The new judge, by muzzling Saddam and his people, gives the appearance that this is roughshod justice and he'll turn these guys into martyrs.
Cherif Bassiouni
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Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.
Richard Dearlove
The problem for the IOC is going to be when Saddam is overthrown and people walk into the Olympic headquarters and see the torture chamber and the blood on the floor. What will they say then?
Charles Forrest
Iraq, after the fall of Saddam Hussein, is not considered as a threat to its neighbors and the entire region.
Mahmud Ahmadinejad
Saddam has committed many crimes against humanity and against his own people.
Tom Cruise
(Saddam) will rebuild his arsenal of weapons of mass destruction and some day, some way, I am certain he will use that arsenal again, as he has 10 times since 1983.
Sandy Berger
There is no question that Saddam has been a pain in the neck ever since.
Lawrence Eagleburger
Saddam Hussein has left us a wasteland, ... This country could have been the economic powerhouse of the Middle East.
Barham Salih
My own view would be to let Saddam bluster, let him rant and rave all he wants. As long as he behaves himself within his own borders, we should not be addressing any attack or resources against him.
Dick Armey
Saddam was a bastard, but he was our bastard.
Phil Donahue
We are safer, the region is safer, the world is safer without Saddam.
Iyad Allawi
Where were the calls we hear from Arab and Islamic countries when Saddam was messing up the country?
Hazem Sha'alan
An old woman ... went up to Saddam and said 'What have you done to us?'
Matthew Mcallester
The information gleaned when we picked up Saddam Hussein led to a better understanding of the structure [of the insurgency], ... We think there are some of the leadership of this insurgency [that have been caught up in the sweep].
Richard Myers
During the occupation of Iraq, both US and UK used cluster bombs which killed hundreds of Iraqi civilians. The purpose of using these bombs was to test their efficiency, not to kill Saddam.
Bashir Ahmed
In the post-9/11 world you cannot give him the benefit of the doubt. As a result of our going into Iraq, not only is Saddam Hussein gone, but Qaddafi has given up his weapons of mass destruction and tremendous progress is being made in Iraq.
Peter King
Progress is running far behind Iraqi expectations in virtually every area. In their view, most Iraqis are not seeing 'amazing progress.' All too many of them live in constant danger, with less electricity in many areas than under Saddam Hussein.
Dewayne White
We went into Iraq because Saddam Hussein refused to account for his weapons of mass destruction, consistently violated UN resolutions and in a post-9/11 world no American president could afford to give Saddam Hussein the benefit of the doubt.
Peter King
This is a detour, and we have to get around it. Time is not on our side, and Saddam is running out the clock.
Frank Gaffney
I think, unless Saddam Hussein falls in a hole one day or somebody shoots him in the head, I personally think he is prepared to go down with his ship.
Lawrence Eagleburger
He thought Saddam Hussein should be deposed, and that George Bush made a hard decision and a good one.
Michael Berg
His actions by going out to the CIA, attempting to pressure analysts on the subject of weapons of mass destruction, all fall from his conviction that Saddam was an evil person who needed to be replaced by the US.
Vincent Cannistraro
One by one, my sons were taken from me, ... Saddam took away my sons, he took away half of my heart.
Hassan Ali
I am an opponent of Saddam Hussein, but an opponent also, of the sanctions that have killed a million Iraqi children and an opponent of the United States' apparent desire to plunge the Middle East into a new and devastating war.
George Galloway
Had the decision belonged to Senator Kerry, Saddam hussein would still be in power today in Iraq. In fact, Saddam Hussein would almost certainly still be in control of Kuwait.
Dick Cheney
There are memos, ... One of them marked 'secret' says 'Plan for Post-Saddam Iraq.'
Ron Suskind
We will go if they give us security or not. We will never abandon the president (Saddam) and we will not give the court the opportunity to appoint a lawyer to defend him.
Issam Ghazzawi
The invasion of Iraq was not justified because Saddam had already abandoned weapons of mass destruction.
Muammar Qadhafi
There is sufficient evidence to prove Saddam violated international treaties.
Jamal Karimirad
Over the past 10 months, we have learned that [deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's] most senior and trusted officials can hold their tongues.
