The Saddam Hussein In Power

Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi greeting Iraqi vice-President Saddam Hussein, as he arrives in Delhi, April 2nd 1974. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

 9th September 1975: Iraqi vice-president Saddam Hussein (left) meets French President Valery Giscard D'Estaing at the Elysee Palace, during an official visit to Paris. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

 20th March 1970: Saddam Hussein (right), Deputy Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council and Assistant Secretary of the Socialist Arab Baath Party, visits Erbil to meet with Mulla Mustafa al-Barzani, leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

 Portrait of Iraqi Pres. Saddam Hussein w. two of his daughters. (Photo by Nik Wheeler/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images)

 PARIS, FRANCE: Iraqi Vice-President Saddam Hussein has a lunch 03 March 1975 in Hotel Matignon in Paris during his meeting with French Prime minister Jacques Chirac (not pictured). As premier, Chirac welcomed Saddam Hussein to France, referring to him as 'a personal friend'. France became Iraq's main military supplier in the West and was building a nuclear reactor for Iraq that was destroyed by the Israelis in 1979. AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read AFP/Getty Images)

 BAUX-DE-PROVENCE, FRANCE: Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein (2nd L) walks in a street of les Baux-de-Provence accompanied by it's mayor Mr. Tuillier (3rd L) before attending a corrida organized by the municipality in his honor 07 September 1975 in Les Baux-de-Provence, southern France. (FILM) AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read AFP/Getty Images)

 TIKRIT, IRAQ: Photo dated 1960 of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in his hometown of Tikrit. Saddam came to power in 1979. (Photo credit should read AFP/Getty Images)

 Baghdad, IRAQ: (FILES): This black and white reproduction of a picture taken in 1960 shows Saddam Hussein as a young member of the Baath Party. Ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was executed by hanging early Saturday morning, 30 December 2006, state-run Iraqiya television reported. AFP PHOTO/FILES (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images)

 Baghdad, IRAQ: (FILES): This 1975 file photograph shows Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (R) meeting with Indira Gandhi of India in Baghdad. Ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was executed by hanging early Saturday morning, 30 December 2006, state-run Iraqiya television reported. AFP PHOTO/PRESIDENTIAL PALACE (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images)

 Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein prays with other Muslim faithfuls in a mosque. (Photo by Jacques Pavlovsky/Sygma via Getty Images)

 Foreign Royalty, Politics, Personalities, pic: March 1975, Algiers,The Shah of Iran (Persia) left, with Algeria's President Houri Boumediene, centre, and Saddam Hussein, the Vice President of Iraq's Council of Revolutionary Command (Photo by Rolls Press/Popperfoto/Getty Images)

 MOROCCO - OCTOBER 27: Saddam Hussein in the Arab summit in Rabat, Morocco on October 27, 1974. (Photo by Michel ARTAULT/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

 ALGERIA - MARCH 01: Opep: Saddam Hussein and Emir Of Kuwait in Algiers, Algeria in March, 1975 - Saddam Hussein 04/03/1975. (Photo by Gilbert UZAN/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

 ALGERIA - MARCH 01: Opep: Saddam Hussein and Emir Of Kuwait in Algiers, Algeria in March, 1975 - Saddam Hussein and Boumedienne 06/03/1975. (Photo by Gilbert UZAN/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

 Saddam Hussein In France (Photo by JARNOUX Patrick/Paris Match via Getty Images)

 (Original Caption) President of Iraq, Saddam Hussein (left) is shown with Cuba's first Vice President Raul Castro (right, brother of Fidel) at the first day of the Non-Aligned countries summit meeting.

 SHEIKH ASSAAD BAYOUD TAMINI (Photo by Maher Attar/Sygma via Getty Images)

 Portrait of President George W. Bush with a montage of events from his presidency. Pencil drawing. (Photo by VCG Wilson/Corbis via Getty Images)

 Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein prays with other Muslim faithfuls in a mosque. (Photo by Jacques Pavlovsky/Sygma via Getty Images)

 Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein visits soldiers in northern Iraq. (Photo by Jacques Pavlovsky/Sygma via Getty Images)

 Saddam Hussein with Iraqi President Hassan Al Bakr. (Photo by Jacques Pavlovsky/Sygma via Getty Images)

 Iraqi Leader Saddam Hussein Smoking Cigar at the Taef Summit (Photo by Jacques Pavlovsky/Sygma via Getty Images)

 Mural Painting of Saddam Hussein with Shovel and Wheelbarrow (Photo by © Shepard Sherbell/CORBIS SABA/Corbis via Getty Images)

 French Prime Minister, Jacques Chirac and President Saddam Hussein sign an agreement giving priority to France for commercial exchange with Iraq. (Photo by Henri Bureau/Sygma/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)

 French Council President Nicole de Hauteclocque (R) confers with Vice-President of Iraqi's Council Saddam Hussein at the Paris' city hall on June 15, 1972. / AFP PHOTO / - (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images)

 Saddam Hussein and Yasser Arafat at the Conference of Non-Aligned Countries on September 2 and 3, 1979, in Havana, Cuba. (Photo by François LOCHON / Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

 Meeting between Iran's President of the National Council of Resistance Massoud Rajavi and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in June 1986, Iraq. (Photo by Arnaud BORREL / Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

 The Iranian Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and the Iraqi Vice President Saddam Hussein, received by Algerian President Houari Boumediene in Algiers, Algeria, on March 4, 1975, to begin a process of reconciliation between Iran and Iran. 'Iraq. (Photo by UZAN Gilbert / Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

 Saddam Hussein, Yasser Arafat and Ali Nasser Muhammad at the anti-Egyptian summit in Baghdad on 3 to 5 November 1978, Iraq. (Photo by Alain MINGAM / Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

Saddam Hussein and Ahmad Hassan al-Bakr in Baghdad, Iraq, circa 1970. (Photo by Rosy ROLL / Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)