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Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti (Arabic: صدام حسين عبد المجيد التكريتي Ṣaddām Ḥusayn ʿAbd al-Maǧīd al-Tikrītī; 28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was the fifth President of Iraq, serving in this capacity from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003. A leading member of the revolutionary Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, and later, the Baghdad-based Ba'ath Party and its regional organisation Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region, which espoused ba'athism, a mix of Arab nationalism and Arab socialism, Saddam played a key role in the 1968 coup, later referred to as the 17 July Revolution, that brought the party to long-term power of Iraq.
As vice president under the ailing General Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, and at a time when many groups were considered capable of overthrowing the government, Saddam created security forces through which he tightly controlled conflict between the government and the armed forces. In the early 1970s, Saddam nationalized oil and other industries. The state-owned banks were put under his control, leaving the system eventually insolvent mostly due to the Iran–Iraq War, the Gulf War, and UN sanctions. Through the 1970s, Saddam cemented his authority over the apparatuses of government as oil money helped Iraq's economy to grow at a rapid pace. Positions of power in the country were filled with Sunnis, a minority that made up only a fifth of the population.
Joseph Robinette "Joe" Biden, Jr. (pronunciation: /ˈdʒoʊsɨf rɒbɨˈnɛt ˈbaɪdən/; born November 20, 1942) is the 47th and current Vice President of the United States, serving under President Barack Obama. A Democrat, he was a United States Senator from Delaware from January 3, 1973 until his resignation on January 15, 2009, following his election to the Vice Presidency.
Biden was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania and lived there for ten years before moving to Delaware. He became an attorney in 1969, and was elected to a county council in 1970. Biden was first elected to the Senate in 1972 and became the sixth-youngest senator in U.S. history. He was re-elected to the Senate six times, was the fourth most senior senator at the time of his resignation, and is the 15th-longest serving Senator in history. Biden was a long-time member and former chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. His strong advocacy helped bring about U.S. military assistance and intervention during the Bosnian War. He opposed the Gulf War in 1991. He voted in favor of the Iraq War Resolution in 2002, but later proposed resolutions to alter U.S. strategy there. He has also served as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, dealing with issues related to drug policy, crime prevention, and civil liberties, and led creation of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act and Violence Against Women Act. He chaired the Judiciary Committee during the contentious U.S. Supreme Court nominations of Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas.
Actors: Jeff Bridges (actor), Greg Kuehn (composer), Robin Jones (actress), Claudia Castello (editor), Cecy Rangel (producer), Jim James (actor), Agi Orsi (producer), Mick LeGrande (editor), Lu Elrod (actress), Lu Elrod (actress), C. Scott Shuffitt (actor), Jerry Haleva (actor), Jerry Haleva (actor), Becky Jones (actress), Eddie Chung (director),
Genres: Documentary,Actors: James Evans (actor), James Evans (writer), Michael Q. Schmidt (actor), James Evans (director), Val Tasso (actor), James Evans (producer), Michael Q. Schmidt (producer), Joey Sylvester (producer), Joey Sylvester (actor), Joey Sylvester (writer), Rick Basabilvazo (composer), Christopher Lee Williams (editor), Enan J. Ring (actor), Anna Kholyavenko (editor),
Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Short, War,Actors: Philip Hersh (actor), Emilio Roso (actor), Jeffery Alan Jones (composer), James Evans (actor), Luis Fernandez-Gil (actor), Cindy Clark (actress), Yasmine Hanani (actress), Bruce Van Patten (actor), Sujata Day (actress), Janet May (actress), Fred Dekom (actor), Janeline Hayes (actress), Shaun Kurtz (actor), Hayati Akbas (actor), Nicholas Jacobs (actor),
Plot: Poking nasty fun at the Bush Administration, action movies and itself, WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION is a heart-warming story of John Lincoln, a blaxploitation actor who finds himself out of work due to his participation in his son's grade-school anti-war protest in the winter of 2003. As his fortunes plummet and the President increases pressure to invade Iraq, Lincoln naively decides to draw on his past experience in the Special Ops Forces, and travel to Iraq to rid the world of Saddam Hussein himself - and thus avert a disastrous war. Through a series of misadventures, he manages to dispose of Saddam, but that's when things get weird. Lincoln returns to the United States and is personally invited to Camp David by President George W. Bush, himself. But during a weenie roast at a Camp David campsite, George W. reveals a terrible international secret to Lincoln, something that causes him to fight for his life!
Keywords: saddam-husseinActors: Peter Jennings (actor), Michael Keaton (actor), Peter Jason (actor), Paul Guilfoyle (actor), Saddam Hussein (actor), David Kaye (actor), Dick Cheney (actor), Brian George (actor), Castulo Guerra (actor), Kurt Fuller (actor), Clark Gregg (actor), Tom Brokaw (actor), George Bush (actor), Joshua Leonard (actor), Kevin Bacon (actor),
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Keywords: baghdad-iraq, based-on-book, based-on-true-story, city-name-in-title, cnn, gulf-war, hotel, iraq, manipulation, place-name-in-titleActors: Frank Welker (actor), Olympia Dukakis (actress), Louis Mandylor (actor), Sam Sako (actor), Alex Trebek (actor), Christina Applegate (actress), Tony Lo Bianco (actor), Larry Laverty (actor), Sherman Hemsley (actor), Jay Mohr (actor), Vincent Pastore (actor), Stefan Lysenko (actor), Lloyd Bridges (actor), Peter Abrams (producer), Isabel Sanford (actress),
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Plot: When "The Dude" Lebowski is mistaken for a millionaire Lebowski, two thugs urinate on his rug to coerce him into paying a debt he knows nothing about. While attempting to gain recompense for the ruined rug from his wealthy counterpart, he accepts a one-time job with high pay-off. He enlists the help of his bowling buddy, Walter, a gun-toting Jewish-convert with anger issues. Deception leads to more trouble, and it soon seems that everyone from porn empire tycoons to nihilists want something from The Dude.
Keywords: 1990s, abstract-art, absurd-humor, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, alcohol, amateur, american-mythology, answering-machine, anti-war, artistActors: C. Ransom Walrod (actor), Valeria Golino (actress), Mitch Ryan (actor), Charlie Sheen (actor), Rowan Atkinson (actor), Martin Sheen (actor), Clyde Kusatsu (actor), Michael Colyar (actor), Gerald Okamura (actor), Miguel Ferrer (actor), Richard Crenna (actor), Lloyd Bridges (actor), James Lew (actor), Pat Proft (writer), Pat Proft (producer),
Plot: Topper Harley is found working as an odd-job-man in a monastery. The CIA wants him to lead a rescue mission into Iraq, to rescue the last rescue team, who went in to rescue the last rescue team who... who went in to rescue hostages left behind after Desert Storm. The President is Tug Benson, who also likes to be in on the action. Basically, it's a send-up of all the big shoot-em-up Rambo/Robocop/T2/Commando-type movies.
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Genres: Animation, Comedy,