Saddam vs. Ayatollah
CONFLICTED
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I Think Sadam Wasn't Wrong to Fear the Spread of the Revolution in Ira.
iroc was factional in its very nature. The largest single efnite group, if you like, the largest single group within irok, were shia arabs. And sedam hussain, as the head of the bath party, was trying to create an ideology that would work to unite the country. But much of iraki society was not arab. They were either kurds or turk men, and they were not secular. There were two groups within the shea who were particularly threatening to sadamusan - the dawa party and a group of mullas. Both of these shia groups were calling for an iranian style revolution in ira
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