Sentence examples for saddam against from inspiring English sources

Who backed Saddam against Iran?

In the south, what you see is repression by Saddam against Arabs who happen to be Shia".

The United States has been wrong, politically and morally, about Iraq more than once in the past; Washington has supported Saddam against Iran and overlooked some of his bloodiest adventures.

In his State of the Union address, President Bush offered at least four justifications, none of them overlapping: the cruelty of Saddam against his own people; his flouting of treaties and United Nations Security Council resolutions; the military threat that he poses to his neighbors; and his ties to terrorists in general and to Al Qaeda in particular.

This pretty obvious truth is no less true because we have been turning a blind eye to it - and "we" includes, until pretty recently, the government of the United States, an early and committed supporter of the "secular" Saddam against the "fanatical" Islamic religionists of the region.

Turks often point to America's shortness of memory in its allegiances, supporting Islamism against the Soviets, then opposing it; supporting Saddam against Iran, then toppling him, supporting Turkey and then the Kurds.

Saddam failed against the Kurds before he was ousted in 2003 and the Shia have failed against the Sunni since then.

One of Richard Armitage's associates described the threat to Israel, and Israel's ability to counterattack, as factors that cannot be dismissed, given Israel's known nuclear capability: "If Saddam goes against Israel big time and they come on our side big time, we've got the whole Arab-speaking world against us, instead of just Muslim terrorists".

Suleimani, now 57, was in his early 20s when he joined Iran's forces in the war Saddam launched against the country in 1980 – a conflict that became the longest conventional war of the last century and which left more than a million dead on both sides in its eight bloody years.

For a long time the demonstrators in Syria resembled the Shia uprising against Saddam in 1991: a spontaneous, uncoordinated rebellion against the regime.

This should enable him, before 2004, to consolidate that support and then reach out towards the undecided middle where elections are won and lost.Moreover, the president cast the battle against Saddam in the context of a wider struggle against terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction issues that are likely to remain vital for the foreseeable future.