Saddam Quotes - Page 6

• The Donald Trump team hit back with a swift and stunning rebuke of the CIA. Quote, "These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction."

  Donald Trump

  Team, Mass Destruction, People

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• My hope was that by saying clearly to Saddam Hussein, "we're going to enforce UN Resolutions," that he would make the decision to leave peaceably and at least allow for inspectors to come into his country, and if he chose not to, there would be a military option. I want people to understand that the military was my last option. I had a strategy and hopefully solving the problem peacefully - and it wasn't just me, it was a coalition of nations that were involved.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Military, People

  Source: www.texasmonthly.com

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• No matter how tough Iraq became, removing Saddam Hussein was the right thing to do for the sake of peace and for the 25 million people we liberated.

  George W. Bush

  Iraq, People, Hussein

  Source: www.texasmonthly.com

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• I believe the world would have been a lot worse off if Saddam [Hussein] were in power today.

  George W. Bush

  Believe, World, Hussein

  Source: www.aarp.org

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• [Saddam Hussein] could have easily reconstituted a program. He was a threat to peace before we went in. He'd have been a threat to peace had we left him in power. Oftentimes history judges you on the decisions you make.

  George W. Bush

  Decisions You Make, Judging, Hussein

  Source: www.aarp.org

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• I regret the fact that Saddam [Hussein] didn't have weapons of mass destruction that we thought. I don't regret removing him from power.

  George W. Bush

  Regret, Mass Destruction, Hussein

  Source: www.aarp.org

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• There's a kind of decadence about all this: If 9/11 was really an inside job, you wouldn't be driving around with a bumper sticker bragging that you were on to it. Fantasy is a by-product of security: it's the difference between hanging upside down in your dominatrix's bondage parlor after work on Friday and enduring the real thing for years on end in Saddam's prisons.

  Mark Steyn

  Friday, Jobs, Real

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• I think when I close my eyes what I think is 4,500 days or so, 4,250 I guess days, was long enough to give Iraq to come into compliance with the international order. And I think to myself how many Iraqi citizens died under the brutal regime of Saddam Hussein during those 4,200 odd days, and I think to myself how many more citizens of how many nations, the United States, Israel, or any other neighbor would die if Saddam Hussein went unchecked, though I am just grieved by the sacrifice of our brave men and women, but I think ultimately the greater good is served.

  Richard Armitage

  Eye, Sacrifice, Men

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• It [the intelligence service] concludes that Iraq has chemical and biological weapons, that Saddam has continued to produce them, that he has existing and active military plans for the use of chemical and biological weapons, which could be activated within 45 minutes, including against his own Shia population; and that he is actively trying to acquire nuclear weapons capability.

  Tony Blair

  Military, Intelligence Services, Iraq

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• He has systematically violated, over the course of the past 11 years, every significant UN resolution that has demanded that he disarm and destroy his chemical and biological weapons, and any nuclear capacity. This he has refused to do.

  Henry Waxman

  Past, Wmd, Mass Destruction

  "Letters to the Editor". thetimes-tribune.com. May 23, 2010.

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• An American-led overthrow of Saddam Hussein - and the replacement of the radical Baathist dictatorship with a new government more closely aligned with the United States would put America more wholly in charge of the region than any power since the Ottomans, or maybe even the Romans.

  David Frum

  Usa, Tyrants, Iraq

  David Frum (2003). “The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush”, p.164, Random House

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• Today, Iraq is an immediate danger to our nation. This time, we cannot wait. We cannot wait for Saddam Hussein to take a devastating action or to transfer a weapon of mass destruction to someone else who will. After September 11th, it is simply no longer an option to sit back and contemplate an enemy - one with a stated intent to harm us, a track record and the means, and just wait for him to strike in order to protect ourselves.

  Richard Armitage

  Mean, Iraq, Mass Destruction

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• What we said publicly is that we know that Saddam Hussein has chemical weapons, he's used them; we know about his biological weapons programs; and in the nuclear equation, left to his own devices, with no fissile material, by the end of the decade, he'll have a nuclear weapon. But if fissile material is provided to Saddam Hussein, he'll have a nuclear weapon within a year, so I'd say the year is the outside timetable.

  Richard Armitage

  Years, Iraq, Nuclear

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• The possibility that Saddam Hussein will use his biological and chemical weapons to attack us, directly or in concert with terrorists, cannot be dismissed.

  Sandy Berger

  Iraq, Use, Hussein

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• What we need now is not just a regime change in Saddam Hussein and Iraq, but we need a regime change in the United States.

  John F. Kerry

  Change, Iraq, United States

  "Kerry's 'Regime Change' Comments Draw Fire". www.foxnews.com. April 3, 2003.

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• The removal of Saddam Hussein and his replacement by someone beholden to the United States is a key part of a broader United States strategy aimed at assuring permanent American global dominance.

  Michael Klare

  Keys, Usa, Iraq

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• The sheer violence of it, the howl of air raid sirens and the air-cutting fall of the missiles carried its own political message; not just to President Saddam but to the rest of the world. We are the superpower, those explosions said last night. This is how we do business.

  Robert Fisk

  Fall, Cutting, Night

  "Bubbles of fire tore into the sky above Baghdad" by Robert Fisk, www.independent.co.uk. March 21, 2003.

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• Once we destroyed the Saddam regime, we knew there was going to be a civil war.

  William Eldridge Odom

  War, Hippie, Regimes

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• The money from Iraqi oil will be yours - it will no longer be used by Saddam Hussein for his own benefit.

  Tony Blair

  Oil, Iraq, Benefits

  Tony Blair's Open Letter to Iraq, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2003.

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• No one has done what Saddam Hussein has done, or is thinking of doing. He is producing weapons of mass destruction, and he is qualitatively and quantitatively different from other dictators.

  Madeleine Albright

  Thinking, Wmd, Mass Destruction

  "U.S. policy on Iraq draws fire in Ohio". www.cnn.com. February 18, 1998.

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• In a speech earlier today President Bush said if Iraq gets rid of Saddam Hussein, he will help the Iraqi people with food, medicine, supplies, housing, education - anything that's needed. Isn't that amazing? He finally comes up with a domestic agenda - and it's for Iraq. Maybe we could bring that here if it works out.

  Jay Leno

  Iraq, Medicine, People

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• We must stop Saddam from ever again jeopardizing the stability and security of his neighbors with weapons of mass destruction.

  Madeleine Albright

  Wmd, Mass Destruction, Weapons

  Press Conference, 1997-2001.state.gov. February 1, 1998.

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• The United States Central Command of the Armed Forces has asked Geraldo Rivera to leave Iraq. It should also be noted that the only three other people that the U.S. military has asked to leave Iraq are Saddam Hussein and his two sons.

  Jon Stewart

  Military, Son, Two

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• The Arab peoples possess an ancient and highly developed civilization that is in many ways more sophisticated than our own. For instance, they invented algebra. And this is why we have to go to war with Saddam Hussein this minute and bomb the shish kebab out of him before he invents trig and chemistry and the whole of America flunks high school.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, War, Humorous

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.281, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• We've thrown out Saddam and Saddam, dead or alive, is finished in Iraq.

  Paul Bremer

  Iraq, Alive, Thrown

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