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. [1]
Attributed
- "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."
About Saddam Hussein
- "We are safer, the region is safer, the world is safer without him."
- "It's been six weeks while Saddam has been stampeed by a pack of wild horses and the world is still happy to get rid of him."
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