House of Saddam

Another day has passed by and I decided to blog about the mini series called "House of Saddam" Why blog about this? The reason why I decided to blog about this is because of the traits that I was able to see in the show. Made me reflect about being human and errors that most of can do. Let me give you those words that I was able to see in the whole show...

Loyalty
Loyal - 1. Faithful to one's country, friends, ideals, etc.
2. showing such faithfulness adv. loyalty.

I was in awe how some of his supporters are still loyal to him even though he was already ousted as President of Iraq. His close supporters or followers believed in him that he would be back in power.

Deception and traitor

Deception - 1. a deceiving or being deceived.
2. an illusion or fraud

Traitor
Traitor - one who betray one's country, cause, friends, etc.

When he felt threatened by someone who opposes his ideas, he finds a way or 2 to make sure that that person is 6 feet underground. To him, there are no friends & no family when it came to business nor politics. He's not the person that you don't want to cross with.

Greed - noun, excessive or rapacious desire, esp. for wealth or possessions.

As far as I can see, he is the type of person who was powered by greed to attain his goal. When he was still with the baathist party he was rising in the ranks than usual for being notoriously good with torturing people.

Merciful

Mercy - compassionate or kindly forbearance shown toward an offender, an enemy, or other person in one's power; compassion, pity, or benevolence: Have mercy on the poor sinner.
2. the disposition to be compassionate or forbearing: an adversary wholly without mercy.
3. the discretionary power of a judge to pardon someone or to mitigate punishment, esp. to send to prison rather than invoke the death penalty.
4. an act of kindness, compassion, or favor: She has performed countless small mercies for her friends and neighbors.
5. something that gives evidence of divine favor; blessing: It was just a mercy we had our seat belts on when it happened.
—Idiom
6. at the mercy of, entirely in the power of; subject to: They were at the mercy of their captors. Also, at one's mercy.

It was astounding for me that he was able to show mercy to his First born son named Uday. He knew that Uday was doing some crazy antics yet he made it clear to his son about being responsible on his own actions.


The show was really amazing and kudos for the actors who portrayed the Husseins.. The one that made me a bit teary eyed was when Saddam visited the graves of his 2 sons and his grandchild Mustafa. It was a very sad moment for me. He might be a bad guy yet he was still able to show human qualities that makes him human. He was capable of showing love. He has the biggest pride I have ever seen. He stick to his ideas until his last breath..

I am not saying that he's a great man... It just shows that he's human like us..

It's up to here right now.. I am currently expiriencing a block in my mind, unable to write anything.. I'll just continue on my next blog about my reaction about the mini series..