Saddam Hussein vs. Winston Churchill
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Saddam Hussein
1937 – 2006
Saddam Hussein was an Iraqi politician and revolutionary who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 1979 until his overthrow in 2003 during the United States-led invasion of Iraq. He previously served as the vice president from 1968 to 1979 and also as the prime minister from 1979 to 1991 and later from 1994 to 2003. A leading member of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, he was a proponent of Ba'athism, a mix of Arab nationalism and Arab socialism.
"Great Iraqi men and women, members of the families of the martyrs, You have offered the homeland the best thing you could afford. Thus you have come to merit lo…"
Winston Churchill
1940 – 2010
Winston Churchill (1874) was a British statesman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during World War II, and Nobel Prize winner in Literature.
"Of this I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future."
Connections
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