Saddam Quotes - Page 21

When Saddam Hussein's Iraqi forces invaded Kuwait in 1990, I felt America's post-Cold War commitment to national principles and international leadership was on the line. I was dismayed by the wide opposition among my fellow Democrats. To me, their position was wrong.

Joe Lieberman

War, Commitment, Kuwait

"In Praise Of Public Life". Book by Joseph I. Lieberman, 2000.

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I'm bangin' from Belize to Tel Aviv on the Red Sea
Racin' Saddam Hussein on Kawasaki jet ski's

Ras Kass

Sea, Hip Hop, Hussein

Song: Rasassanation, Album: Rasassination, 1998

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A secret blueprint for US global domination reveals that President Bush and his cabinet were planning a premeditated attack on Iraq to secure regime change even before he took power in January 2001... It has been called a secret blueprint for US global domination. ... A small group of people with a plan to remove Saddam Hussein long before George W. Bush was elected president. ... And 9/11 provided the opportunity to set it in motion. Not since Mein Kampf has a geopolitical punch been so blatantly telegraphed years ahead of the blow.

Ted Koppel

Opportunity, Blow, Years

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I can't do anything too serious like Saddam Hussein, but I would like to do Bill Clinton. That'd be fun.

Ruby Wax

Fun, Bills, Serious

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And I don't want posture lessons from a country that spent the last 20 years flopping on its back and grabbing its ankles when Saddam showed up waving stacks of Francs in exchange for bang-sticks.

James Lileks

Country, Years, Bangs

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We promise that the events of 1991 will not happen again. We have pledged to remove Saddam. And we will deliver.

Tony Blair

Iraq, Promise, Events

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

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The war against terrorism will not be finished as long as he [Saddam Hussein] is in power.

Christopher Dodd

War, Long, Hussein

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Howard Dean is not the first politician to distort facts in his own interests. But many activists in the party he now leads are puzzled over what he thinks he is accomplishing politically. Is it good politics to contend that Iraq was better off under Saddam Hussein than even a flawed Islamic republic.

Robert Novak

Party, Islamic, Thinking

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My point was that removing Saddam should not have been our highest priority. Fighting terrorism should have been our number one concern, followed by the Palestinian peace process.

Brent Scowcroft

Fighting, Should Have, Numbers

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The question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth? And the answer is not very damned many.

Dick Cheney

Peace, War, Mind

"Cheney in Charge". www.washingtonpost.com. October 24, 2006.

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It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priority as unfinished business from the first Bush Administration. His agenda was clear: find a rationale to get rid of Saddam.

Edward Kennedy

Unfinished Business, Iraq, Office

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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No one from the intelligence community, anyplace else ever came in and said, ‘What if Saddam is doing all this deception because he actually got rid of the WMD and he doesn't want the Iranians to know?' Now somebody should have asked that question. I should have asked that question. Nobody did. Turns out that was the most important question in terms of the intelligence failure that never got asked.

Stephen Hadley

Wmd, Should Have, Community

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On a day when all Americans, regardless of party affiliation, are celebrating the growth of freedom and honoring the sacrifices of American and Iraqi troops with elections in Iraq, it's sad that John Kerry has chosen once again to offer vacillation and defeatism. Even after the first free elections in Iraq in more than 50 years John Kerry still believes Iraq is more of terrorist threat than when the brutal tyrant Saddam Hussein was in power and even more remarkably Kerry is now once again for funding our troops, after being for the funding before he was against it.

Ken Mehlman

Party, Believe, Sacrifice

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In 2003 I was saying, where are the ties [between Iraq] and al-Qaida? Where are the ties to 9/11? I knew it; where the f**k were these Democrats who said, 'We were misled'? That's the kind of thing that drives me crazy: 'We were misled.' F**k you, you weren't misled. You were afraid of being called unpatriotic.

George Clooney

Crazy, Lying, Iraq

"I've learned how to fight". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2006.

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It was known in the mid 90s already that Saddam Hussein was a dangerous tyrant that he had already launched aggressions against Iran, he had invaded Kuwait.

Douglas J. Feith

Iran, Kuwait, Tyrants

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Yes, I think lots of people are eager to obtain weapons of mass destruction. But there's no evidence that he has weapons of mass destruction. There's been no evidence of him testing nuclear weapons.

We have people that are in our face with nuclear weapons. We've got Iran and North Korea. We've got a problem with Pakistan. You know, I don't know what to say about that.

There's a whole lot of people that are going nuclear. And I think that Saddam Hussein is actually, with the evidence, the least able to use nuclear weapons and the least obvious offender in that area at this moment.

Janeane Garofalo

Thinking, Mass Destruction, Iran

"Fox News Sunday" with Tony Snow, www.foxnews.com. February 24, 2003.

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Saddam's removal is necessary to eradicate the threat from his weapons of mass destruction

Jack Straw

Wmd, Mass Destruction, Weapons

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The big debate right now is if Saddam is alive or dead. He's dead, then he's alive, then dead, then alive. It's just confusing. Today they showed videotape, and Saddam was speaking at his own funeral.

David Letterman

Funeral, Confusing, Alive

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What we also know is we haven't found them [weapons of mass destruction] in Iraq - now let the survey group complete its work and give us the report... They will not report that there was no threat from Saddam, I don't believe.

Tony Blair

Believe, Iraq, Mass Destruction

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As I have said throughout, I have no doubt that they will find the clearest possible evidence of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction.

Tony Blair

Mass Destruction, Iraq, Doubt

House of Commons, 6th series, vol. 406, col. 161, publications.parliament.uk. June 4, 2003.

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We are asked now seriously to accept that in the last few years-contrary to all history, contrary to all intelligence-Saddam decided unilaterally to destroy those weapons. I say that such a claim is palpably absurd.

Tony Blair

Years, Iraq, Weapons

"Tony Blair's Iraq War speech in full: How Labour's leader convinced MPs to vote for era-defining conflict". Article by Dan Bloom, www.mirror.co.uk. July 5, 2016.

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The intelligence is clear: (Saddam) continues to believe his WMD programme is essential both for internal repression and for external aggression.

Tony Blair

Believe, Wmd, Iraq

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US special forces are closing in on Saddam Hussain but they're afraid to go in. He's hiding out in Tony Martin's farmhouse.

Patrick Kielty

America, Special, Hussain

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A headline last year, after the death of Saddam Hussein, read: 'Tyrant is hanged'. My auntie looked at the newspaper and sobbed, 'Who's going to present "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?"'

Steve Williams

Tyrants, Years, Want

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I am sorry, but if you believe the newest death of OBL, you're stupid. Just think to yourself - they paraded Saddam's dead sons around to prove they were dead - why do you suppose they hastily buried this version of OBL at sea? This lying, murderous Empire can only exist with your brainwashed consent - just put your flags away and THINK!

Cindy Sheehan

Sorry, Lying, Stupid

Facebook post by Cindy Sheehan, www.facebook.com. May 2, 2011.

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