Saddam Quotes

• The essential facts are known. We know of the weapons in Saddam's possession: chemical, biological, and nuclear in time. We know of his unequaled willingness to use them. We know his history. His invasions of his neighbors. His dreams of achieving hegemonic control over the Arab world. His record of anti-American rage. His willingness to terrorize, to slaughter, to suppress his own people and others. We need not stretch to imagine nightmare scenarios in which Saddam makes common cause with the terrorists who want to kill us Americans and destroy our way of life.

  

  Joe Lieberman
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• The community of nations may see more and more of the very kind of threat Iraq poses now: a rogue state with weapons of mass destruction, ready to use them or provide them to terrorists. If we fail to respond today, Saddam and all those who would follow in his footsteps will be emboldened tomorrow.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Community
  • Nations
  • Weapons

• Whether or not Saddam is implicated directly in the anthrax attacks or the horrors of September 11, he is, by any common definition, a terrorist who must be removed.

  

  Joe Lieberman
  • September
  • Terrorist
  • Attacks

• we not only help those countries in the region which are subject to Iraqi threats and intimidation, we also deprive Saddam of his most powerful tools for keeping the Iraqi people living in fear and subjugation.

  

  Jack Straw
  • People
  • Help
  • Fear

• America was cool with Saddam Hussein when he was killing Iranians.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • America
  • Killing
  • Hussein

• He had that real Saddam attitude from the moment he stepped into that room, and he smiled at his codefendants, he smiled at the judge as he walked past.

  

  Lara Logan
  • Attitude
  • Moment
  • Saddam

• Saddam has a chance and he has to take it.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Chance
  • Saddam

• We need all to remember that the coalition ... decided to take military action to remove the Saddam regime because of our very clear assessment that Saddam Hussein and his regime were in clear material breach of U.N. Security Council resolution 1441 and many preceding that, and that therefore we did have to face the serious consequences which that resolution made clear would follow,

  

  Jack Straw
  • Remember
  • Action
  • Serious

• Once we destroyed the Saddam regime, we knew there was going to be a civil war.

  

  William Odom
  • War
  • Destroyed
  • Hippie

• In fact, five years ago, after Saddam ejected the UN inspectors, John McCain and I gave up on containment and introduced the Iraqi Liberation Act, which, when it became law, made a change of regime in Baghdad official US policy. You might therefore say that, when it comes to Iraq, President Bush is just enforcing the McCain-Lieberman policy.

  

  Joe Lieberman
  • Up
  • Law
  • President

• And the problem is, I can apologise for the information that turned out to be wrong, but I can't, sincerely at least, apologise for removing Saddam.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Problem
  • Information
  • Sincerely

• The money from Iraqi oil will be yours - it will no longer be used by Saddam Hussein for his own benefit.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Used
  • Benefits
  • Saddam

• In respect to Iraq, Saddam is defying every one of us, ... He questions our resolve and is gambling we will lose nerve rather than enforce our will.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Respect
  • Questions
  • Iraq

• Saddam has committed many crimes against humanity and against his own people.

  

  Tom Cruise
  • Humanity
  • Crimes
  • Saddam

• Delay would give Saddam the clearest possible signal that his strategy is succeeding, ... It would tell him that the international community lacks the will to disarm him.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Community
  • Strategy
  • Disarm

• The Kurdish minority has been cozying up to the Iranians and given the traditional hatred between the Iranians and the Iraqis, maybe Saddam Hussein sees this as a threat to his dominance of the Kurdish area north of the 36th Parallel.

  

  William Taylor
  • Hatred
  • Traditional
  • Minorities

• Saddam's weapons pose a grave threat to international peace and security, ... We must not shrink from our commitment.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Peace
  • Commitment
  • Security

• I abhor Saddam's regime, but the basis has to be disarmament.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Bases
  • Regimes
  • Disarmament

• If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Peace
  • Force
  • Iraq's weapons

• With overwhelming military strength now deployed against him and with intense monitoring from space surveillance and the U.N. inspection team on the ground, any belligerent move by Saddam against a neighbor would be suicidal....If Iraq does possess such concealed weapons, as is quite likely, Saddam would use them only in the most extreme circumstances, in the face of an invasion of Iraq, when all hope of avoiding the destruction of his regime is lost.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Military strength
  • Space surveillance
  • U.N. inspection team

• The cost of an on-site inspection team would be minuscule compared to war, Saddam would have no choice except to comply, the results would be certain, military and civilian casualties would be avoided, there would be almost unanimous worldwide support, and the United States could regain its leadership in combating the real threat of international terrorism.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • War
  • Saddam
  • Inspection team

• We promise that the events of 1991 will not happen again. We have pledged to remove Saddam. And we will deliver.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Promise
  • Events
  • Remove

• What if Saddam fails to comply and we fail to act, or we take some ambiguous third route, which gives him yet more opportunities to develop this program of weapons of mass destruction? ... Well, he will conclude that the international community has lost its will. He will then conclude that he can go right on and do more to rebuild an arsenal of devastating destruction. And some day, some way, I guarantee you he'll use the arsenal.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Fails
  • Saddam