Saddam Hussein

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Saddam Hussein

Saddām Hussein `Abd al-Majid al-Tikrītī (Hussein also spelled Husayn and Hussain; Arabic: صدام حسين عبدالمجيد التكريتي; (born April 28, 1937)

President of Iraq from 1979 to 2003.

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Attributed

"The great duel, the mother of all battles has begun. The dawn of victory nears as this great showdown begins."

Broadcast on Baghdad state radio, five hours after the beginning of Desert Storm - January 17, 1991.

"I wish things were like when Ronald Reagan was still president."

Reported in the July 2005 issue of GQ, which quoted Spc. Sean O'Shea, one of Hussein's former guards.

"If Israel attacks any Arab country ... we have the means to burn half of Israel"
From a Speech by Saddam Hussein at an Arab League summit in 1989 (in Arabic)

From Saddam's Trial:
"Kuwait is an Iraqi territory. It was not an invasion. "
"I returned to Kuwait because the Kuwaitis were buying Iraqi women for 10 dinars ... The Kuwaitis are dogs."

"Of the lessons also gained from the history of mankind is the fact that greed and arrogance, when combined, lead the oppressor to do injustice not only to others, but to himself as well; once this combination of greed and arrogance has misled him into a sense of undefeatable capability and power, as he takes the road of falsehood and aggression, committing the most heinous acts and proceeding from that sick imagination, to fall down the precipice and then into hell."

"One of the lessons of recent and distant history is that all empires and bearers of the coffin of evil, whenever they mobilized their evil against the Arab nation, or against the Muslim world, they were themselves buried in their own coffin, with their sick dreams and their arrogance and greed, under Arab and Islamic soil; or they returned to die on the land from which they had proceeded to perpetrate aggression. This has been the case with all empires preceeding our present time."

"You gotta find a good woman. Not too smart, not too dumb. Not too old, not too young. One that can cook and clean." (to a guard of his named Specialist Sean O'Shea after his capture by U.S. forces)

"I will not return! I will not come to an unjust court! Go to hell!—Saddam Hussein, to the judge at the end of a court session on December 6, 2005

"That Mummy. - Saddam hussein talking about Ayatollah Khomeini during the 1980 - 1988 Gulf War

"You are scared of the interior minister. He doesn't scare my dog." Saddam Hussein Adressing Judge Raouf.

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About Saddam Hussein

"We are safer, the region is safer, the world is safer without him."
- Iyad Allawi
"It's been six weeks since Saddam Hussein was killed by a pack of wild boars, and the world is still glad to be rid of him."
- News announcer on the fictional South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut
"Goodbye Saddam Hussein - the world is better off without you."
- George W Bush

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