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"...which stages the story ad nasuem..." is incorrect; the term is "ad nauseam." If the word is misspelled in the passage being quoted, there should be a [sic] after "nasuem." ~~Mpaniello~~

"Hussein's rule was a repressive dictatorship[12] notorious for it's human rights abuses." You cite that he was a dictator but not that he was notorious for human rights abuses. While it may seem obvious (sic) to westerners it needs a solid citation. -thanks

change "Former US president Donald Trump" to "US president Donald Trump" Dandelionsunshine (talk) 20:57, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Changed "former" to "then", making no references to his current status as it will change in a couple years. Yue🌙 23:08, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I have no idea which idiot did this, but someone completly moved the religion and ethnicity, the infastuture economy, womens rights, right sin general, literally everything saddam did in his presidency that was postive to the vice president section, even though he did it during his presidency, i ahve no idea when this was moved around, if someone here more experinced then me could please correct this stupid mistake, currently saddams presidency section does not include his postive aspects, only showcasisng one side, with an attempt to move all his accomplishments into the vice president section?? Local Mandaean (talk) 05:30, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

i will try edit it properly. That user combined vice-presidency role and presidency role in vice president section Kharbaan Ghaltaan (talk) 07:46, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

When do you reckon you can fix it up? will cause confusion if not done Local Mandaean (talk) 07:41, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry bro. Due to my busy schedule. Kharbaan Ghaltaan (talk) 14:57, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Also that user has mixed everything. So its not just cutting pasting and making it back to previous verson Kharbaan Ghaltaan (talk) 14:58, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. As of now, the content remains largely unchanged. I do not know why everything positive about Hussein was reorganized into the "Vice-President" section when it happened during Mr. Hussein's presidency, but it makes the article seem a lot more biased and a lot less neutral.

This needs to be fixed, as the article is not being represented in a neutral way.

Thanks. KiddKrazy2 (talk) 09:14, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for restoring the original, which was far more neutral! KiddKrazy2 (talk) 14:34, 13 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I think you're not qualified at all to ask for such edits and shouldn't get angry about dead guys. Saddam was known to cover up at least two rapes committed by his son and the whole family was as inbred as all hell. So forgive us for dismissing a rambling objection which doesn't give any specifics. Yes, the article is terrible and misses major sections of the man's life, but I assure you there's nothing to like about these guys.

-Elijah Erose9210 (talk) 20:34, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I think you misunderstand what this is about.

Someone had made a very unconstructive edit where they moved a lot of positive aspects of Saddam's presidency (Ethnic rights, religious rights, women's rights, development of the Iraqi economy) to the "Vice-Presidency" section for seemingly no reason.

This talk page section "URGENT" is simply asking to restore it to before it was changed to keep the article Non-Partisan and neutral, which is the way Wikipedia is written.

Also, since you mentioned Uday despite no one else talking about him, you should know that Saddam repeatedly imprisoned Uday, exiled him to Switzerland and burned down his enormous car collections repeatedly as a result of Uday's evil and heinous crimes. He also made Qusay the heir apparent because Qusay did not display Uday's psycopathic tendencies. Saddam knew what a dangerous person Uday was to Iraq and repeatedly had him punished for his crimes. KiddKrazy2 (talk) 08:42, 16 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

We all know the article is bad, but the only way it's going to improve is if Saddam's biographer contacts Wiki admin directly to rewrite the whole thing. And there simply was no real change to the economy or the status of women in Iraq during that period, and the Ba'ath definitely screwed some people over for being Kurdish so IDK what you mean about ethnic rights. Iraqi law and official statements simply have nothing to do with reality. Erose9210 (talk) 18:55, 26 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No real change to status of women in iraq?! Saddam Husesin was the reason a women could get into higher education, he was the reason women could divorce their husbands and be given custody of children, and equalyl given the assets of the marriage, saddam is the reason women could walk the streets in the night without a hijab on, Saddam is the definiton of a feminist when it comes to what he did for the women of Iraq. Local Mandaean (talk) 07:20, 28 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

First off, the westernization period starts before Saddam entered politics. Second off, Saddam bought his cousin for "marriage" and his son is raped at least two women and was in bed with a different prostitute or party girl every night. But more importantly, all the women mentioned here are the same, the college itself was how party officials got easy access to young girls most of which were the daughters of rich men and they'd hide in the bathroom when the Husseins were around. The fact they attended a (mostly fake) college and wore cheap American clothes means nothing, just like it means nothing that Saddam declared how Muslim he was halfway through his rule.

