Saddam Quotes - Page 7

• I don't know if, at the end of the day, how brave Saddam Hussein would be if he were stripped of his bodyguards and everything else.

  Richard Armitage

  Brave, The End Of The Day, Would Be

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• Letting off ammunition in every direction, Allah is my only protection. But wait a minute, Saddam Hussein prays the same.

  Louis Eric Barrier

  Religious, Waiting, Religion

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• I, for one, will not have [the Vietcong] insulted by any comparison to the forces of Zarqawi, the Fedayeen Saddam, and the criminal underworld now arrayed against us. These depraved elements are the Iraqi Khmer Rouge.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Criminals, Elements, Force

  "The Hell of War" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. June 5, 2006.

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• If Saddam Hussein is unwilling to bend to the international community's already existing order, then he will have invited enforcement, even if that enforcement is mostly at the hands of the United States, a right we retain even if the Security Council fails to act.

  John F. Kerry

  Hands, Order, Community

  "We Still Have a Choice on Iraq" by John F. Kerry, www.nytimes.com. September 6, 2002.

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• Hawks favor war on the grounds that Saddam Hussein is reckless, tyrannical and instinctively aggressive, and that if he comes into possession of nuclear weapons in addition to the weapons of mass destruction he already has, he is likely to use them or share them with terrorists. The threat of mass death on a scale never before seen residing in the hands of an unstable madman is intolerable – and must be preempted.

  Charles Krauthammer

  War, Mass Destruction, Hands

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• Canada used to be...one of our most...most loyal friends, and vice versa. I mean, Canada sent troops to Vietnam. Was Vietnam less containable and more of a threat than Saddam Hussein?

  Ann Coulter

  Mean, Vices, Troops

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• Either we're removing a dictator who currently has plans to fund terrorism against American citizens or -- if Bush is completely wrong and Eleanor Clift is completely right -- we're just removing a dictator who plans to terrorize a lot of people in the region, but not Americans specifically. Even for someone like me, who doesn't want America to be the world's policeman, the risk of precipitous action against Saddam Hussein doesn't keep me up at night.

  Ann Coulter

  Night, America, People

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• There can be no doubt that Saddam Hussein has biological weapons and the capability to rapidly produce more, many more.

  Colin Powell

  Doubt, Hussein, Weapons

  Address to the United Nations Security Council, delivered 5 February 2003

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• Removing Saddam Hussein was the right decision early in my presidency, it is the right decision now, and it will be the right decision ever.

  George W. Bush

  Decision, Hussein, Bushism

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• [Even if the U.S. doesn't attack] Saddam Hussein is not going to survive. His regime is on the verge of implosion.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Hussein, Regimes, Verge

  Simon Cottee, Thomas Cushman, Christopher Hitchens (2008). “Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left”, p.5248, NYU Press

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• There was no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with the attack of 9/11, I've never said that and never made that case prior to going into Iraq.

  George W. Bush

  Iraq, Hussein, Made

  "Founders v. Bush". Book by Steve Coffman, 2007.

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• The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.

  George W. Bush

  Wmd, Government, Iraq

  Second Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered January 28, 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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• Heavy as they are, the costs of action must be weighed against the price of inaction. If Saddam defies the world and we fail to respond, we will face a far greater threat in the future. Saddam will strike again at his neighbors; he will make war on his own people. And mark my words, he will develop weapons of mass destruction. He will deploy them, and he will use them.

  William J. Clinton

  War, Mass Destruction, Iraq

  "Transcript: President Clinton explains Iraq strike". www.cnn.com.

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• Asked who attacked America on 9/11, [Sarah Palin] suggested several times that it was Saddam Hussein.

  John Heilemann

  America, Hussein, Palin

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• Wasn't Saddam destroyed? Wasn't Gaddafi liquidated? Didn't Milosevic go to the Hague? All true. But Stalin survived. Kim Jong-un isn't doing too badly, either - though that's probably because he actually has nuclear weapons, as opposed to Iran which might or might not be trying to acquire them and thus remains on the Israeli-American target list.

  Robert Fisk

  Iran, Trying, Nuclear

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• Baghdad is determined to force the Mongols of our age to commit suicide at its gates.

  Saddam Hussein

  Suicide, Age, Baghdad

  2003 Speech on the anniversary of the Gulf War, 17 Jan.

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• There has been a good deal of comment — some of it quite outlandish — about what our postwar requirements might be in Iraq. Some of the higher end predictions we have been hearing recently, such as the notion that it will take several hundred thousand U.S. troops to provide stability in post- Iraq, are wildly off the mark. It is hard to conceive that it would take more forces to provide stability in post-Saddam Iraq than it would take to conduct the war itself and to secure the surrender of Saddam's security forces and his army — hard to imagine.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  War, Army, Iraq

  House Budget Committee testimony on Iraq, February 27, 2003.

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• The intelligence community's 2002 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) stated, in a formal presentation to President Bush and to Congress, its view that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction - a belief in which the NIE said it held a 90% level of confidence. That is about as certain as the intelligence community gets on any subject.

  Laurence Silberman

  Mass Destruction, Views, Community

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• When Americans invade Iraq, Bush says, we will be greeted as liberators by the Iraqi people, proving that taking out Saddam Hussein was the right thing to do.

  Howard Fineman

  Iraq, People, Hussein

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• In any event, it is one thing to assert, then or now, that the Iraq war was ill-advised. It is quite another to make the horrendous charge that President Bush lied to or deceived the American people about the threat from Saddam.

  Laurence Silberman

  War, Iraq, People

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• I don't think there was enough skepticism because I think most of us kind of believed that Saddam Hussein was building biological, chemical, and perhaps even, nuclear weapons.

  Walter Isaacson

  Thinking, Nuclear, Hussein

  "Buying the War". "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. April 25, 2007.

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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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• From almost the first day they got into office, they (President Bush and Vice President Cheney) were trying to figure out how to get rid of Saddam Hussein. I'm not a psychiatrist - I don't know all of the reasons behind their concern, some might say their obsession.

  Hillary Clinton

  Office, Trying, President

  "Counterprogramming: Clinton in New Hampshire" by Patrick Healy, thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com. February 10, 2007.

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• I, for one, begin with intent. ... There is no question that Saddam Hussein had intent to do harm to the Western alliance and to the United States of America.

  Tommy Franks

  Pregnancy, America, United States

  "Gen. Franks Doubts Constitution Will Survive WMD Attack". www.newsmax.com. November 20, 2003.

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