A few days ago, Mrs. Raghad Saddam Hussein published what she called a small part of the personal memoirs of her father, the late President Saddam Hussein. She commented on this publication on her private account on the X platform, saying: Happy New Year to the Arab nation, the nation that has always been the most important in your struggle. However, the nation is not fine, and Iraq is not fine, my father. Nations have fought against it, but I promised you that Iraq would be fine, God willing, and today I decided to publish a small part of your memoirs in my own way, because publishing houses have warnings against publishing them, and today will be important for many. From your fans and even others.
Then Raghad continues, saying: To them we dedicate your private memoirs that you wrote while you were in the American prison in Iraq. To you, my father, all reverence and appreciation, you intrepid hero, to the gardens of eternity, you high knowledge.
Mrs. Raghad’s words ended, to which she attached several pages, amounting to about forty pages, beginning on the fifteenth of May 2004, and ending on the twenty-second of the same month and year, meaning that they are the sum of only one week, and some of them contain poetic verses, Some lines have some phrases crossed out, and then a diary entry, most of which is dedicated to the visits of doctors monitoring Saddam Hussein’s health condition. It is clear that he was suffering from two hernias and prostate problems, that he lost more than ten kilograms of weight in one month, and that he needed… To a radiological and electronic examination, then some human thoughts, including, for example: Has any of you tried to look directly into his eyes in the moment when he sees his beloved after a long separation, and has he tried to hear his heartbeat, his soul’s thoughts, hearing, and passion, and can he describe how he suffers in… Parting is air.
It is of course important that we read all possible writings of historical figures, whether we agree or disagree with them, whether we see them as heroes or wrongdoers. Every testimony to history is an addition, provided that it is placed in its appropriate place.
I very much appreciate the feelings of Mrs. Raghad Saddam Hussein as a daughter. In the end, he is her father for whom she has all the good feelings that she believes he deserves, and this is her right, especially since she lived her childhood and youth under the care of a father who was one of the most powerful figures of his time, and the town was one of the richest and most powerful countries. Arabic, and possesses wealth that may exceed what the wealthy Gulf states possess. Thus, Iraq was a major, safe, and stable country that possessed enormous wealth, civilization, history, and culture. So what happened?
It was the same President Saddam Hussein who squandered its wealth in three wars that consumed everything green and dry. It was the first Gulf War in which he entered into a war with Iran that lasted for eight years from 1980-1988, in which about a million people were killed, and its losses amounted to 400 billion US dollars. Then came the Iraqi invasion. to Kuwait in August 1990, and occupied an Arab country, and fired missiles at Riyadh and the eastern region in Saudi Arabia, and burned Kuwaiti oil wells, and Kuwait almost disappeared from the world map, and as a result of this madness, coalition forces consisting of 34 countries liberated Kuwait, and the United States was not satisfied with United to liberate Kuwait, and the continuation of Saddam because of the threat he had become, so it had to eliminate his rule and occupy Iraq under the pretext that it possessed nuclear weapons. Iraq was invaded in March 2003, in what was called the Third Gulf War, and thus this was the unfortunate result of the stupidity, arrogance and arrogance of Saddam Hussein, who Transferring Iraq from a strong, wealthy country to an occupied, destroyed, and dispersed country.
If his daughter, Mrs. Raghad, comes today to bestow on him the qualities of heroism, martyrdom, courage, and pride, then the unfortunate truth is that he does not deserve any of these qualities, as he alone is the one who caused everything that Iraq, and even the entire Arab nation, went through, which he corrupted, misled, and divided among supporters of his actions. And he refused, and he was the one who squandered its wealth in useless wars, and he was the one who brought the occupier, and here we are to this day suffering from what Saddam Hussein did to his country and to his Arab nation, so when his daughter complains to him about the condition of the Arab nation, she should know that what we are in now is tolerated. Her father is more responsible than him. History is unforgettable.
