Saddam Quotes - Page 9

• Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do neither what you said nor what you intended.

  Saddam Hussein

  Leader, Hussein, Dictator

  "Irrational, illogical, unpredictable - 24 years on, the world awaits Saddam's next move" by Ewen MacAskill, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2003.

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• Saddam is a war criminal and there are no two people who can argue over this.

  Muqtada al Sadr

  War, Two, People

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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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• Let's try to find ten good things to say about Albert Belle:
  10. So far as we know, he's never killed anyone.
  9. He is handsome, and built like a God.
  8. He played every game.
  7. He has never appeared on the Jerry Springer Show.
  6. He was an underrated base runner who was rarely caught stealing.
  5. He hasn't been arrested in several years.
  4. He is very bright.
  3. He works hard.
  2. He has never spoken favorably about Adolf Hitler, Saddam Hussein, or any other foreign madman.
  1. The man could hit.

  Bill James

  Hard Work, Men, Years

  Bill James (2001). “The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract”

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• Saddam Hussein, influenced by fascism, ordered the deaths of tens of thousands of people, fought two disastrous wars, turned his nation into an international pariah and ruined his country’s economy. In other words, his record is identical to George W. Bush’s.

  Ted Rall

  Country, War, Two

  "Time to Trade Up" by Ted Rall, rall.com. July 5, 2004.

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• Saddam Hussein is dead, and Osama bin Laden is dead. If you’re Moammar Gadhafi, living in exile is starting to sound really good.

  Jay Leno

  Sound, Hussein, Osama Bin Laden

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• Saddam Hussein has raised the amount going to suicide bombers from $10 thousand dollars to $25 thousand. What's next, a health care plan?

  Jay Leno

  Suicide, Dollars, Bombers

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• I'm thinking of a God very different from the God of the Christian and far and away from the God of Islam, because both are depicted as omnipotent Oriental despots, cosmic Saddam Husseins.

  Antony Flew

  Christian, Thinking, Islam

  "Leading Atheist Philosopher Concludes God's Real". www.foxnews.com. December 9, 2004.

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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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• The world is safer without Saddam [Hussein]. Certainly the people of Iraq are better without Saddam.

  Jimmy Carter

  Iraq, People, World

  "Jimmy Carter: 'The war has been unnecessary'". Interview with Katie Couric, www.today.com. August 4, 2010.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I think you can be an enemy of Saddam Hussein even if Donald Rumsfeld is also an enemy of Saddam Hussein.

  Adam Michnik

  Thinking, Enemy, Hussein

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• [Saddam Hussein is aggressively seeking nuclear and biological weapons and ] the United States may well become the target.

  Dick Cheney

  United States, Nuclear, Target

  "Cheney: Saddam Wants Nuclear Weapons". www.foxnews.com. September 09, 2002.

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• Capturing Saddam Hussein and ensuring that this brutal dictator will never return to power is an important step toward stabilizing Iraq for the Iraqis. Let's also be clear: Our problems in Iraq have not been caused by one man, and this is a moment when the administration can and must launch a major effort to gain international support and win the peace.

  John F. Kerry

  Men, Winning, Iraq

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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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• The Iraqi Baath Socialist Party was modelled in large part on admiration for European National Socialist and Fascist movements, hoped to emulate them especially in their nationalism against the West. But mutated by Saddam Hussein it became also one that very, very much admired, and grew a special moustache in admiration of the work of Yosif Vissarionovitch Dzugashvili, the great Georgian known to us historically as Stalin. So you had him in modern Iraq, a regime in our own time, that was openly, directly modelled upon the two most extreme examples of European totalitarianism.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Party, Two, Iraq

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• The foreign policy, you have to know how to pick and choose. There's no way, if Saddam [Hussein] had not had weapons of mass destruction, I would have gone, because I don't believe that the U.S. should be involved directly in civil wars.

  John Kasich

  War, Believe, Mass Destruction

  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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