Saddam Quotes - Page 14

• The view we took at the time and we take it now is that the war was justified legally because he [Saddam Hussein] remained in breach of UN resolutions.

  Tony Blair

  War, Views, Iraq

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• Iraq has stockpiled biological and chemical weapons, and is rebuilding the facilities used to make more of those weapons.

  George W. Bush

  Iraq, Fields, Doe

  "President: Iraqi Regime Danger to America is 'Grave and Growing'". Radio Address, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. October 5, 2002.

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• If he declares he has none, then we will know that Saddam Hussein is once again misleading the world.

  Ari Fleischer

  Wmd, Mass Destruction, Iraq

  "White House Awaits Iraqi Report With Skepticism". "CNN Live On Location", www.cnn.com. December 2, 2002.

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• It appears to be a re-run of a bad movie. [Iraqi President Saddam Hussein] is delaying. He's deceiving. He's asking for time. He's playing hide-and-seek with inspectors. One thing is for certain - he's not disarming.

  George W. Bush

  Running, Iraq, President

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• No terror state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the security of our people and the stability of the world than the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Iraq, People, World

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• No one that has ever been in combat ever wants to see war anywhere in the world. It is horrible. It's horrible looking at the pock-marked walls. It's horrible looking at the flesh embedded on walls in Bosnia. It was horrible looking and interviewing and talking to the kids who lost their parents, because Saddam Hussein decided to feed their parents to the lions in downtown Baghdad. To characterize particularly myself, but other groups, as wanting to advocate a war I think is not only disingenuous, I think it's a patent falsehood intentionally created to stigmatize a group of people.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Wall, War

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• There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that Saddam Hussein had and used significant weapons of mass destruction on his own people, both the Kurds and the Iranians.

  Curt Weldon

  Mass Destruction, People, Doubt

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• It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein.

  Adam Schiff

  Wisdom, War, Iraq

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• Iraq does pose a serious threat to the stability of the Persian Gulf and we should organize an international coalition to eliminate his access to weapons of mass destruction. Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to completely deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power.

  Al Gore

  Wmd, Mass Destruction, Iraq

  Al Gore's speech on Iraq, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2002.

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• The threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real, but as I said, it is not new. It has been with us since the end of that war, and particularly in the last 4 years we know after Operation Desert Fox failed to force him to reaccept them, that he has continued to build those weapons. He has had a free hand for 4 years to reconstitute these weapons, allowing the world, during the interval, to lose the focus we had on weapons of mass destruction and the issue of proliferation.

  John F. Kerry

  Real, War, Mass Destruction

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• Watch how the propaganda unfolds once the bombing is over and the Americans are running Baghdad and their spin machine. There will be the discovery of Saddam's secret arsenal, probably in the basement of one his palaces.

  John Pilger

  Running, Discovery, Secret

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• The Arabs are victims. You have Shia Arabs, under Arabization under Saddam Hussein, who were forcibly moved up there... You have Kurds who were displaced by these Arabs that were moved up there by Saddam Hussein. Kurds have been displaced from Kirkuk for hundreds of years.

  Raymond T. Odierno

  Years, Hussein, Victim

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• If you allow someone like Saddam Hussein to get nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles, chemical weapons, biological weapons, how many people is he going to kill with such weapons? He's already demonstrated a willingness to use these weapons. He poison-gassed his own people. He used poison gas and other weapons of mass destruction against his neighbors. This man has no compunction about killing lots and lots of people. So this is a way to save lives and to save the stability and peace of a region of the world that is important to the peace and security of the entire world.

  Al Gore

  Men, Mass Destruction, People

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• What if [Saddam] fails to comply and we fail to act, or we take some ambiguous third route, which gives him yet more opportunities to develop this program of weapons of mass destruction? ... Well, he will conclude that the international community has lost its will. He will then conclude that he can go right on and do more to rebuild an arsenal of devastating destruction. And some day, some way, I guarantee you he'll use the arsenal.