Welcome to the Middle East.

-Elijah Erose9210 (talk) 03:13, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There is no need to keep talking about Uday when we are clearly talking about SADDAM Hussein. As i mentioned before, Saddam knew what a danger Uday was to Iraq and had Uday repeatedly punished ( repeated imprisonment, exile to Switzerland, removed as heir apparent) for his evil and heinous crimes.

On to the subject of Iraqi women's rights, Saddam heavily improved on women's rights.

The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, an NGO based in Switzerland that advocates for women's rights notes the following :

Contrary to popular imagination, Iraqi women enjoyed far more freedom under Saddam Hussein's secular Ba'athist government than women in other Middle Eastern countries. In fact, equal rights for women were enshrined in Iraq's Constitution in 1970, including the right to vote, run for political office, access education and own property. Today, these rights are all but absent under the U.S.-backed government of Nouri al-Maliki.

Prior to the devastating economic sanctions of the 1990s, Iraq's education system was top notch and female literacy rates were the highest in the region, reaching 87 percent in 1985. Education was a major priority for Saddam Hussein's regime, so much so that in 1982 Iraq received the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) award for eradicating illiteracy. But the education system crumbled from financial decay under the weight of the sanctions pushing over 20 percent of Iraqi children out of school by 2000 and reversing decades of literacy gains. Today, a quarter of Iraqi women are illiterate, more than double the rate for Iraqi men (11 percent). Female illiteracy in rural areas alone is as high as 50 percent.

Women were integral to Iraq's economy and held high positions in both the private and public sectors, thanks in large part to labor and employment laws that guaranteed equal pay, six months fully paid maternity leave and protection from sexual harassment. In fact, it can be argued that some of the conditions enjoyed by working women in Iraq before the war rivaled those of working women in the United States.

While it is true that Saddam Hussein was not the first Iraqi leader to improve on the rights of women, he was by far the one with THE MOST contributions to the betterment of women's rights. KiddKrazy2 (talk) 20:26, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Uday was in control of the state oil company and held senior military posts and was Saddam's heir. Saddam LITERALLY covered up a murder he committed, so I would ask you to stop straight up lying about the topic at hand, especially when you're equating not just the cousin fucking sultan with his government, but you're also equating him with clansman and predecessor Ahmed al-Bakr whom Saddam forced into retirement. Just because Saddam scared Americans that one time by accident doesn't mean a damn thing, just like it doesn't mean a damn thing that not even the CIA knows how many women Saddam forced to marry him including one of those "liberated" women who was working as a flight attendant (a high paying job at the time). Turns out she was married to the guy who owned the plane, hence the job, and she had to divorce him in order to bare Saddam's child whose siblings despised as being ibn sharmouta. I'll wager that UN nonsense you copied from the web was paid for by the man himself or otherwise fraudulently written by Ba'ath affiliated persons because the thing about middle east politics is literally everything they say is a lie. They even lie about the sewers.

They are all trash. Every last one of them.

-Elijah Erose9210 (talk) 22:05, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Pls give similar details of some western politicians like George W Bush and Tony Blair sir Kharbaan Ghaltaan (talk) 22:11, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You Said that this "this idiot believe all men are rapist. also you idiot believe that all Arab-Muslim leaders like Saddam are uncivilized Kharbaan Ghaltaan (talk) 20:06, 3 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Which kind of neutrality wikipedia shows, when article is biased. Whatever Uday was, after all he was an important figure. Regarding the U.S soliders convicted in raping which you said earlier. Nothing bad happened to these convicts. Meanwhile Saddam, he punished Uday. Uday fall out of favor to be heir apparent. Saddam burned Uday's car collection. He expelled him to Switzerland. and this not ends here. Saddam would punish more. Due to this Uday even attempt to commit suicide, thinking that this suicide would be less severe than the punishment Kharbaan Ghaltaan (talk) 20:24, 3 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia's article shoudn't be biased and one sided. All western politicians and their people are shown civilized, while Arab and Muslim leaders like Saddam and his people are shown uncivilized. How biased. Kharbaan Ghaltaan (talk) 20:26, 3 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Come on. We all know you'd say that no matter what it said. Erose9210 (talk) 19:40, 4 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

what do you mean Kharbaan Ghaltaan (talk) 21:43, 4 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Uday was NEVER in charge of Iraq's oil and lost both military command and the heir after Saddam to Qusay. As i mentioned twice already, Saddam knew what a danger Uday was to Iraq. What murder has Saddam committed??

