How Did Saddam Hussein Become The President Of Iraq

Saddam Hussein was the president of Iraq for over two decades. Saddam joined the Ba’ath Party in 1957. In 1959, Saddam and the Ba’ath Party tried to assassinate Iraq’s president Abd al-Karim Qasim. After sustaining several gunshot wounds, Qasim managed to survive the assassination attempt. After the failed assignation attempt, Saddam escaped to Syria to avoid being caught and executed. A successful Ba’ath coup in 1968 resulted in Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr becoming Iraq’s new president, and Saddam becoming his deputy; where Saddam proved to be a progressive and effective politician. In 1973, Saddam helped Iraq develop the first chemical weapons program in the country. The intention of this program was to help guard against coups. In 1979 al-Bakr wanted to unite Syria and Iraq, this move would leave Saddam powerless, so Saddam forced al-Bakr to resign leading to Saddam to become Iraq’s next president. A few months’ later Saddam’s political enemies from the Ba’ath Party were tried and executed. In 1980, Iraq went to war with Iran, which would end eight years later with a ceasefire agreement.
In late 2002, United Nations inspectors began their search at suspected weapons sites in Iraq, but ultimately found no evidence. In early 2003, a U.S.-led coalition invaded Iraq under the pretense that Iraq did have weapons even though there was no evidence. Iraq’s government and military fell, but Saddam managed to dodge capture. Bush had ordered Saddam to step down as president and leave Iraq within 48hrs, if Saddam did not comply with these demands Iraq would face a war. Saddam refused to leave, thus the U.S. and allied forces attacked Iraq. The U.S. then decided to try to set up a new democratic institution in