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NEWS > EVERYONE ELSE > NEWLY RELEASED DOCUMENTS SHOW SADDAM HUSSEIN MAY HAVE BEEN A LITTLE FUNNY IN THE HEAD
NEWLY RELEASED DOCUMENTS SHOW SADDAM HUSSEIN MAY HAVE BEEN A LITTLE FUNNY IN THE HEAD
October 29 2011
Washington, D.C. – Before the dictators in Africa fell, before Syria began to wage war on its people, before Osama bin Laden was even a name, there was Saddam Hussein. The first madman of the Middle East in the modern era, Hussein had well- 
earned his reputation as a hard man and an altogether distasteful person. He gassed his own people, invaded other countries, and just generally caused a whole lot of problems for a lot of people.
Eventually, Hussein got what was coming to him. Deposed, tried, convicted, and hanged for his actions against his country and the rest of the world Hussein is little more than a memory for many people in Iraq and in the wider world. Still, he stands as one of the great monsters of recent history, a legacy that few will be forgetting anytime soon.
Now that legend, it appears, will grow even greater with the release of new documents that show an increasing instability in the Iraqi leader, even bordering on paranoia, along with all his other problems like gassing Kurds and starting war after war.
“From looking at papers it is clear that Hussein believed that there were conspiracies afoot, conspiracies to prolong their war with Iran and to possibly even entice them into invading Kuwait. While such conspiracies may well have existed there is no real evidence of such, which speaks to a possibly disturbed mind,” said Scrape TV 
Psychology analyst Dr. Sarah Welp. “When a person believes something is there despite no evidence to suggest that it is, it is often the result of a diseased mind. It is likely that much of the world wanted him dead but he had no evidence of that, which is the mental disorder.”
Amongst other things the documents reveal, Hussein believed that the shipments of weapons to Iraq from the United States was an effort to prolong the war with Iran in an effort to kill more Iraqi soldiers.
Apparently, he believed that Kurdish civilians were also in on the conspiracy, resulting in the 1988 gas attack that killed 5000 people.
“You look at the man we knew, all these documents and reports aside, and he casts a certain picture but when you see this information you are inevitably drawn to the conclusion that he might have been a little funny in the head. His paranoia led to some dramatic miscalculations about the Iranians and the Americans, and ultimately that led to his downfall. It’s really a shame because if this had been diagnosed he might have been able to stay in power much longer,” continued Welp. “Certainly he would not have been as interesting a character and a lot more people would not be dead, but it might have at least allowed him to leave office with dignity rather than crawling out of a hole in the ground and then hanged in a dank room. Mental illness, clearly, can result in bad things for some people.”
It’s not clear if Hussein was ever treated. It’s believed likely that if had been diagnosed that he had his doctors killed until he got the answer he wanted.
Emil Uliya, International Correspondent
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