a retreat belong to one of Saddam's sons, I think Uday, and saw one of their luxury cars. The guys that arrived ahead of us claimed to have nickle plated AK-47s and Draganov rifles. My unit also seized a pallet of money, I wasn't there at the time, consisting stacks of $100 notes. Yeah. A lot of that went 'missing.'
The one thing that surprised me about Iraq was their highway system. It's designed pretty much like our own in the US, with on and off ramps in clover formations, overpasses, and even the sign designs and colors are the same. Except over there it's written in both English and Arabic, and the mileage is in kilometers.
As an Iraqi myself, I can confirm that highway part
Could the car in question be a yellow ferrari testarossa?
How much was stuff stolen by troops in Iraq worth? I hear stuff like rugs, utensils and gold sold for huge profits if they weren't stashed in an attic
I believe that the idea of the expressways that were implemented in the early eighties came from advice from Western experts to facilitate the transport of military equipment and goods during the Iran-Iraq war, especially linking Iraq with Jordan, reaching the port of Aqaba, due to its logistical importance during the war, and linking the north of the country with its center and south with wide international expressways to facilitate the transport of military units between the battlefronts with Iran.
@@Bar8-6ar8i assure you, they were implemented way before the 80s
"measly 2 billion dollars"
Bro, I read your comment as soon as he said it
What a peasant.
Same @@aboya7ia56
damn, wont be able to build his 67th palace
Poor baby😢
I actually know his cousin personally-he’s my neighbor. One time, he showed me a bank account under his name in Jordan with 450 million dollars. He also told me that a member of Saddam Hussein’s family had more than 70 tons of gold, jewelry, and ancient archaeological treasures buried somewhere, and to this day, no one knows where they are except for this person who now lives in Dubai.
His daughter and granddaughter i think
Who was he any name
That’s insane if true
In one of his palaces $600 million worth of gold bullion was found and in another room there was $700 million in cash.
Bro are you for reel
Saddam Hussein was the Kim kardashians of the 90s.
Say what?
Keeping up with the Husseins 💀
How so?
@@Se7enBeatleofDoom Blud you sexualizing Saddam?
He was the Joe Biden of the Middle East.... 'The Big Guy' with the money but nobody really knows where it came from.
I was in Iraq in 04-05 and Golden Plated Aks were all the rage back then. Most of them were given to Ba'ath Party Officials and Loyalist. Tons of Saddam Hussein Posters and Propaganda Paintings were still up albeit riddled with bullet holes or crosses over.
I got a chance to go to Camp Baharia also known as Dreamland. It was a resort for Uday Qusay Hussien and they spared no expense. Even after we occupied it was still pretty impressive how good they had it
Weapons of mass destruction. I think that was disproved.
His son Uday lived in more luxury but goddamn he made Saddam look like a Saint!
And the messed up part is, people admire Saddam and his sons now these days
Not his sons@@seanemery1917
@@seanemery1917compared to modern Iraqi goverment (basicaly Iran rules over Iraq now), Saddam and Uday are saints, but still Iraqis do hate saddam and uday, you got non iraqi (r3ta1ds) who praise them
No lmfao 💀@@fahidlangs9266
I’m a British Army reservist, several of my senior rank friends served in the Iraq war. Some were amongst the first coalition troops to enter Saddam’s palace after the fall of Baghdad. One, now a retired WO1 had taken his honourary field marshal rank slide which he kept for the rest of his army career. Another ignored the silverware in the kitchens but took a container of instant coffee, which he claimed was the best he had ever tasted, a brand he’s never seen again.
You think anyone believes what British people say ? Literally the entire Indian subcontinent still consider you people thieves and uncivilised. Even the hindus still admire the mughals and not the British. No one in the world believes you son.
And I’m sure you lied in your comment too..since you’re a British 😂
Where was the weapons of mass destruction
In the bunker
I'm your mom's bedroom
It's fortune I guess
Buried in multiple locations across Iraq
@@MattMerica76any source on this?
the oil rig lighter killed me 0:39
Hot shots part deux
"one would like to be both the one and the other but because it is difficult to combine them it is far better to be feared than loved if you cannot be both"- Machiavelli
He also mentioned a caveat of being resented while feared isn't also the way to go.
Yeah, but conventional wisdom would have taught Machiavelli that if you live by the sword, die by the sword.
Maybe Lee KY of Singapore can fall into both loved and feared. I would add respected as well
Weapons of mass destruction m, righttttt 💀
Google Iraqs Chemical Weapons program
I'm pretty sure it's a chocolate chip factory
Didn’t they find roughly 5,000 chemical weapons I remember reading that troops were exposed to chemical weapons which resulted in a number of deaths not sure how many exactly
He did have chemical weapons. Haven’t you ever done any research on the Iran-Iraq war?
