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• What we're hearing from everyone is that they understand that Saddam Hussein is a threat. They understand that he's been a threat for a long time.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Long, Hearing, Threat

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• Democrats should run Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for president. He's more coherent than Dennis Kucinich, he dresses like their base, he's more macho than John Edwards, and he's willing to show up at a forum where he might get one hostile question - unlike the current Democratic candidates for president who won't debate on Fox News Channel. He's not married to an impeached president, and the name Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is surely no more frightening than B. Hussein Obama.

  Ann Coulter

  Running, Names, President

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• The media is uncritical, and their so-called the concept of objectivity translates into keeping everything within the Beltway. However, Iraq was quite different. Here, there were flat-out lies, and they sort of knew it. They were desperately trying to make connections between Saddam Hussein and 9/11.

  Noam Chomsky

  Lying, Iraq, Objectivity

  "Noam Chomsky on the 2016 Republicans: 'I Have Never Seen Such Lunatics in the Political System'". Interview with Simone Chun / Hankyoreh, www.alternet.org. March 11, 2016.

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• I remember when the Cold War ended, how quickly the United States was swept by a nationalistic fervor and turned against Saddam Hussein. As soon as we lost our age-old enemy, the Soviet Union, we instantly created a new one.

  Connie Zweig

  War, Enemy, Age

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• In Iraq, [American administration] said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction endangering mankind. With this pretext, the U.S. intervened militarily, and all they did is take control over oil fields, and oil wells.

  Evo Morales

  Mass Destruction, Oil, Iraq

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The obvious objections to the execution of Saddam Hussein are valid and well aired. His death will provoke violent strife between Sunni and Shia Muslims, and between Iraqis in general and the American occupation forces.

  Richard Dawkins

  Occupation, Execution, Violent

  "Executing Saddam Hussein was an Act of Vandalism" by Richard Dawkins, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 3, 2007.

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• Faith in public life does not mean that God tells you to bomb another country or to go get Saddam Hussein. Faith in public life means that every child, regardless of their religious belief, should have health care and be able to go to school. Because my faith saying I can bomb Iraq is the same as your faith saying you can take over a passenger plane and fly it into the World Trade Center.

  Jeremiah Wright

  Country, Religious, Children

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If there are people who yearn for the days when Saddam Hussein was in power, then I am not among them.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  People, Saddam, Ifs

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It is hard to put a price on some things. What is the value of having prevented nuclear weapons from getting into the hands of a dictator like Saddam Hussein - or of Gadhafi?

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Hands, Nuclear, Weapons

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Experts are saying that President Bush's goal now is to politically humiliate Saddam Hussein. Why don't we just make him the next Democratic presidential nominee?

  Jay Leno

  Goal, Presidential, Next

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• As Bush said, after detailing some of Saddam Hussein's charming practices: “If this is not evil, then evil has no meaning.” It's not as if anyone is worried that we're making a horrible miscalculation and could be removing the Iraqi Abraham Lincoln by mistake.

  Ann Coulter

  Mistake, Practice, Evil

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• As for King Hussein of Jordan, I cannot praise him enough. He is not only a friend, but a brother. His qualities as a man and his goodness of heart are enhanced by great courage and a true love of his country.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Country, Brother, Kings

  "The Shah's Story". Book by Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, p. 146, 1980.

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• Saddam Hussein is about to face trial and George Bush wants to execute him. Not because of the war crimes, but because Saddam is beating him in the polls.

  Craig Kilborn

  War, Trials, Want

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• If you go against someone, you say, you can't vote for these Democrats, they don't have good values, they're not good people, they're weak, they're spineless, they're don't love America, they're giving aid and comfort to Saddam Hussein, that's the kind of thing I think is bad for America, because it stops the voters from thinking. And any time you stop thinking in a free society you get in trouble.

  William J. Clinton

  Thinking, America, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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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 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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• I was an opponent of Saddam Hussein when the British and American governments and businessmen were selling him guns and gas.

  George Galloway

  Gun, Government, Opponents

  "Galloway defends himself at US Senate" by Simon Jeffery, www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2005.

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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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• A strong foundation exists for immediate military action against Saddam Hussein and for a multilateral effort to rebuild Iraq after he is gone.

  George P. Shultz

  Strong, Military, Iraq

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• There is a much cheaper way, less complicated way to bring Iraq and Saddam Hussein to its knees: it is simply to send the Bush economic team over there and let them run the country.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Running, Team

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• I voted to threaten the use of force to make Saddam Hussein comply with the resolutions of the United Nations.

  John F. Kerry

  Use, Resolution, Force

  "Tricky John Kerry" by Robert Novak, www.cnn.com. September 5, 2003.

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• How could any responsible leader have ignored the Iraqi threat? If we had not acted, Saddam Hussein and his sons would still be in power.

  Dick Cheney

  Son, Leader, Ignored

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• I think [Bush] would like to hand his father Saddam Hussein's head and win his approval for what happened after the Gulf War.

  Martin Sheen

  Father, War, Winning

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• Inspectors do not have the duty or the ability to uncover terrible weapons hidden in a vast country. The responsibility of inspectors is simply to confirm evidence of voluntary and total disarmament. Saddam Hussein has the responsibility to provide that evidence, as directed, and in full

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Country, Responsibility, Weapons

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