Charles Duelfer
The first time there is a crisis somewhere else in the world, Saddam is bound to break his word.
Georgia Republican
Any postponement of an attack on Iraq at this stage will serve no purpose. It will only give him (Saddam) more of an opportunity to accelerate his program of weapons of mass destruction.
Ranaan Gissin
There was a quid pro quo with these tribal leaders that Saddam Hussein would provide them weapons and money, pander to their interests in their neighborhood, and they in turn would control their own people in the name of Saddam Hussein.
Sandra Mackey
The new Iraq will have to have a different flavor -- harsh on the criminals. Maybe Saddam will come soon.
Bassam Rhida
Had Britain so insisted, Iraq after Saddam might have avoided the violence that may yet prove fatal to the entire enterprise.
Christopher Meyer
We now know that Saddam [Hussein] has resumed his efforts to acquire nuclear weapons.
Dick Cheney
What'll be most interesting and most astonishing is if four years from now we look back and say, 'There were no weapons of mass destruction,' and what we'll say then is that 'Saddam Hussein had to be the stupidest leader that ever existed,'.
Ken Adelman
One meeting does not make a conspiracy. Saddam Hussein does not engage in these types of acts.
Peter Bergen
The CIA did contact the disease agency recently after a London newspaper published a book review six months ago. The book ... said that Saddam Hussein wanted to use the virus.
Barbara Reynolds
The SISMI had no role in the fabrication of the dossier on the sale of Niger uranium to Saddam Hussein 's regime.
General Nicolo Pollari
All non-convicted detainees have the right to vote. That includes Saddam and other former government officials.
Abdul Hussein Hindawi
We are finding new mass graves every day. Saddam Hussein committed a crime by using chemical weapons... He waged two wars on Iran and Kuwait. He murdered and executed hundreds and hundreds of Iraqis.
Jalal Talabani
It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.
Brent Scowcroft
Saddam Hussein and people like him were very much involved in 9/11.
Robin Hayes
This was an event ... that really shook Iraq to its core because the late ayatollah was a very powerful figure among the Shiites in the post-Saddam Hussein era.
Ben Wedeman
If we can kill Saddam, we should.
George Stephanopoulos
The problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly Saddam can acquire nuclear weapons. But we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.
Condoleezza Rice
But there is scant evidence to tie Saddam to terrorist organizations, and even less to the Sept. 11 attacks.
Brent Scowcroft
Saddam Hussein was put on notice that he can't do those type of things.
Peter Bergen
We will be launching an effort to help them organize and coordinate their case against Saddam Hussein.
Martin Indyk
He said 'Saddam'. Then Saddam hit him in the head with an ash tray.
Ahmed Hassan
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
The attack on Iraq has been long planned. There just hasn't been an excuse for it. Since George H.W. Bush didn't unseat Saddam in 1991, there's been a longing among the extreme right in the United States to finish the job. The war on terrorism has given them that opportunity.
John Pilger
There is already a mountain of evidence that Saddam Hussein is gathering weapons for the purpose of using them. And adding additional information is like adding a foot to Mount Everest.
Ari Fleischer
But that's going to be a little difficult because Saddam Hussein has a reputation for not putting anything in writing because he wanted to avoid this very thing.
Michael Scharf
It would be nice if we could switch to a policy where we could support some kind of Iraqi resistance that would take Saddam out of the box. However there's very little support for that in the region.
Joseph Collins
There is no question in my mind that if given a chance, Saddam will again try to become the bully on the block in his part of the world.
Lawrence Eagleburger
Most Iraqis remain less secure than they were under Saddam, less secure even than they were in the first year of the American occupation.
James Dobbins
Saddam Hussein was, I can say the most dangerous man in the world.
Yonadam Kanna
From the very beginning, there was a conviction that Saddam Hussein was a bad person and that he needed to go, ... For me, the notion of pre-emption, that the U.S. has the unilateral right to do whatever we decide to do, is a really huge leap.
Paul O'neill
Where was Kofi Annan when Saddam was slaughtering the Iraqis like sheep?
Hazem Sha'alan
What we saw today was not Saddam admitting guilt, but admitting to the fact that he acted in accordance with his official duties and powers.