@@zekofirez39Research about who give that all chemical weapons to Saddam.
"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? - Mark 8: 36-37. These verses sadly depict the life of Saddam Hussein.
And every Christian ruler or emperor
@@Alanboss777 You mean every ruler or emperor who claimed to be a "Christian" for their own personal gain. I highly doubt those people were Christ followers.
@@frenchfan3368 barely any ruler ruled for his people and not his desires
I'm mot even a Christian and this is so ture
You should make a video about the sick man that is uday Saddam Hussain
He killed multiple people at parties
One time a general snitch on his actions to his dad and uday proceeded to rape the general wife in front of him before shooting them both
He also created al Rashid club and forced other iraqi clubs to give their best players to his club
And he tortured the 1990 iraqi team for not qualifying for the world cup
Uday The Son?
@@Ahmed_Omar_The_Dumbass yes the son of saddam
Man, as an Iraqi, I could say Saddam was the equivalent of Stalin but the Iraqi version
Except Saddam's sons were sadistic psychopaths especially Uday. Stalin's children fared differently. His son, Vasily, was a drunk with mental difficulties and his daughter, Svetlana, spent years in exile denouncing both her father and the regime after his death.
@@alexiaNBC yes
Both had no personal wealth
Saddam not as well read
Is this true? Are you real Iraqi?
"Even though he couldn't swim"?
Have you seen him swimming in Dijla river in 90s ? It's available here in youtube, bro!
REALLY?!
It just goes to show that a poor peasant is just as capable of greedy evil as people born with a silver spoon.
Avarice
When you're born hungry, you crave the world.
The Kim family live in luxury at the cost of its people
Many dictators do. PolPot, the Kim Dynasty, Fidel Castro, etc, they all live(d) lavishly while their people suffered.
@@MatthewEdwards-v1m It’s in the Despot’s Handbook, if one existed.
@@MatthewEdwards-v1mFidel Castro living luxuriously while his people are suffering? What were you smoking fam
@@MatthewEdwards-v1mAdd to that Mohammed bin Salman
@@MatthewEdwards-v1m castro... their people suffered ... they shoud thank usa for that.
When the video says "The usual" about Uday shooting 3 people at a party, this video isn't lying, in fact this was probably one of his "good" days.
It's poetic that the guy was reduced to living in a shack when the Americans came knocking
America, hate immigration but 99.9 percent are from an immigrant family. Go figure.
Wasn't it described as a "rat hole"?
I don't know why you guys believe the marines sharade
@@TheOneManWhoBeatYouyes a small bunker / shelter kind of a hole in the ground
@@TheOneManWhoBeatYou spider hole
And then he wound up hiding in a dirt hole dirty with nothing & was being hunted like an animal. The things you do in life will always come back to haunt you. Justice served.
“I am the Prime Minister of Canada! I can do whatever I…uh-oh! Uhhhh, don’t mind that gai hiding on the spider hole. He’s just my fwiend!”
Divine Justice
Lol
هل انتم حمقى تصدقون سيناريو وخدعة بوش الصغير الذي احتل العراق بحجج كاذبه الذي يكذب ويزعم بوجود اسلحة دمار، ليس من الصعب ان يكذب ويخلق فيلم صغير خدعة الحفره.وانتم سذج اذا كان صدام حسين ثري للغاية لماذا لم يهرب خارج البلاد او يوافق على ذهابه للمنفى اذا كان يعشق كرسيه ونفسه،!!
and the gold suddenly disappered with the oil lol
Besides the giant Al Mansur, Saddam also had a river yacht called the Al Qadisiyah. It was like a miniature version of the Al Mansur. It was destroyed back in ‘91 during the Gulf War.
Correction:
Saddam was actually a good swimmer ..
And yes he was a brutal dictator.. my people had been suffering under his rule for decades
Iraq was not comfortable in the past, nor in the present, and I do not think it will be in the future. I think I am unlucky because I was born in a country like this. I always blame my family for this matter. The matter is more complicated than what is presented in the media. Iraq is being looted by all sides and neighboring countries, and it has not even been spared from Arab countries or even from the Iraqis themselves. I think that whoever reads my words will think that I am dramatic or like to complain, but I suffer from several psychological disorders because I have been following politics and the news since I was young. But at the same time, I believe that this is a test and this is written, and everyone who harmed Iraq will be held accountable. If the reckoning is not in this world, it will be in the afterlife. I do not know whether I love this country or hate it? My feelings are mixed.
