The Luxury Lifestyle Of Saddam Hussein

On July 22, 1979, Iraq's new president, Saddam Hussein, convened a Baathist Party meeting, accusing members of plotting against him. As names were called, each was led away for execution, while Saddam calmly smoked a Cohiba cigar, already envisioning the luxuries his power would bring.

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Simple History Creator: Daniel Turner (B.A. (Hons) in History, University College London)
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Timestamps:
Intro: (00:00)
Wealth: (00:48)
Expensive Tastes: (02:20)
Palaces: (06:14)
Outro: (09:25)

[butters]

Our translator in Baghdad told us, "Saddam's wealth was always underestimated by the news. He was FAR richer than some of the worlds richest."

[matthewadams]

I saw it in 2003 in Iraq. This guy lived LARGE. He loved his American candy bars.

[paulwhite]

"A hard day's dictatoring" that made me chuckle 😂

[cesarespisa]

Then the Americans arrived and the gold disappeared

[Gocever]

The amount of wealth Saddam Hussein had is crazy to say the least. He honestly rivaled a James Bond villain, the last thing that missed was having an outlandish plan. Thank you once again Simple History. By the way the thumbnail is fantastic to look at.

[brandonogden]

During the War in Iraq, when Saddam was ousted, I had a second cousin who was in the US Army back in 2003, he was outside of Saddam's Palace as he carried a Golden Dragunov rifle.

[monarchist]

I’m a British Army reservist, several of my senior rank friends served in the Iraq war. Some were amongst the first coalition troops to enter Saddam’s palace after the fall of Baghdad. One, now a retired WO1 had taken his honourary field marshal rank slide which he kept for the rest of his army career. Another ignored the silverware in the kitchens but took a container of instant coffee, which he claimed was the best he had ever tasted, a brand he’s never seen again.

[charlessaint]

When I was deployed to Iraq, we spent a week at BIAP. While there we visited a retreat belong to one of Saddam's sons, I think Uday, and saw one of their luxury cars. The guys that arrived ahead of us claimed to have nickle plated AK-47s and Draganov rifles. My unit also seized a pallet of money, I wasn't there at the time, consisting stacks of $100 notes. Yeah. A lot of that went 'missing.'

The one thing that surprised me about Iraq was their highway system. It's designed pretty much like our own in the US, with on and off ramps in clover formations, overpasses, and even the sign designs and colors are the same. Except over there it's written in both English and Arabic, and the mileage is in kilometers.

[wisam]

Correction I’m an Iraqi who lived under saddam, we did not and were not starving under his rule.

However we were in constant danger of being executed or jailed and tortured if we accidentally said anything that didn’t praise the Bathist regime. And we only had 2 tv channels one for the news and propaganda and one created by his son uday which had music and tv shows and movies.

No one was allowed to have internet or satellite dishes. Any one who attempted to install a dish would get visited by the secret police and he would not have a good time.

We had a shortage of medicine, and everyone had to carry a gun incase you get robbed by street thugs, not to mention our power would go out everyday for 3-4 hours or more and then they’d turn it back on. And there was always the occasional cruise missiles raining down on us by the U.S. police would pull you over to get a bribe. And everything revolved around praising saddam and the regime. What I’m saying doesn’t even scratch the surface.

My family and I left Iraq in 1999 lived for one year in the U.A.E and came to America and been living in America ever since I was 12. I’m a Roman Catholic born that way. The Iraqi Muslims were very tolerant because saddam protected Christian’s but I’d still get the occasional knife to my throat trying to force me to convert which I would refuse. Where I lived in the U.A.E was extremely intolerant of Christians which gave me an extremely tough school year as no one wanted to be my friend and I wouldn’t be allowed to sit on the bus sometimes because I was the only non Muslim in my entire school and they’d try to get me to convert everyday

[MachJohnny]

His son Uday lived in more luxury but goddamn he made Saddam look like a Saint!

[bber]

I was in Iraq in 04-05 and Golden Plated Aks were all the rage back then. Most of them were given to Ba'ath Party Officials and Loyalist. Tons of Saddam Hussein Posters and Propaganda Paintings were still up albeit riddled with bullet holes or crosses over.
I got a chance to go to Camp Baharia also known as Dreamland. It was a resort for Uday Qusay Hussien and they spared no expense. Even after we occupied it was still pretty impressive how good they had it

[jokodihaynes]

"one would like to be both the one and the other but because it is difficult to combine them it is far better to be feared than loved if you cannot be both"- Machiavelli

[dr.mohammednafea]

Correction:
Saddam was actually a good swimmer ..
And yes he was a brutal dictator.. my people had been suffering under his rule for decades

[Learnandburn]

The US army actually found WMDs in Iraq: themselves.

[illestmelody]

He actually could swim, this video has in accurate descriptions. Saddam swam the Tigris river when he was shot and escaped during the 1960s coup

[Ibrahim.Raad]

I actually know his cousin personally—he’s my neighbor. One time, he showed me a bank account under his name in Jordan with 450 million dollars. He also told me that a member of Saddam Hussein’s family had more than 70 tons of gold, jewelry, and ancient archaeological treasures buried somewhere, and to this day, no one knows where they are except for this person who now lives in Dubai.

[ivancescka]

You should make a video about the sick man that is uday Saddam Hussain
He killed multiple people at parties
One time a general snitch on his actions to his dad and uday proceeded to rape the general wife in front of him before shooting them both
He also created al Rashid club and forced other iraqi clubs to give their best players to his club
And he tortured the 1990 iraqi team for not qualifying for the world cup

[leonndambuki]

Where was the weapons of mass destruction

[frenchfan]

"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? - Mark 8: 36-37. These verses sadly depict the life of Saddam Hussein.

[wastedviking]

When the video says "The usual" about Uday shooting 3 people at a party, this video isn't lying, in fact this was probably one of his "good" days.