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Judging from the history after World War II, the world is still not peaceful, wars are still going on, and there are still hundreds of wars, large and small. However, judging from the cost and benefit of the war, the last war that should be fought, or the most meaningless war, is the Iran-Iraq war, which lasted for eight years, comparable to the time of World War II. But in fact, as early as 1982, it may have ended, because Saddam Hussein proposed peace talks at that time, but Khomeini refused, and because Khomeini refused, Saddam personally shot his health minister. Why? Because he said something wrong.

At the beginning of the Iran-Iraq war, Iraq fought smoothly and swept the hinterland of Iran. However, the Iranian army quickly recovered, and Khomeini engaged in maritime tactics without sacrifice, so he gradually defeated the Iraqi army. When the war hit 1982, Saddam saw that there was no oil and water to fish for, the cost of the war was huge, and Iraq was a little untenable.

So on June 20th, 1982, he unexpectedly put down his posture, made peace with Khomeini, and suggested that the two countries withdraw their troops at the same time, restore the original state and end the war. But Khomeini is bent on jihad, overthrowing Iraq, establishing the Iraqi version of the unity of church and state, and continuing to consolidate his power through war. So I directly put forward two conditions, one is compensation, and the other is that Saddam must step down.

Saddam was very angry about this, saying that the compensation was paid, but it was impossible for him to step down, so Saddam refused directly and went to war directly. But in order to show that he is not so dictatorial, Saddam Hussein held a cabinet meeting at the presidential residence in Baghdad at the end of the month. Attending the meeting were mainly senior officials of the party, government and army and ministers of various ministries and commissions. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss what to do.

This time Khomeini refused to call a truce and put forward these two conditions. According to Saddam Hussein's subtext, that is to inspire our common enemy to continue fighting and defeat Iran. But at the meeting, the Iraqi health minister stood up. He thought he was clever and put forward a plan to solve the war. He suggested to Saddam that he could pretend to step down, then come to power and return to power after withdrawing troops.

In response to this suggestion, senior Iraqi officials present at the time were too scared to speak. Hearing this, Saddam Hussein did not have an attack, but asked the main officials present very calmly: Do you agree with the Minister of Health? At that time, officials did not know whether to agree or disagree, and basically did not speak. Seeing this, Saddam directly grabbed the Minister of Health, dragged him out of the house, pulled out his gun and shot him directly.

From the moment you heard the gunshots, you naturally got the message. All of you were scared and clamored to fight Iran to the end, which ended the meeting successfully. Many people didn't understand later that the Minister of Health had a good idea. Why did Saddam shoot him? In fact, the reason is very simple. As a dictator, Saddam came to power by violence, so he regarded his authority as supreme.

On the one hand, no one is allowed to challenge its authority; On the other hand, no one is allowed to give up authority for a moment. The Minister of Health didn't know this, but he hit a gun and asked Saddam to pretend to step down. Isn't this death? From this, we can also see Saddam's viciousness.

As a powerful man, he refused to listen to any advice, which made Iraqi officials afraid to tell Saddam the truth. This is also the main reason why Saddam can't get the real situation of both sides of the Gulf War and the Iraq War. Because no one dared to tell Saddam the truth, otherwise his life would be in danger, so Saddam did as he said.

References: the history of the Iran-Iraq war.