Saddam Hussein - Obama Presidency Oral History Saddam Hussein Index / People Transcripts Mona Hanna-Attisha ...and somebody that nobody ever heard of, Saddam Hussein , at that time, was rising in power... ...a kid and witnessing, for example, Saddam Hussein 's brutality when he poisoned entir... Derek Chollet ...moments in international history. If Saddam Hussein had only taken the northern oil field... Chuck Hagel ...him, it was in one of the palaces—in Saddam Hussein 's palace. We were all going to talk... Hadi Pir ...that persecution worsened at all under Saddam Hussein 's regime, just to bring us up to ... ...state and had its own army. During Saddam , it was not worse, but Saddam als... ...During Saddam, it was not worse, but Saddam also prevented Yazidis from all thei... ...United States invaded Iraq to topple Saddam Hussein . I wonder if you have a memory of wha... ...but we wanted that happen. We wanted Saddam to be gone. I remember I told th... ...in charge—it's the same mentality of Saddam . The person who was in charge had th... Show more... Michael Morell ...or does Syria look like Iraq after Saddam [Hussein] fell? That was one. The other wa... ...Abbottabad is weaker than the case that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction.” Dea... Samantha Power ...that point. Halabja [Kurdistan, Iraq], Saddam Hussein 's use of chemical weapons against th... ...horror of a post-dictator period, with Saddam Hussein not on the scene, the vacuum, becaus... ...always work. But let's say expelling Saddam Hussein from Kuwait in the George H. W. Bus... Ryan Crocker ...by doing something kinetic that gets a Saddam [Hussein] -kinetic response, and that we wil... ...I'd served an early tour there when Saddam was officially made president... Brett McGurk ...Mosul Dam, which is this dam that Saddam Hussein built, basically on a very unstead... Colin Kahl ...Iraq. Because the case for deposing Saddam Hussein has not been made. Saddam Hussein ca... ...Saddam Hussein has not been made. Saddam Hussein can be contained, and we should focu... ...al-Qaeda.” Which didn't have ties to Saddam Hussein . But we would later find out—or late... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Middle East and North Africa Middle East and North Africa go to the LGBTQ Policy LGBTQ Policy go to the Human Rights Human Rights go to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Nuclear Nonproliferation go to the East Wing East Wing