REVOLUTIONARY bulla-up forcibly Saddam Hussein: wants to become imperialism's new gendarme in the the ture the PRESIDENT Saddam Hussein of Iraq has a high opinion of himself.
In a two-page advertisment, placed by the Iraqi government in the Observer in July, he was described as having 'obviously inherited the two fountains of Eastern wisdom: the shrewd experience of his rural folk and the ancient experience of his nation'.
This self-promotion concluded: 'Iraq was more than once the springboard for civilisation in the Middle East and the question is now pertinently asked, with a leade like this man, the wealth of resources, forceful people like the Iraqis, will she repeat her former glories?' West The Iraqi invasion of Iran is, at its most simple, an attempt by Hussein to recapthese 'former glories The Iraqi president is out to make a name for himself.
His aim is to ensure that, as the advertisement in the Observer becenes the 'Baghdad gravity in the area centre of Ever since the fall of the Shah, possibility that he can dominate the Middle East and Gulf areas.
To do this he has dropped some of the socialistic and OTTe allegedly far-left he and Saudi Arabia, all of whom are much more under the US imperialism than Hussein is prepared to admit he is.
Hussein has been moving closer these right-wing Gulf regimes. It is not simply a case or tne Iraol presiden himself as the new Middle East leader; there i also interest safeguarding the the type of revolutionary fervour which swept Iran.
That is why, , for instance, Hussein recently signed an agreement with Saudi Arabi: pledging to exchange information on 'subversives'.
According to Amnesty In ternational Iraq executed 257 SUCI 'subversives' between January 1978 and December Bigotry The victims included police and army officers, but also Kurdish guerrillas and at least prominent trade unionist Badan Fadil Araibi, who was executed last August.
Hussein is reported to have personally attended some of these executions As well as these killings Iraq recently expelled proximately 35,000 of its own citizens, , many of whom were Shi'ite Moslems, members of the same sect as Ayatollah Khomeini choosing discriminate against the Shi'ites, Hussein's motive did stem fron bigotry. Again, his fear was that the Shi'ites would be too open tr the type of sentiments whict