Saddam Hussein Quotes
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More Saddam Hussein Quotes
The devil Bush and his treacherous gang, with criminal Zionism, havebegunthegreat showdown, themotherof all battles between good and evil.
Saddam Hussein— 1991 Speech in Baghdad, 6 Jan, describing Operation Desert Storm. Quoted in the Sunday Times, 27 Jan.
Baghdad is determined to force the Mongols of our age to commit suicide at its gates.
Saddam Hussein— 2003 Speech on the anniversary of the Gulf War,17 Jan.
At dawn prayers today on March 20 2003 (17 Muharram 1424), the criminal, reckless little Bush and his aides committed this crime that he was threatening to commit against Iraq and humanity.
Saddam Hussein— 2003 Address to the nation of Iraq, broadcast on state television, after a US strike on Baghdad. Quoted in The Guardian, 20 Mar.
We do not have weapons of mass destruction.
Saddam Hussein— Quoted in George Galloway I'm Not the Only One (2004).
If they come we are ready.We will fight them on the streets, from the rooftops, from house to house.We will never surrender our independence no matter what happens in any invasion.
Saddam Hussein— Quoted in George Galloway I'm Not the Only One (2004).
The ideal revolutionary command should effectively direct all planning and implementation. It must not allow the growth of any other rival center of power. There must be one command pooling and directing the subsequent governmental departments, including the armed forces.
Saddam Hussein— Baghdad Domestic Service, March 20, 1971, quoted in Saddam Hussein: a political biography (2002) by Efraim Karsh and Inari Rautsi
Our children should be taught to beware of everything foreign and not to disclose any state or party secrets to foreigners... for foreigners are eyes for their countries, and some of them are counterrevolutionary instruments [in the hands of imperialism].
Saddam Hussein— al-Dimuqratiyya Masdar Quwwa li al-Fard wa al-Mujtama, 1977, quoted in Saddam Hussein: a political biography (2002) by Efraim Karsh and Inari Rautsi
The most important thing about marriage is that the man must not let the woman feel downtrodden simply because she is a woman and he is a man.
Saddam Hussein— Interview with the Al-Mar'a magazine in 1978, quoted in Price of Honor (2002) by Jane Goodwin.
The complete emancipation of women from the ties which held them back in the past, during the ages of despotism and ignorance, is a basic aim of the Party and the Revolution. Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated.
Saddam Hussein— "Women: One Half of Our Society" (1981)
You Americans, you treat the Third World in the way an Iraqi peasant treats his new bride. Three days of honeymoon, and then it's off to the fields
Saddam Hussein— Meeting with US State Department officials (1985), as quoted in The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Gulf War (2002) by Charles Jaco, p. 23
The great duel, the mother of all battles has begun.… The dawn of victory nears as this great showdown begins!
Saddam Hussein— Broadcast on Baghdad state radio, January 17, 1991.Comment on the beginning of Desert Storm, quoted in Washington Post (17 January 1991) "Iraqi Leader Remains Defiant Following US-Led Air Attacks" by Nora Boustany
Palestine is Arab and must be liberated from the river to the sea and all the Zionists who emigrated to the land of Palestine must leave.
Saddam Hussein— On Iraqi Television, May 30, 2001; quoted in Robert Wistrich, Muslim Anti-Semitism: A Clear and Present Danger(2002), page 43
Long live Iraq! Long live the Iraqi people! Down with the traitors!
Saddam Hussein— Death Penalty for Saddam Hussein (BBC News online)Reaction on being sentenced to death, November 5, 2006.
I call on you not to hate, because hate does not leave space for a person to be fair and it makes you blind and closes all doors of thinking.
Saddam Hussein— Saddam Hussein Farewell Letter (MSNBC online)Statement in a farewell letter written to the Iraqi people, written Nov. 5, 2006, released Dec. 27, 2006
la ilaha il-Allah, wa Muhammadu... (There is no god but God and Muhammed [is His prophet])
Saddam Hussein— Last words. [1]
SSA Piro asked Hussein why Iraq was the only country to applaud the 9/11 attack, which Hussein immediately denied.… Hussein stated that he wrote editorials against the attack, but also spoke of the cause which led men to commit these acts. The cause was never reviewed which could create such hatred to kill innocent people.
Saddam Hussein— Conversation with FBI Senior Special Agent George L. Piro (28 June 2004); National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 279 [3]
We're dealing with Hitler revisited, a totalitarianism and a brutality that is naked and unprecedented in modern times, and that must not stand!
Saddam Hussein— George H. W. Bush (23 October 1990), quoted in The Bush Dyslexicon (2002) by Mark Crispin Miller
I despised Saddam Hussein, because he attacked Iran when my hostages were being held. It was President Reagan who established diplomatic relations with Saddam Hussein after I left office.
Saddam Hussein— Jimmy Carter (10 September 2007), interview with Democracy Now!, [4]
Vous êtes mon ami personnel. Vous êtes assuré de mon estime, de ma considération et de mon affection.
Saddam Hussein— Translation: You are my personal friend. Let me assure you of my esteem, consideration and bond.French president Jacques Chirac in a declaration on September 5, 1974.Source: Aeschimann, Éric & Boltanski, Christophe (2006). Chirac d'Arabie : Les mirages d'une politique française (in French), Grasset & Fasquelle, pp. 64, ISBN 2246691214.
Sir, I salute your courage, your strength, your indefatigability, and I want you to know that we are with you, hatta al-nasr, hatta al-nasr, hatta al-Quds [until victory, until victory, until Jerusalem].
Saddam Hussein— George Galloway, The Times, January 20, 1994, citing BBC monitoring service at 9 PM on January 19 as its source.
It's not as if anyone is worried that through some horrible miscalculation we could be removing the Iraqi Abraham Lincoln by mistake.
Saddam Hussein— Ann Coulter, How to Talk to a Liberal if You Must 2004
As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist: He is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational art, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he's a great military man.
Saddam Hussein— Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr. Gulf War briefing (28 February 1991), as quoted in "WAR IN THE GULF: Commander's Briefing; Excerpts From Schwarzkopf News Conference on Gulf War" in The New York Times
The images of Saddam Hussein endlessly repeated on our screens before the war (Saddam firing a rifle into the air) made him into some kind of Iraqi Charlton Heston the president not only of Iraq, but also of the Iraqi Rifle Association. The true interest of these images, however, is that they remind us how the ideological struggle is fought out not only at the level of arguments but also at the level of images: which image will hegemonize a field, and function as the paradigmatic embodiment of an idea, a regime, a problem.
Saddam Hussein— Slavoj Žižek, Iraq: The Borrowed Kettle, p. 2. ISBN 1844675408.
There is no other course but the one we have chosen, except the course of humiliation and darkness, after which there will be no bright sign in the sky or brilliant light on earth? All this will make us more patient and steadfast, and better prepared for the battle which God blesses and which good men support. Then there will only be a glorious conclusion, where a brilliant sun will clear the dust of battle, and where the clouds of battles will be dispelled.
Saddam Hussein— 1991 Baghdad radio broadcast, 21 Feb.
The ruling family in Kuwait is good at blackmail, exploitation, and destruction of their opponents. They had perpetuated a grave U.S. conspiracy against us.... stabbing Iraq in the back with a poisoned dagger.
Saddam Hussein— Radio Baghdad, July 1990, quoted in Saddam Hussein: a political biography (2002) by Efraim Karsh and Inari Rautsi
