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The Age of Peace

position. However, he continued to fight unnecessarily until on
December 20, 2006 he was executed. Saddam Hussein was an
educated person. Had he drawn lessons from history, it would
have been possible for him to live in Iraq as in a “Vatican”.
At that time, Saddam Hussein owned eight palaces in
Iraq. U.N. documents list eight main Saddam Hussein palace
compounds containing more than 1,000 buildings – luxury
mansions, smaller guest villas, office complexes, warehouses
and garages – and covering some 32 square kilometres (7,900
acres) in total.

The area of the Vatican is a mere 110 acres, while the
cumulative area of Saddam Hussein’s eight palaces was 7,900
acres. This story shows that it could have been possible for
Saddam Hussein to establish a peaceful kingdom for himself.
He could have given up political power and, with his eight
palaces, he could have built the largest university of the world.
Stanford University, the second largest university in the world
at present, has an area of 8,000 acres. Had Saddam Hussein
changed his thinking from the political to the peaceful, he
could have made a university compound of 7,900 acres. It
would have been regarded as one of the biggest educational
centres in the world.

Saddam Hussein was obsessed with political power and so
he could not understand the importance of the non-political
option available to him. This is the case of all Muslim leaders of
the present age—they have remained unrealistically obsessed
with political power. But political power has limitations, so it
has not been possible for them to achieve their goals through
it. When they have not been able to achieve their goals, they
have become seriously frustrated, as inevitably happens when
human beings go against the law of nature.

Barack Obama entered the White House on January 20,
2009 as the President of the United States of America. He was
also elected to serve a second term in November 2012, and

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