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Quotes About Hussein

America was cool with Saddam Hussein when he was killing Iranians.
~ Henry Rollins
It was Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda who attacked the U.S. on September 11, 2001, not Saddam Hussein and Iraq.
~ Peter DeFazio
It was, however, in the interest of Osama bin Laden for us to destroy a secular Arab leader; it was very much in the interest of the Iranians because they wanted revenge against Saddam Hussein for Iraq's invasion in 1980.
~ William Odom
There is much to be said for having an experienced international jurist who is entirely unconnected with the allied invaders, on the tribunal.
~ Saddam Hussein
I want him [Saddam Hussein]. I want - I want justice. There is an old poster seen out west. As I recall, it said, Wanted Dead or Alive.
~ George W. Bush
After he saw what happened to Saddam Hussein, he (Gadhafi) did not want to be Saddam Hussein. He gave up his nuclear program.
~ Donald Rumsfeld
To avoid a military conflict, Saddam Hussein has no other choice than to leave the country.
~ Ari Fleischer
A headline last year, after the death of Saddam Hussein, read: 'Tyrant is hanged'. My auntie looked at the newspaper and sobbed, 'Who's going to present "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?"'
~ Steve Williams
The capture of Saddam Hussein has proven to the bad ones, to the guilty ones, to the sinful ones that they cannot run forever. Sooner or later, the other criminals will also be found from their hideouts.
~ Hamid Karzai
Mr. Hussein began building Ghazalia in the early 1980s as a home for army officers and other members of his Baath Party. Concrete mansions with pillars and domes are common in the southern half of the district.
~ Alex Berenson
After the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russian influence collapsed, and Moscow came to bitterly resent the Western interventions that destroyed Mr. Hussein and Colonel Qaddafi.
~ Simon Sebag Montefiore
The day of reckoning is not just coming for Saddam Hussein. It's coming for the anti-war movement.
~ Andrew Sullivan
I have the impression that if the armchair generals arguers got their way and asked only war veterans what to do about Saddam Hussein, there would have been a rather abrupt regime change in Iraq long before now.
~ Christopher Hitchens
CBS news anchor Dan Rather has interviewed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. When asked what it was like to talk to a crazy man, Saddam said, 'It's not so bad.'
~ Conan O'Brien
I just think everything we do has an unintended consequence. We take out Saddam Hussein in Iraq, and Iraq was the check against Iran.
~ Gary Johnson
After a generation of misrule under Mr. Hussein, who built a huge military infrastructure while neglecting civilian investment, and a dozen years of United Nations sanctions, Iraq's unemployment rate tops 50 percent.
~ Alex Berenson
It was an attempt to stick the Congress's finger in King Hussein's eye.
~ George P. Shultz
There's a certain amount of sympathy here for the Bush administration's problem, which is they would like to get rid of Saddam Hussein and they would like to have the Kurds autonomous.
~ Les Aspin
Hussein has a strategy. I'm sure he'll implement that strategy, and it would be to our detriment. We're embarking on an exercise about which we know nothing.
~ John Hewson
I don't know if, at the end of the day, how brave Saddam Hussein would be if he were stripped of his bodyguards and everything else.
~ Richard Armitage
Saddam Hussein was an odious dictator, but he was also a very effective opponent of Iran. He was also a very effective opponent of al-Qaida.
~ Zbigniew Brzezinski
Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.
~ Madeleine Albright
For the DPRK and its military, the ouster of Saddam Hussein conveyed a powerful message: it's not enough to pretend to have weapons of mass destruction. To be secure, a nation must build them, own them, and hide them.
~ Madeleine K. Albright
I think [Bush] would like to hand his father Saddam Hussein's head and win his approval for what happened after the Gulf War.
~ Martin Sheen