How Saddam Hussein’s Execution Scarred Iraq and Changed US Foreign Policy Forever

How Saddam Hussein’s Execution Scarred Iraq and Changed US Foreign Policy Forever

Thursday marks the anniversary of the December 30, 2006 execution of Saddam Hussein, the former Iraqi leader reviled by Iranians for his 1980s war of aggression, but respected by many Iraqis for standing up to Western imperialism. How did Hussein’s hanging by the American occupation regime affect Iraq and alter US foreign policy? Sputnik explains.

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