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How did Saddam successfully hang onto power for so long after the extremely costly invasions of Iran and Kuwait, the punishing sanctions regime, and being a Sunni in a Shia-dominated country? Was it the brutality, the relative secularism, or was there something more to it?

by /u/Ersatz_Okapi in /r/AskHistorians

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