He actually could swim, this video has in accurate descriptions. Saddam swam the Tigris river when he was shot and escaped during the 1960s coup
I never knew when there would be a full video about Saddam Hussein! But here we are now! Keep up the good work❤❤❤
Make a video about pelosi, Biden, clintons
Fauci
Then explain T****’s golden toilet
Trump and Epstein
bushes:D
That sneaky snake known as Mike Johnson
The oil rig lighter in the beginning killed me 😂
Nice little references to Hot Shots and Hot Shots Part Deux.
I caught that, too!!
The Top Gun parody movie? I don't think it really had any significant references after watching it.
Great video! I have been watching your content for just over a year now, and I never miss a new Video. Somthing that I would like to see of is Vietnam war content. Keep up the great work!
Well, as an Iraqi, this man destroyed his people. When they found out that someone had spoken poorly about Saddam, they killed him in front of his family and made them pay for the bullet; My mother told me that her friend in school accidentally said that her father hated Saddam shortly after soldiers came to this girl family and killed them all.
Is this true? Are you real Iraqi?
@@chlorophyll6154 yeah
@@hidartalal8726America helped destroy your people also for money, and if you don’t think so. I think you fell victim to that classic American propaganda
@@hidartalal8726 أحلى الناس حبي
Now see yourself Iraq now. More disaster than before. Terrorist everywhere there. Iraq more better under Saddam but now Iraq is nothing more like Harvard university for terrorist. People killing each other, economy collapse.
True story; first time I tested cake in my life was at a Saddam’s birthday party😂
Should do one on the western long term politicians lifestyles
0:40 Lighting a cigar with a minutare oil flare stack lol love the little details
The yacht sounds like something out of James Bond. The minsub and the missile turrets.
Not surprised at all the Saddam supporters in the comments. Do you know how evil this guy was? He overthrew his cousin in a coup and had his son-in-law killed. He killed his cousin/brother in law. He cheated on his wife!! He gassed his own people FFS.
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The US army actually found WMDs in Iraq: themselves.
Dictators, often perceived as evil, may not have tolerated being mocked in their youth. They are likely deeply troubled individuals who endured difficult childhoods and possibly became fearful of facing further adversity. Their luxurious lifestyles could suggest a desire to avoid rejection and the fear of failing in life.
Your home looks so cozy! I need some of your home styling tips.
From gold toilets and bathroom chandeliers to dirt spider holes and trash can dinners, of what use was his power and wealth?
golden skibidoal toilet
Divine justice for his gluttony?
@@MagnumLoadedTractor Then where is the divine justice for the cee o nists? When will it come?
@@Mere-Lachaiselongue That's a topic for another time and remember hate the army and the government not the people
@@MagnumLoadedTractor I was kind of thinking about the saying "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" when I wrote that comment yesterday. Do I dislike Saddam for his genocide that in little or no way has affected me? Sure, but his enemies are alive today and they are actively working against "people like me" for their own benefit. Thus I cannot bring myself to truly hate him, no matter the despicable actions against his own people. For they do not affect me as much as other things.
Sure, what I just said probably sounds harsh to most people, but so is life, and I'm tired of lying to myself.
What really makes a brilliant mad man, is if he knows when to stop, move away and change his look and papers
Americans why did you Invade Iraq: because Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
Americans why don’t you invade Russia: are you crazy Russia has weapons of mass destruction 🤯
If I were a dictator I would be like Julius Caesar. I would help the poor while still enjoying my fortune but not to an excess like most dictators. I would want the people to love me.
1) Being a dictator means always being hated for obvious and good reasons.
2) Good luck with that, there'll always be people who hate you, there's absolutely no way to rule without having some people behind your back and some people against you.
That's such a naïve comment.
You know he was rich when he was having a golden Aventador that came out 5 years after his death.
at 8:14 you say he couldnt swim, even though he was a very skilled swimmer, and almost swam daily in the tigris river
My dad was part of first wave of Marines who invaded Iraq in 2003. He was involved in radio communications and at some point the unit he was in camped at one of Saddam's palaces. He likes to talk about how crazy it looked there and how the Marines roamed around the compound gazing at all of the stuff that had been left behind and the opulence of the place.
His time there was also notable because he and the other guys were exposed to a burnpit where they were told to throw unwanted military hardware into a pyre and unfortunately a frag was unknownly tossed in along with the junk and it exploded, wounding another marine
Is the white house a dumb?? Is camp david a shot hole??