As i also said, the reforms in women's rights was spearheaded by SADDAM. Ahmed Hassan Al-Bakr was sick for most of his rule and during his reign, reforms were being undertaken by Vice-President Saddam Hussein.

"Just because Saddam scared Americans that one time by accident" What are you referring to even?

Saddam's ONLY wives were Sajida Khayrallah Talfah and Samira Shahbandar (the flight attendant).

Also, no one here is talking about Saddam's personal life. We are clearly talking about the POSITIVE aspects of his presidency and about someone who had made a very unconstructive edit.

Also, you cannot simply make false claims about something using flimsy/no evidence to back it up, that sort of behaviour was what Bush and Blair used to justify the war of aggression against Iraq in 2003. The information stated by the source i provided is factual, written AFTER the fall of Saddam, and is backed up by Iraqi women's rights activists and regular women in Iraq.

Nora Hamaid, a university graduate who gave up her dream career, had this to say:

"I completed my studies before the invaders arrived because there was good security and I could freely go to university," Hamaid tells IPS. Now she says she cannot even move around freely, and worries for her children every day. "I mean every day, from when they depart to when they return from school, for fear of abductions."

Maha Sabria, professor of political science at Al-Nahrain University, Baghdad said the following:

"The status of women here is linked to the general situation, the violation of women's rights was part of the violation of the rights of all Iraqis."

"women bear a double burden under occupation because we have lost a lot of freedom because of it."

"More men are now under the weight of detention, so now women bear the entire burden of the family and are obliged to provide full support to the families and children. At the same time women do not have freedom of movement because of the deteriorated security conditions and because of abductions of women and children by criminal gangs."

Sabria tells IPS that the abduction of women "did not exist prior to the occupation. We find that women lost their right to learn and their right to a free and normal life, so Iraqi women are struggling with oppression and denial of all their rights, more than ever before."

Yanar Mohammed, a women's rights activist in Iraq said this:

"The U.S. occupation has decided to let go of women's rights,"

"Political Islamic groups have taken southern Iraq, are fully in power there, and are using the financial support of Iran to recruit troops and allies. The financial and political support from Iran is why the Iraqis in the south accept this, not because the Iraqi people want Islamic law."

An Iraqi woman who wished to be referred to as Iman said this:

"I am an employee, and everyday go to my work place, and the biggest challenge for me and all the suffering Iraqis is the roads are closed and you feel you are a person without rights, without respect,"

"We have better salaries now, but how can women live with no security? How can we enjoy our rights if there is no safe place to go, for rest and recreation and living?"

Local Mandaean is right to say Saddam was the definition of a feminist when it comes to what he did for the women of Iraq. I think this paragraph sums it up pretty well.

Under Saddam Hussein, women in government got a year's maternity leave; that is now cut to six months. Under the Personal Status Law in force since Jul. 14, 1958, when Iraqis overthrew the British-installed monarchy, Iraqi women had most of the rights that Western women do.

Now they have Article 2 of the Constitution: "Islam is the official religion of the state and is a basic source of legislation." Sub-head A says "No law can be passed that contradicts the undisputed rules of Islam." Under this Article the interpretation of women's rights is left to religious leaders – and many of them are under Iranian influence. KiddKrazy2 (talk) 15:03, 3 March 2025 (UTC)

That sort of libel will get you killed around here. Erose9210 (talk) 18:50, 26 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

What do you mean Kharbaan Ghaltaan (talk) 19:58, 26 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

What libel? Are you referring to what Kharbaan Ghaltaan said? KiddKrazy2 (talk) 20:55, 28 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Under reception and legacy, Donald Trump is quoted from an article from July 2016. He is incorrectly labeled as “then president.” The election of 2016 had not taken place yet and Barack Obama was still president of the United States, Trump was only a candidate. Please change “Then US President Donald Trump” to “Then US Presidential Candidate Donald Trump” J.boucher822 (talk) 07:19, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Fixed. Yue💌 08:11, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]