quotes about Hussein
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The very best kind of Saddam Hussein is the very dead kind.
-- A. M. Rosenthal -
No one believes for a moment the embargo will prompt the Iraqi people to rise against Saddam Hussein.
-- Alexander CockburnSource : "New millennium, old crime: those sanctions against Iraq" by Alexander Cockburn, freepress.org. January 12, 2000.
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Given the chance to throw off a brutal dictator like Saddam Hussein, people will rejoice.
-- Ari Fleischer -
As the president has said, if the United Nations will not disarm Saddam Hussein, it will be another international organization, a coalition of the willing that will be made up of numerous nations that will disarm Saddam Hussein.
-- Ari FleischerSource : "Powell: 'The clock continues to tick", www.cnn.com. March 7, 2003.
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If he declares he has none, then we will know that Saddam Hussein is once again...
-- Ari FleischerSource : "White House Awaits Iraqi Report With Skepticism". "CNN Live On Location", www.cnn.com. December 2, 2002.
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George W. Bush and Tony Blair had to convince the world that Saddam Hussein represented an imminent threat. Tony Blair lied when he claimed that Iraq could launch a chemical or biological attack within 45 minutes.
-- Bianca Jagger -
Saddam Hussein has been brutal against his people, but when he was committing those crimes, the international community did not come to the rescue of the Iraqis.
-- Bianca Jagger -
It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.
-- Brent Scowcroft -
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To sum up, the position we took was that since we didn't know the internal situation in Iraq nor Saddam Hussein, that our best bet was to take counsel from the people who did know him and who did deal with him.
-- Brent Scowcroft -
If you catch him, just give me four seconds with Saddam Hussein.
-- Bruce Willis -
The old SV (Socialist Left Party) were useful idiots for the communists in Moscow. Today's SV are useful idiots for Saddam Hussein.
-- Carl I. HagenSource : Aftenposten, February 23, 2003.
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There were no weapons of mass destruction and Saddam Hussein was not involved in the September 11th attack.
-- Charles Rangel -
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There is no question that Iraq possesses biological and chemical weapons and that he [Saddam Hussein] seeks to acquire additional weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear weapons. That is not in debate. I also agree with President Bush that Saddam Hussein is a threat to peace and must be disarmed, to quote President Bush directly.
-- Christopher Dodd -
The war against terrorism will not be finished as long as he [Saddam Hussein] is in power.
-- Christopher Dodd -
Saddam Hussein wrote the book on human rights violations.
-- Curt Weldon -
I think it was right to remove Saddam Hussein. I think it was the right decision then and I still think it was right now.
-- David Cameron -
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The Chinese, the Russians, the Nazis and Saddam Hussein all agree! Gun Control Works!
-- Dean Armstrong -
Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.
-- Donald RumsfeldSource : Address to the Veterans of Foreign Wars 103rd National Convention, delivered 26 August 2002, Nashville, Tennessee
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We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction.
-- Edward Kennedy -
There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein's regime is a serious danger, that he is a tyrant, and that his pursuit of lethal weapons of mass destruction cannot be tolerated. He must be disarmed.
-- Edward Kennedy -
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In liberating Iraq, we have rid the nation and the rest of the world from the danger of Saddam Hussein.
-- Elizabeth Dole -
In the 1990s, we were certain that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear arsenal. In fact, his factories could barely make soap.
-- Fareed Zakaria -
We are well aware that he spent many hours recently tape recording various messages... we need to do a little more analysis of what was actually said to see if that indeed was in fact Saddam Hussein,
-- Geoff HoonSource : "Saddam goes on TV to rally troops", www.cnn.com. March 24, 2003.
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I was an opponent of Saddam Hussein when the British and American governments and businessmen were selling him guns and gas.
-- George GallowaySource : "Galloway defends himself at US Senate" by Simon Jeffery, www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2005.
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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 -
As Americans, we want peace - we work and sacrifice for peace. But there can be no peace if our security depends on the will and whims of a ruthless and aggressive dictator. I'm not willing to stake one American life on trusting Saddam Hussein.
-- George W. Bush -
Saddam Hussein was a unique threat. And the world is better off without him in power.
-- George W. Bush -
It could safely be said that Iraqis are dying at a faster clip since the American-led invasion and occupation than they did during the last decade of Saddam Hussein's rule.
-- Graydon Carter -
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We've gotten rid of (Saddam Hussein), and I suppose that's a good thing.
-- Howard DeanSource : "First debate: The nine Democratic candidates on hand" by Judy Woodruff, www.cnn.com. April 10, 2003.
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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 -
Hitler didn't travel. Stalin didn't travel. Saddam Hussein never traveled. They didn't want to have their orthodoxy challenged.
-- Howard Gardner -
I try to read everything that I can about myself because Saddam Hussein didn't read his reviews and he thought he was winning!
