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This story initially printed on Aug. 3, 1990. It’s being republished as a part of the commemoration of USA TODAY’s fortieth anniversary on Sept. 15, 2022.
![Iraqi President Saddam Hussein 19 September 1987 in Baghdad embraces Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) chairman Yasser Arafat.](https://www.gannett-cdn.com/presto/2022/09/02/USAT/66d9744f-3536-410d-ac13-6a912f044346-GettyImages-484785895.jpg?crop=1708,2048,x0,y0&width=300&height=360&format=pjpg&auto=webp)
The “butcher of Baghdad,” by bullying his means into tiny Kuwait, proved his ruthlessness is aware of no boundaries.
Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi president who pledged to “scorch half of Israel” with poison fuel, who as soon as shot a colleague point-blank at a Cupboard assembly, who obliterated complete villages of ethnic Kurds, is on the warpath.
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