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[Ediacara]

Saddam 'on drugs when he decided to invade Kuwait'

February 13, 2004

Ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was probably high on drugs when he decided to invade Kuwait in 1990, a former chief of protocol said in a radio interview yesterday.

Issam Rashid Walid, whose book In Saddam's Shadow is due to be released in French in the coming days, also told Europe 1 radio Saddam had amassed a fortune of about $US35 billion ($44.5 billion) through various companies he set up, including many in the Brazilian car industry.

"Saddam was heavily into drugs. He began in 1959, with cannabis, and then when he seized power , he used heroin at times. He decided to invade Kuwait because he was probably not in his normal state. He was on drugs and drugs made him lose his mind," said Walid.

Iraq invaded Kuwait on August 2, 1990, just two years after the end of its eight-year war with Iran.

More at the Sydney Morning Herald

[dArKeR]

1. Saddam was a junkie - staffer

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/Iraq/0,,2-10-1460_1482731,00.html

Who's publishing the history of AWOL's hard drug use for 30 years?

[Ediacara]

2. I can just see the PFADFA commercials now

"Saddam smoked pot in 1959, but it was a gateway drug that led to heroin and madmanism. Marijuana, it's more dangerous than you think"...

[htuttle]

5. Warning: Smoking Marijuana can cause you to invade Kuwait

Other harmful effects include writing-bad-romance-novelism.

[Ediacara]

6. LOL

Man... I totally wouldn't be surprised to see this as a basis for a TV commercial.

[Scurrilous]

7. Smoking pot can lead you to invade....

..your refrigerator. Kuwait I'm not sure about.

[loftycity]

13. If he was doing drugs...mellowed out would seem to be the ticket

Not Aggression..it's some propaganda.
Raiding the fridge sounds right.

[sendero]

15. LOL....

.... yeppers!

[jenk]

3. it was Saddam's "lost weekend"

[nodehopper]

4. they are combining war effor with a PSA

"My anti-drug is Bush."

oy.

[Norquist Nemesis]

8. Proof that WMD was a delusion n/t

[einniv]

9. It wasn't... no it couldn't be.... please tell me its not....

STERIODS!!!

[electricmonk]

10. So is that going to be W's excuse too?

I can see it now.

[Beaker]

11. so THAT'S where the WMD money went- to buy weed for Sadaam.

the Iraqi WMD program was just a front for Sadaam to siphon money for bud.

[rocktivity]

12. Was he on drugs when this meeting took place, Rummy?

rocknation

[FDRrocks]

14. Kuwait should've stayed away from his stash...

of oil, that is.

[KansDem]

16. No wonder Rush hates him so much...

It's that classic "pill popper" vs. "pot smoker" animosity rearing its ugly head.

[bushisanidiot]

17. Was Reagon On Drugs When He Sold Saddam Hussein Bio/Chem. Weapons?

and was Donald Rummsfeld on drugs when he shook $addam Hus$$ein's hand to $eal the deal?$?$?