A man who wanted to restore Babylon going so far to rebuild old palaces of Mesopotamian history including Nebuchadnezzar’s palace. What’s ironic is that he did absolutely nothing to improve his people but he did help himself and his family whereas the average Iraqi got squat. People forget that Saddam was a blood thirsty psychopath that had no regard for the sanctity of human life. I’d say he was the devil in human form.
Yup. Saddam's behavior was typical for that of dictators and despots. They only care about me, myself and I.
No. He's not the devil. But he did date the actual devil in South Park. They had an on and off relationship.
Ok, now you're making Saddam sound pretty cool.
I laughed when the narrator sarcastically remarked “you know, the usual” 😂
We're getting a Saddam Hussein video before GTA VI
No way
Pretty desperate, eh?
There should be a mod in GTA VI to play as Saddam Hussein
@@olg7483no
Bruh. Rockstar is taking their time to make a masterpiece, unless we want a Cyberpunk 2077 during release situation all over again.
Informative
Iraqi here, yup all of it is pretty much true
Surprised you haven’t also covered his dastardly son’s stuff
Ngl the animations are pretty funny 😂 but they might give the audience a heavily exaggerated look at the whole thing
Glad you covered the Al-khuld hall event at the beginning. It was pretty much a prelude to what was to come from him
And to address the elephant in the room
No I don’t like saddam and real iraqis wouldn’t want him or any of his bath party goons back in office. Not saying the current government and state of affairs is any better, but here’s the thing that most people fail to understand, NONE ARE GOOD, neither saddam and those before him nor the government
What sort of goverment would you want in charge, Sumerian bro?
@@sandran17 be more specific
@@Iraqi_TopG like, religion wise, economics wise, left, right?
I’m a mostly a centrist, religion-wise, as a muslim I would want sharia law (it’s not what it sounds like or what you have heard in the media) but with people that apply it correctly and with full integrity. Economics..well anything none-communist cuz history shows that it is a terrible economic system
@@Iraqi_TopG don't worry, I did ask. That's cool
As an American, whose family is from Iraq, I know for a fact that him and other Arabian leaders are far wealthier than anyone in Forbes magazine
When are you gonna make a video on the Parachute Regiment or Royal Marines Command units? please
5:07 Do I detect a homage to Elmer Fudd? Shhh, be very quiet, I'm hunting rabbit.
“Heheheheheh!”
The Iraqi flag shown on the limousine at 6:07 is incorrect, that flag was only adopted several years after the 2003 invasion.
What a refreshingly unbiased take
Has the USA found the WMDs yet? 😩
They were found years ago Buried in various locations across Iraq
White trailer trash found them in Paradise, Arizona.
Yeah. It just took them a while because they had to erase the fact that they themselves had helped Saddam to build it.
@@MattMerica76lmfao!! The things yall say! 😂
who cares?
Donald Trump Sr is the American version of Saddam. Of course Trump's sons Don Jr and Eric are also like Uday and Qusay.
Not at all.
Perfectly timed for the Black Ops 6 release
The Hamas leader that was killed by Israel was worth $5b while his people and foot soldiers was dying
Sources?
not defending the guys but all the palaces was not written in his name they were owned by the ( president position )
Saddam can swim 8:05. There is a video of him swimming in Tigris river.
My church pastor, who is also my friends dad, was in the US Army and took part in the 2003 Iraq War. He got to stay in one of Saddam's palaces.
0:33 68 in total who were called out & taken to prison. Out of the 68, 22 were executed, 5 were members of the revolutionary council
you are aware that that phone gets done in 1 second
Not for nothing but Iraq was wayyyy better off with him as dictator . Now the country is ruled by religion and the people are so much more oppressed.
ahhh dude i swear your words are goldddd
So... Why is he not red?
0:40 the oil rig lighter from the movie hot shot 2
7:13 , that is featured in black ops 6
Oh yeah, I played that game! It was cool! 👌
Saddams palaces are grand. But according to one defector in a documentary who was a personal guard to Kim Jong Il, the palaces of the Kim’s in North Korea make them look bland by comparison.
I highly doubt that. Iraq is literally a sea of oil underneath....North Korea got squat.
I also doubt, since North Korea even today has a GDP of just 29 billion dollars. The Kim family could not afford to have such a large amount of palaces.
@@mr.cookie7308 North Korea got China.
@@noobplays-saslow2920 If they had a GDP of 29 billion they would be the richest country to ever exist. You maybe meant million but that's still not very low I think.
