A dangerous future: the yellow monster's demolition of homes

The fact that the noise dies though should not make us as a nation make the mistake that the dawns are quiet and all is well for eternity. That genius of a thinker, Karl Marx, in the 'The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon' wrote that "History repeats ... first as tragedy, then as farce."

Born on April 28th, 1937 in al-Awja, a suburb of Tikrit, he endured a difficult childhood; often abused by his step father. At age 20, he joined the Baath, not too long after in 1968, he assisted his cousin, General Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, in the Baathist takeover of Iraq. By the mid-1970s, he had become Iraq's unofficial leader, eventually taking over after the highly suspicious death of al-Bakr's in 1979. That was Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti's story as told in part by Tom Head in his 'The war crimes of Saddam Hussein."