Saddam Husein: The Hero, The murderer, and the president

When i think of Saddam Husein, I can not stop myself from thinking of blood, evil, and dark ages. Since I am an Iraqi-Kurd, I developed my opinion by experience my parents and myself had in Saddam's presidency. First of all, I know as Iraqis our right of having freedom of speech and acts in our own country was taken from us by an unfair person. Apart from what the media says, as a personal experience, uninfluenced by media, Saddam was a murderer and dictator who was unfair and brutal to his own people. Although Saddam did bomb Israel in 1991 and despite the doubts about his intentions behind such an act, it was to a certain extent a heroic thing to do, but it would have been much more heroic if he tried to help his own people in other ways that would make them happier to live in their country rather than finding a chance to leave it. Moreover, as a president, Saddam did manage to raise the economic level in the country, and he also did manage to keep things under control. Now the media did change our perception of things Saddam did in his life, the reason behind that was, in my opinion, a competition between a multiple of networks that were competing to deliver and make people believe their message. Usually, people who watch Al-Jazeera frequently, are usually the Saddam or even anti-US extremists, so when this network say something good about the US, the viewers would get disappointed and maybe this would drop the level of audience the network has. On the other hand, CNN audience are usually more liberal and do not support Saddam and usually do support the US, so when such a network say something good about Saddam Husein, this would maybe offend some people and disappoint them and this would also drop the level of audience this network has. So, in my opinion, its all about number of viewers=income. Recently, media is being used to decrease the number of extremists and terrorists in our territory, something not being used on networks like Al-Jazeera, which creates many doubts about its intentions; however it is being used on more liberal and open networks like Al-Arabia, which is a network that is more moderist and liberal rather than extremist and closed. Media, did change some people's ideas and opinion about Saddam Husein, but in the end, just like any other person, Saddam has the bad and the good side, andd he chose to give the bad to his people and the bad to his outside countries. In addition to that, Saddam's execution was definetly a media attraction because it was a turning point in the Iraqi history, where many people were trying to show other Iraqis that the dark ages of our country is over and new era is going to begin, which as Iraqis, we haven't seen yet...