Drawing from such resources as newspaper articles, official publications and Hussein's public statements, speeches and writing, Saddam's World uses language to examine the Ba'th regime and its leader, Saddam Hussein. This is a study of how speech and language influenced and shaped what became the political culture of modern Iraq. Anyone who doubts the corrupting effects of totalitarianism on political language--if such a person could exist at the end of our century of totalitarianisms--should read this book. Bengio ... has compiled exhaustive evidence from the Iraqi sources to show how the Ba'thist regime in general and Saddam Hussein in particular have debased the political vocabulary of Iraq.