Iraqi military and political leader Saddam Hussein, president in 1979, waged against Iran from 1980 to 1988, and his occupation of Kuwait provoked the Gulf War of 1990 to 1991; United States in 2003 invaded, deposed him, convicted him of crimes against humanity, and executed him.
Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait; in response, George Herbert Walker Bush as president of the United States initiated the Gulf War of 1991.
This former revolutionary emphasized pan-Arab socialism. After America, people hanged him.
He wrote four historical novels, and his less known efforts emancipated Arab women and protected the Christian community.