-- James Blunt -
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I have to say when we talk about the treatment of these prisoners that I would guess that these prisoners wake up every morning thanking Allah that Saddam Hussein is not in charge of these prisons.
-- James Inhofe -
I say at this point, for different reasons, Bush and Hussein are both very threatening to world peace and to deny that is to be incredibly naive.
-- Janeane Garofalo -
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 -
Saddam Hussein also challenged President Bush to a debate. The Butcher of Baghdad vs. the Butcher of the English language.
-- Jay Leno -
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By ending the Hussein regime, the United States has taken away yet another incubator of terrorism.
-- Jim Gerlach -
Since the ousting and capture of Saddam Hussein by U.S. forces, civil rights and personal freedoms have been restored in Iraq, as well as equal rights to all, not just to Saddams entourage of terrorists.
-- Jim Gerlach -
Further, not only the United States, but the French, British, Germans and the United Nations all thought Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction before the United States intervened.
-- Jim Gerlach -
There are extensive contacts between Saddam Hussein's government and al Qaeda.
-- Joe Lieberman -
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I can support going in after Saddam Hussein, but I want to make sure I don't go alone.
-- John DingellSource : "CNN Novak, Hunt & Shields". Interview with John Dingell, www.cnn.com. October 19, 2002.
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If you don't believe...Saddam Hussein is a threat with nuclear weapons, then you shouldn't vote for me.
-- John F. Kerry -
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 -
Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime ... He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation ... And now he is miscalculating America's response to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction ... So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real...
-- John F. Kerry -
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Asked who attacked America on 9/11, [Sarah Palin] suggested several times that it was Saddam Hussein.
-- John Heilemann -
The world is a better place with Saddam Hussein gone.
-- Karl Rove -
I believe that sooner or later we're going to have to deal with Saddam Hussein, because of his general reputation, because of what I'm convinced he's done with regard to terrorism and the support thereof. But I'm not at all sure I believe that it has to be right now.
-- Lawrence EagleburgerSource : "Transcript: Lawrence Eagleburger on FNS". Interview With Brit Hume, www.foxnews.com. August 19, 2002.
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There's a certain amount of sympathy here for the Bush administration's problem, which is they would like to get rid of Saddam Hussein and they would like to have the Kurds autonomous.
-- Les Aspin -
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Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.
-- Madeleine Albright -
I learnt from Hussein how to achieve victory while being oppressed.
-- Mahatma Gandhi -
The soldiers of Saddam Hussein have given them a lesson they will never forget
-- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf -
As our leader Saddam Hussein said, 'God is grilling their stomachs in hell.'
-- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf -
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Saddam Hussein's soldiers and his great forces gave the Americans a lesson which will not be forgotten by history. Truly.
-- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf -
It was Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda who attacked the U.S. on September 11, 2001, not Saddam Hussein and Iraq.
-- Peter DeFazio -
I'm bangin' from Belize to Tel Aviv on the Red Sea Racin' Saddam Hussein on Kawasaki jet ski's
-- Ras KassSource : Song: Rasassanation, Album: Rasassination, 1998
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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 -
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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 -
I can't do anything too serious like Saddam Hussein, but I would like to do Bill Clinton. That'd be fun.
-- Ruby Wax -
[Saddam] Hussein maintains an active and aggressive nuclear weapons program.
-- Sandy Berger -
I believe Saddam Hussein's strategic objective was, and remains, to assert dominance over the Gulf region.
-- Sandy Berger -
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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 -
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 ChamblissSource : "Questions surround WMD hunt" by David Ensor, www.cnn.com. June 18, 2003.
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Saddam Hussein is being treated the exact opposite of the way his regime treated those he imprisoned and tortured simply for expressing their opinions. And so I reject that.
-- Scott McClellanSource : "Insight" with Jonathan Mann, www.cnn.com. December 21, 2005.
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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 -
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If Saddam Hussein committed crimes such as political oppression against the Iraqi people, it should be resolved legally in a fair and just manner which doesn't paint a sense of injustice
-- Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono -
Mao Tse Tung lives and his name is Barack Hussein Obama. This country should be ashamed. I wanna throw up.
-- Ted Nugent -
Saddam Hussein's regime is despicable, he is developing weapons of mass destruction, and we cannot leave him doing so unchecked. He is a threat to his own people and to the region and, if allowed to develop these weapons, a threat to us also.
-- Tony Blair -
If it was up to the U.N., Saddam Hussein would still be killing his own people.
-- Tucker Carlson -
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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 -
If the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and it's clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush administration again.
-- Bill O'Reilly -
The Kurdish minority has been cozying up to the Iranians and given the traditional hatred between the Iranians and the Iraqis, maybe Saddam Hussein sees this as a threat to his dominance of the Kurdish area north of the 36th Parallel.
-- William Taylor