At the beginning of class we reviewed the map of Canada. Then we talked about our next assigned blog. The topic I was chose was universal education. Following that we went back to our blog decision on Iraq.
- Saddam Hussein
- In power from 1979-2003
- Leader of Iraq
- His father died
- Mother married very abusive man
- Moved to Uncles
- Moved home
- Moved back to Uncles
- Applied to military school did not make it through
- He did not do very well in school
- Was very focused on politics
- When he became a leader he scared a lot of people in order to stay in power
- He lead the Iraq army to war against Iran ended in a stalemate
- He used chemical warfare
- He helped Iraq during this war
- In the 90's he had his troops go into Kuwait and raid it
- Then the U.S. went in and ended that
- In 2003 we found Saddam Hussein In a hole in the ground
- On December 30th 2006 his own people hung him
- From 1991 to 2001 was the time that Al Qaeda started to really dislike us
- After the Persian Gulf War our economic sanctions on Iraq were increased
- Then we had a thing that was called the No Fly Zone which was when we practically guarded all of Iraq
- The reason the war started in 2003 was because Hussein was tired of the U.S. in his country
- We invaded once we learned that Hussein was having nuclear weapons made
- We never ended up finding any weapons of mass destruction
- Obama and the Iraq War
- Main highlight was bringing back all of the troops
- The war went on for nine years
- When he was elected in 2008 he said that the first thing that he was going to do was end the war in Iraq
- low points were that he did not do it quick enough
- Bush and the Iraq War
- He toppled Saddam Hussein's run
- He gave the Surge which said that we should send more troops over
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