“[The] law is anything I write on a piece of paper .” Such was the hubris of Iraq’s strongman Saddam Hussein. The aforementioned quote echoes the sentiments of a president who ruled over a populous Arab nation with up to 90% of revenues derived from oil wealth. Bordering Iraq, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan survives not as a dictatorship but as a monarchy. Saddam Hussein shared close relations with the ...