Saddam Quotes - Page 19

• But there is scant evidence to tie Saddam to terrorist organizations, and even less to the Sept. 11 attacks.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Organization, Ties, Sept 11

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• Of course we're after Iraq.. eh.. Saddam Hussein.. I mean bin Laden.

  George W. Bush

  Mean, Iraq, Hussein

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• We now believe it is appropriate for Saddam Hussein to be forced to change, either by the threat of war, and therefore that compels him to cooperate. If he cooperates, then the basis of changed regime policy has shifted because his regime has, in fact, changed its policy to one of cooperation. So if he cooperates, then that is different than if he does not cooperate.

  Colin Powell

  War, Believe, Doe

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Ball-tampering. There, I've said it. Things that shouldn't be said: the judge in the Saddam trial appears to be wearing comedy specs and moustache.

  Eddie Mair

  Judging, Trials, Comedy

  "Balls" by Eddie Mair, www.bbc.co.uk. August 21, 2006.

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• Many Sunnis, who are still stuck in the Saddam era mindset and believe Iraq belongs to them, are trying to prevent a new country from developing at all.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Country, Believe, Iraq

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• Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.

  John Major

  Effort, Mind, President

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• It appears that with the deadline for exile come and gone, Saddam Hussein has chosen to make military force the ultimate weapons inspections enforcement mechanism. If so, the only exit strategy is victory, this is our common mission and the world's cause.

  John F. Kerry

  Military, Iraq, Victory

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• It is the duty of any president, in the final analysis, to defend this nation and dispel the security threat. Saddam Hussein has brought military action upon himself by refusing for 12 years to comply with the mandates of the United Nations. The brave and capable men and women of our armed forces and those who are with us will quickly, I know, remove him once and for all as a threat to his neighbors, to the world, and to his own people, and I support their doing so.

  John F. Kerry

  Military, Men, Years

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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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• There's no question that Saddam Hussein is a threat to the United States and to our allies. If Saddam persists in thumbing his nose at the inspectors, then we're clearly going to have to do something about it.

  Howard Dean

  Iraq, Allies, United States

  "Face the Nation" with Bob Schieffer, www.cbsnews.com. September 29, 2002.

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• The world is a better place because Saddam Hussein does not in Iraq.

  Marco Rubio

  Iraq, Doe, World

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Last night the United States dropped four 2,000 pound bombs on Saddam Hussein. I don't know anything about explosives, but, my God, do those things even need to explode?

  David Letterman

  Funny, Sarcastic, Night

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• I beg Osama to stop warring. He is a Muslim, and Islam means peace. Nobody wins in a war... I wish I were tapped in the problem about Iraq. I knew Saddam enough that I could have talked him into surrendering. But it's too late.

  Imelda Marcos

  War, Mean, Winning

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nobody has ever said in the United States government that we are going to war next month. No decision has been made by the president because, as he said to the United Nations, he wants the United Nations to live up to its responsibilities and he wants Saddam Hussein to cooperate.

  Colin Powell

  War, Responsibility, Government

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• It remains our policy to change the regime until such time as the regime changes itself. So far, we cannot be sure that he is cooperating or he [Saddam Hussein] is acting in a way that could give us comfort, or should give the international community comfort, that he is giving up his weapons of mass destruction. He continues to give us statements that suggest he is not in possession of weapons of mass destruction when we know he is.

  Colin Powell

  Giving Up, Mass Destruction, Community

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• The burden is on Saddam Hussein. And our policy, our national policy - not the UN policy but our national policy - is that the regime should be changed until such time as he demonstrates that it is not necessary to change the regime because the regime has changed itself.

  Colin Powell

  Hussein, Burden, Regimes

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• It was right to overthrow Saddam Hussein. It was the regime itself that was a threat. I think in hindsight, what I would have done is turn authority back over to Iraqis much more quickly and say: "Your country, you figure out how to run it."

  John Bolton

  Country, Running, Thinking

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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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 McClellan

  Opposites, Way, Hussein

  "Insight" with Jonathan Mann, www.cnn.com. December 21, 2005.

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• I still think the world is better off and safer without Saddam Hussein.

  Tony Blair

  Thinking, World, Hussein

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Abu Ghraib, as bad as it was, can't be compared to what Saddam was doing to people.

  Bruce Cockburn

  People, Abu Ghraib

  Source: progressive.org

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• Does anybody really believe that Iraq is going to be a wonderful democracy where people are going to run down to the voting box and gently put in their ballot and the winner is happily going to step up to lead the county? C'mon. Two minutes after we leave, there's going to be a revolution, and the meanest, toughest, smartest, most vicious guy will take over. And he'll have weapons of mass destruction, which Saddam didn't have.

  Donald Trump

  Running, Believe, Two

  Source: www.esquire.com

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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

  People, Political, Hussein

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• I don't think anybody can take the word of Saddam Hussein and his regime, and certainly an American president and allies who are obligated to worry about the safety and security of our countries, cannot take the word of this dictator, who lies, pathologically lies.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Country, Lying, Thinking

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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, Hussein, Resolution

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

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• I don't think it was a patriotic war. I think it was a mistake, a strategic mistake, and I think that the president of the United States wasn't patriotic in going after Saddam Hussein. He simply misled America and cost us casualties and killed and injured America's reputation around the world without valid reason for doing so. It's not patriotic; it's wrong.

  Wesley Clark

  War, Mistake, Patriotic

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