@@Swagmaster07 I have a feeling you don't speak english natively. (I don't either but you probably don't have a very good grasp of the english language). North Korea definitely has a GDP of 29 billion. That is a fairly low GDP. Sweden has as GDP of 591 billion. Even if you don't grasp english very well, how did you possibly come to the conclusion that 29 mllion in GDP is not very low? Somalia as a hilarious comparison has 10 billion (which is horribly low) LMAO... I feel like you don't know how many zeros make up a billion, a trillion etc. In europe where I'm from, a "milliard" equals to a billion, whereas our next step which is billion, is actually trillion etc. Surely this is what you mean?
7:20 What weapons of mass destruction ???? Nothing was found 😐
He is also a former CIA agent who literally executed the Iraqi sultan royalists.
The CIA trained him to fight in a coup in his 20s. That’s it.
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Cool propaganda. Lets talk about what US did to IRAQ for the nuclear weapons they never found "And never even been there"
They were looking for WMDs or in other words chemical, biological or nuclear weapons and they found literal thousands of chemical and biological weapons and even a little enriched uranium I mean multiple people died from being exposed to them
@@Germain-ys8zz I’m glad the middle school made “literal” your vocabulary word, little buddy
@@JoshJones-37334 I’m so glad that you are so full of propaganda that you aren’t willing to even look at the evidence in your face
So telling that a person was, in fact, a corrupt and incompetent leader, is propaganda?
I wonder how exposing his lifestyle is connected to WMDs. Oh right, there is none.
The ones used on the Kurds Iranians and religious minorities
Seeing a video centered around his dad instead of him angered Uday, who flew into a rage.
No wonder he's in South Park movie.
And got killed by 4 kids in the Christmas in Canada episodes.
@@LITTLE1994 Oh yeah, the episode where Kyle retrieved his brother Ike back. And Cartman cried like a baby when Kyle lightly tapped him.
You know what the South Park Saddam usually say, “Hey, Relax , Guy.”
@@deplatformedcrowprinceluna6339 Talk like a Canadian and is gay for Satan. He initially died from sniffing too much farts.
@@deplatformedcrowprinceluna6339 Yep
The Hindenburg would be a great simple history video.
Ok, the oil rig cigar lighter: did your animator pull inspiration from Hot Shots! Part Deux or was that an actual lighter that Saddam owned?
What did you expect from an American narrator 🤣💀
7:20 are you sure about that??
Yeah, he ain’t. They are still looking! Maybe next year? 😂😂😂
Him hunting telling us to be quite 😂😂😂
We want to provide Arabic voice translation. This type of content is highly desired in the Arab world, but Arabic channels are unable to publish it due to its difficulty.
Thank you for providing such great content 🤍
Your follower from Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦
What about your dynasty?
@@Kunta-Kinte002 What do you mean? I didn't understand.
@@Kunta-Kinte002 أي والله صدقت🤍
@@عبدالله-ك9ر2ي صدام الف لعنه على روحه القذره سفاح قاتل العراقيين
Not saying he was a good guy far from it he was a narcissist, bully, and evil but we should have never had him removed. Iraq is a s show now after the power vacuum left.
Here is a fact, when Hussein realised he was beaten, he ordered millions of cash from the Central Bank of Iraq to be taken out est to be about almost 1 billion.
That month, a handwritten note signed by Saddam Hussein surfaced, ordering $920 million to be withdrawn and given to his son Qusay Hussein. Bank officials state that Qusay and another unidentified man oversaw the cash, boxes of $100 bills secured with stamped seals known as security money, being loaded into trucks and trailers during a five-hour operation. This was considered the largest bank heist in history until 2011. Qusay Hussein was later killed by the U.S. 101st Airborne Division in a battle.
Some of the money was found in one of Hussein's palaces. The others were never found.
The heist is technically not a crime per se as Hussein is a dictator & the money could be his own personal funds.
As Buzz Lightyear once said: you’re a sad, strange, little man.
He should have not attacked Iran and stayed alliened to the USSR.
Iran would spread its revolution into Iraq even if Saddam is alligned with Russia
Lol if he didn’t attack Iran, Iran would be expanding their revolution to Iraq and the rest of the Arab world, however if you look at Iraq today it is being controlled under Iranian influence and also look at Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, they all have Iranian influence in their country.
Ben Franklin quote: Absolute power absolutely corrupts
Getting rich while the people suffer
Just like western "Democracy".
@@sleepyjoescumbag1663
Like Canada, Denmark, Switzerland, Australia, Czech Republic, Finland, Estonia, New Zealand?
It's not like immigrants are flocking to those places in their millions or anything.
You forgot too show how brutal his last days were I wouldn't take that life he had a awful demise
please make another version for The Luxury Lifestyle Of Joe Biden or Donald Trump
Say what you want. This dude enjoyed that good life despite coming from a poor background.