Saddam-Mercury Personified?
NATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOMOEOPATHY 2003 Jan / Feb VOL V NO 1.
Dr (Mrs) Kauser Aga
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April 28, 1937 is the declared birth date of Saddam Hussein in the village of Ouja, near Tikrit in northern Iraq. He is born in a very poor family. His father dies, or disappears, before Saddam is born. Several reports link Saddam to the murders of a school teacher and a cousin during these early years. Mother attempted suicide when pregnant with Saddam.
When we look into the personality of Saddam we find he is long-limbed, has big, strong hands with an impressive height of six feet two and weighs btw 210 to 220 pounds. He has a certain elegance of manner, the way a country boy learns to match the right tie with the right suit.
Mercury, commonly known as quicksilver, has a very shiny
appearance which makes it look attractive. Mercury as a metal is very mobile
just like the way Saddam is moveable into plenty of his bunkers. Mercury metal
is very slippery and cannot be caught, just as Saddam has escaped from
the many attempts made to kill him.
Saddam is a king with strong leadership attitude. Mercury is
known to be the king with leadership tendency as it falls in the aurum series.
In 1959 Saddam attempted to assassinate the then Prime Minister of Iraq. While in 1964 he was arrested for charges accusing him of rebelling against the regime, and in 1968 he participated in a coup to overthrow the then Iraqi President. He is a Revolutionary, involved in military activities with a definite desire to rebel. This forms the main theme of Mercurius, being an anarchist revolutionary.
The essence of Mercurius according to Shelton is ‘the
position of power is being threatened’. They want to hold power at any
cost, but they feel they are being threatened. They become dictatorial and
cannot take intolerance. Saddam is known to be a dictator who has love for
power, and not love for money in contrast to his family members who are
spendthrifts. If Saddam would have the love for money he would have supplied his
oil to various countries to become rich. With the present war, he feels his
power is being threatened by Bush. About Saddam, Dr Post a political
psychologist says ‘power is the only language which Saddam understands’.
Although Saddam now claims, he does not possess any weapons
of mass destruction, he is known to have used them in his war against Iran in
the 80s against the Kurds in 1988. Why does he want weapons of mass destruction?
In many respects, he has himself suggested that they make him strong, they help
him stay in power at home, and they help him fight what he thinks are his
enemies inside and outside his kingdom.
The root of Saddam’s bloody, single-minded pursuit of power appears to be simple vanity or pride. Saddam is known to be very haughty with a colossal ego. We find exaggerated arrogance and egotism in Mercurius with ailments from egotism too.
Saddam is dictatorial and dominating when he asks for someone’s opinion, he listens very carefully and doesn’t interrupt. Likewise, he gets irritated if someone interrupts him. ‘Let me finish!’ he will say sharply, so much so that there is an incidence where he shot a person for contradicting him. For all, but his closest aides, the protocol for meeting with the dictator is simple: "Don’t interrupt," they were told. "Don’t ask questions or make any requests."
Mercurius is known to be dictatorial and dominating; the
rubric is Kill desire, contradicts her, the person that which has just
two remedies one being Merc.
Mercurius also has tremendous anger with a strong aggravation
from contradiction. Merc is quarrelsome. impulsive, intolerant and audacious.
Hussein’s personality, Dr Post says, is marked by extreme self-absorption, grandiosity, paranoia: "not crazy, but ready to be attacked, and to attack" for which one can take the rubric fight wants to, violent, quarrelsome etc.
One very important rubric which we find in Mercurius
is misanthropathy which means desires solitude in order to avoid human
kind, which we find in Saddam as to how he avoids society, which is partially
also due to his mistrustful nature.
Saddam is also very deceitful, censorious and fraudulent like Mercurius
Saddam has been destructive throughout; he has been destroying his own oil wells so that it is not taken over by the Americans. Several reports link Saddam to the murders of a school teacher and/or a cousin during those early years and so is Mercurius the ‘king of syphilis’ with destructivity at both mental and physical levels .
He is a very responsible person and a workaholic too, reportedly sleeping only four hours a night. This being another characteristic of Mercurius; we find merc in the rubric industrious, mania for work. Mercurius has exaggerated responsibility. They are hard workers and can be workaholic says Scholten.
Scholten says that Mercurius are monogamous, but once they have sexual contact with someone they can also have different sexual partners. Saddam has been married for nearly forty years. His wife has borne him two sons and three daughters, and remains loyal to him, but he has long had relationships with other women. Stories circulate about his nightly selecting young virgins for his bed.
Mercurius cannot trust people easily, hence they feel terribly alone as a leader, they feel everybody has turned as their enemy and a fear of being killed. One of the reasons of Saddam having so many clones is that he cannot trust people. There is also a feeling of being killed by his own people. Hence, he tries to control everybody by dictatorial measures.
What ailments Saddam suffers from?
Just like Mercurius limps Saddam too has got a limp
due to his bad back and legs. But now it is too dangerous to walk in public-and
the limp must not be seen, so Saddam makes no more unscripted public
appearances. He limps freely behind the high walls and patrolled fences of his
vast estates.
Saddam has a desire for dairy products and wine just similar to the craving of milk, butter and wine of Mercurius.
All in all, Saddam is the embodiment of haughty, dictatorial, shining and slippery Mercury.
