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• Saddam Hussein's trial would not be public since he could name countries and persons whom he gave money.

  Ayad Allawi

  Country, Names, Trials

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• Saddam Hussein has openly admitted to the rest of the world that he had weapons of mass destruction. He used those weapons to kill his own people.

  Saxby Chambliss

  Mass Destruction, People, World

  "Questions surround WMD hunt" by David Ensor, www.cnn.com. June 18, 2003.

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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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• We have to go massively, like we did in the first Gulf War where we destroyed Saddam's ability to take Kuwait. We need to have a coalition that will stand for nothing less than the total destruction of ISIS and we have to be the leader.

  John Kasich

  War, Isis, Kuwait

  John Kasich's remarks during the CNN-Facebook Republican Presidential Second Debate at the Venetian Las Vegas hosted by Wolf Blitzer, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

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• The cost of an on-site inspection team would be minuscule compared to war, Saddam would have no choice except to comply, the results would be certain, military and civilian casualties would be avoided, there would be almost unanimous worldwide support, and the United States could regain its leadership in combating the real threat of international terrorism.

  Jimmy Carter

  Military, Real, War

  "Carter: Iraq threat does not justify war", www.cnn.com. January 31, 2003.

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• The White House was signaling that the threat posed by Saddam Hussein was of such urgency that it had priority over the crushing of al Qaeda.

  Bob Graham

  Crush, White, House

  "Cheney’s Trouble with the Truth" by Robert Scheer, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 23, 2005.

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• The point of a library's existence is not persuasion or evangelism, but knowledge. It is irrelevant to the good library whether, as an institution, it shares or promotes your core values or mine, or the Attorney General's or Saddam Hussein's. The library is always an instrument of choice, and the choice is always yours, not your elected or designated leaders.

  Robert Hughes

  Choices, Leader, Library

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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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• With overwhelming military strength now deployed against him and with intense monitoring from space surveillance and the U.N. inspection team on the ground, any belligerent move by Saddam against a neighbor would be suicidal....If Iraq does possess such concealed weapons, as is quite likely, Saddam would use them only in the most extreme circumstances, in the face of an invasion of Iraq, when all hope of avoiding the destruction of his regime is lost.

  Jimmy Carter

  Military, Team, Moving

  "Carter: Iraq threat does not justify war", www.cnn.com. January 31, 2003.

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• The fact is that there is now, we know well, a proliferation of nuclear weapons, and that many weapons that Saddam Hussein had, we don't know where they are. That means terrorists have access to all of that.

  Paul Martin

  Mean, Wmd, Nuclear

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• The United States armed forces and coalition troops deserve recognition and support for their work to remove Saddam Hussein from power, and ensure the safety and security of the American people, civilians abroad, and the people of Iraq.

  Mark Kennedy

  Iraq, People, Safety

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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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• Oh, indeed there is a tie between Iraq and what happened on 9/11. It's not that Saddam Hussein was somehow himself and his regime involved in 9/11, but, if you think about what caused 9/11, it is the rise of ideologies of hatred that lead people to drive airplanes into buildings in New York.

  Condoleezza Rice

  New York, Airplane, Thinking

  CBS News, November 28, 2003.

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• Nuclear weapons are to be worried about only when they're in the hands of Ronald Reagan - not so much when they're in the hands of a Third World anti-imperialist like Saddam Hussein. Can't you see?

  Jay Nordlinger

  Hands, Nuclear, World

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• Long live Iraq! Long live the Iraqi people! Down with the traitors!

  Saddam Hussein

  Iraq, Long, People

  "Saddam Hussein Sentenced to Death". news.bbc.co.uk. November 05, 2006.

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• Saddam was tranquillised when captured ... He would be a lion even when caged. Every honest person who knows Saddam knows that he is firm and powerful.

  Raghad Hussein

  Powerful, Lions, Would Be

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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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• Once the war against Saddam begins, we expect every American to support our military, and if they can't do that, to shut up.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Military, War, Support

  "Happy Birthday 'Terror Television'". www.abc.net.au. October 26, 2006.

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