Published: Friday, June 1, 2007. 1  The Moon's increasing distance has to do with a physics concept called angular momentum, which is a body's resistance to a change in its rotation or orbit. If we look at the Earth-Moon system, we find two sources of angular momentum â Earth, which rotates once every 24 hours, and the Moon, which orbits the Earth every 27.3 days. The Moon's increasing distance has to do with a physics concept called angular momentum, which is a body's resistance to a change in its rotation or orbit.
Saddam is hanged at 6 a.m. on 30 December. His body is buried the next day at al-Awja, his home village. Comment: There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein was a ruthless killer and that his regime was dictatorial, murderous and repugnant. Up to 450,000 Iraqi and 730,000 Iranian combatants died during the Iran-Iraq War.
His most controversial act was the invasion of Iraq on the belief that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein posed a grave threat to the United States. Saddam was captured, but the disruption of Iraq and the killing of American servicemen and friendly Iraqis by insurgents became the challenge of Bushâs government as he began his second term.