Saddam Hussein
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"Vacant"

/office5 = Regional Secretary of the Regional Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region/Regional Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region/Iraqi Regional Branch

/1blankname5 = National Secretary

/1namedata5 = Michel Aflaq"Himself"

/term_start5 = 16 July 1979

/term_end5 = 30 December 2006

/predecessor5 = Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr

/successor5 = Izzat Ibrahim ad-Douri

/term_start6 = February 1964

/term_end6 = October 1966

/successor6 = Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr

/predecessor6 = Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr

/office7 = Member of the Regional Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region/Regional Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region/Iraqi Regional Branch

/term_start7 = February 1964

/term_end7 = 9 April 2003

/birth_name = Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti

/birth_date =

/birth_place = Al-Awja, Saladin Province, Kingdom of Iraq/Iraq

/death_date =

/death_place = Kadhimiya, Baghdad, Iraq

/nationality = Iraqi

/party = Ba'ath Party/Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party (1957–1966)Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region/Baghdad-based Ba'ath Party(1966–2006)

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He pretended to care for the people of Iraq after he and other presidents before him have killed by the use of weapons, including depleted uranium, and by the blockade which is now more than 12 years old, more than 1 million and 700,000 innocent Iraqis out of a population of 25 million citizens.

Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do neither what you said nor what you intended.

America needs wisdom, not force. It had used force, along with the West, to its extreme extent, only to find out later that it did not achieve what they wanted.

Allah is on our side. That is why we will beat the aggressor.

If you want to execute me, I'll bring my own [expletive] rope.

Baghdad is determined to force the Mongols of our age to commit suicide at its gates.

Just as your beautiful skyscrapers were destroyed and caused your grief, beautiful buildings and precious homes crumbled over their owners in Lebanon, Palestine and Iraq because of American weapons used by the Zionists.

Remember the valiant Iraqi peasant and how he shot down an American Apache with an old weapon.

We are not intimidated by the size of the armies, or the type of hardware the US has brought.