  William J. Clinton

  Opportunity, Mass Destruction, Iraq

  Clinton, William J. (1999). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1998”, p.233, Best Books on

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• I saw a threat in Saddam Hussein. Members of the United States Congress from both political parties saw that same threat. The United Nation's saw the threat. I made the right decision in getting Saddam Hussein out of power.

  George W. Bush

  Party, Political, Decision

  "President Bush in Georgia". President Bush's speech at a Georgia rally, www.nytimes.com. October 31, 2006.

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• An American soldier, Saddam in his sights, has a picture of a naked, buxom woman on his dashboard, an obvious affront to Muslim sensibilities.

  Margo Kingston

  Sight, Soldier, Dashboards

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• America was cool with Saddam Hussein when he was killing Iranians.

  Henry Rollins

  America, Hussein, Killing

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• We must recognize that there is no indication that Saddam Hussein has any intention of relenting. So we have an obligation of enormous consequence, an obligation to guarantee that Saddam Hussein cannot ignore the United Nations. He cannot be permitted to go unobserved and unimpeded toward his horrific objective of amassing a stockpile of weapons of mass destruction.

  John F. Kerry

  Mass Destruction, Guarantees That, Hussein

  John F. Kerry's Speech to the floor of the Senate, Congressional Record, November 9, 1997.

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• It was an agreement between Saddam (Hussein) and the shah of Iran and not between Iraq and Iran.

  Jalal Talabani

  Agreement, Iran, Iraq

  "Iran, Iraq Deal 'Still Stands'". www.news24.com. December 26, 2007.

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• No for the return of Saddam's Baath party. This is against the constitution and those who are negotiating to bring them back are violating the constitution.

  Jalal Talabani

  Party, Return, Constitution

  "Iraq President Rejects Study Group's Report". Los Angeles Times, December 10, 2006.

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• After he saw what happened to Saddam Hussein, he (Gadhafi) did not want to be Saddam Hussein. He gave up his nuclear program.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Nuclear, Hussein, Want

  "Rumsfeld doesn't support sending U.S. troops into Libya". "Piers Morgan Tonight", edition.cnn.com. March 9, 2011.

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• No one believes for a moment the embargo will prompt the Iraqi people to rise against Saddam Hussein.

  Alexander Cockburn

  Believe, People, Hussein

  "New millennium, old crime: those sanctions against Iraq" by Alexander Cockburn, freepress.org. January 12, 2000.

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• America has shown we are serious about removing the threat of weapons of mass destruction... We now know that Saddam Hussein had the capacity to produce weapons of mass destruction.... We know he had the necessary infrastructure because we found the labs and the dual-use facilities that could be used for these chemical and biological agents. We know that he was developing the delivery systems - ballistic missiles - that had been prohibited by the United Nations.

  Dick Cheney

  Mass Destruction, America, Use

  "Vice president urges Congress to make tax cuts permanent". usatoday30.usatoday.com. February 16, 2004.

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• So here's a question from one who believed, only a week ago, that Baghdad might just collapse and that we might wake up one morning to find the Baathist militia and the Iraqi army gone and the Americans walking down Saadun Street with their rifles over their shoulders. If the Iraqis can still hold out against such overwhelming force in Umm Qasr for four days, if they can keep fighting in Basra and Nasiriyah – the latter a city that briefly rose in revolt against Saddam's regime in 1991 – why should Saddam's forces not keep fighting in Baghdad?

  Robert Fisk

  Morning, Successful, Army

  "Robert Fisk: The shocking truth about 'shock and awe'" by Robert Fisk, www.independent.co.uk. March 25, 2003.

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• Saddam Hussein was a unique threat. And the world is better off without him in power.

  George W. Bush

  Unique, World, Hussein

  Debate at Washington University, www.cbsnews.com. October 8, 2004.

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