Nehal Bhuta
Our statements about the threat posed by Saddam Hussein were based on the aggregation of intelligence from a number of sources and represented the collective view of the intelligence community.
Stephen Hadley
You stood beside Saddam while he was oppressing. You knew it was happening because it was on your borders. We expect from you to stand beside the Iraqi people, with the constitution and with those elected by the Iraqi people.
Abdel Aziz Hakim
He is being accused of delivering raw materials necessary to build Saddam Hussein's chemical weapons. The use of those weapons by the regime in Baghdad led to the death of thousands in Iraq and Iran.
Fred Teeven
I would agree that Saddam Hussein was bad, but I don't know that invading or sending troops over there, and the amount of troops that we have, is completely necessary.
Lauren Smith
Telling Saddam that they were further along than they actually were.
Joseph Cirincione
The story that emerges is that President Bush decides very early that he's going to get rid of Saddam Hussein.
Philippe Sands
The threat from Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction - chemical, biological, potentially nuclear weapons capability - that threat is real.
Tony Blair
Then it got corrupted with a capital C when Saddam figured out how to make money off of it by putting on the surcharges and kickbacks.
Paul A. Volcker
We had assumed that the report that Iraq has presented would be intensively checked by Hans Blix and his inspectors and it was assumed that there would be the opportunity for it first to be revisited or rather improved by Saddam Hussein.
Peter Struck
Most people by this time would be so wounded, they couldn't do anything with their lives. But his uncle filled Saddam with dreams of glory.
Jerrold Post
Only, only, when Saddam Hussein does not comply with both the inspections and the consequences of the inspections ... then there can be reason for a military intervention.
Ruud Lubbers
If the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and it's clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush administration again.
Bill O'reilly
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
We were able to tour the premises, and we were able to speak to Mr. Saddam Hussein in private without any witnesses present.
Antonella Notari
We are answering in the only language that he (Saddam) understands, the language of force.
Warren Christopher
What did Saddam Hussein ever do for Iraq ? ... The Iraqis have nothing.
Dr Kamal Hossain
God is greater than Saddam. The victims, the many victims, are greater than Saddam. Justice is bigger than me or Saddam. We look to justice, not into the face of Saddam.
Jaafar Mousawi
If there is aggression, the Americans will face these people who said 'yes' to Saddam Hussein.
Izzat Ibrahim
Now you've got Saddam in a position where he's either been flushed or he's been forced to go back [underground]. And if he's been flushed, and if he's running around every two hours as they say, then presumably he's just a couple of steps ahead of the coalition forces.
Joseph Wilson
The president views force as a last resort. He still hopes for a peaceful resolution and that is up to Saddam Hussein. The president is a strong advocate for freedom and democracy. And one of the democratic values that we hold dear is the right of people to peacefully assemble and express their views.
Jeanie Mamo
Nuclear deterrence doesn't work outside of the Russian-U.S. context; Saddam Hussein showed that.
Gen Charles Horner
Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.
Nancy Pelosi
Iraq and the Legacy of Saddam Hussein.
Sandra Mackey
Everybody down the line kept very meticulous records because Saddam told them, 'You get the surcharge from everybody,' ... So they all wanted to document how they got the surcharge.
Paul A. Volcker
Comparing me to putting the water department at jeopardy is like going to Iraq because Saddam had something to do with 9/11. That was a hell of a puzzle to put together.
Kwame Kilpatrick
In my opinion, the religious visions of Bush's circle are anachronistic. I can't believe that John Ashcroft has personal conversations with God every day, who tells him what to do. But if God told him that he should destroy Saddam, then this was the right advice, because a world without Saddam Hussein is better than a world with Saddam Hussein.
Adam Michnik
Look at Saddam, ... Saddam was a coward. Even his sons were more honorable than him. At least they fought and died.
Dr Kamal Hossain
They said Saddam had the electricity in Baghdad back on two months after the first Iraq War. It'd been two years after the start of the war when I was there, and the greatest nation on Earth couldn't even keep the lights on. It's understandable they're upset.
John Crawford
Saddam Hussein can't dictate who the inspectors are. It's like the bank robber saying he gets to choose the police.
Sandy Berger
What makes Saddam so much more a threat today than a month ago?
Tony Mitchell
For Iraq, it's very clear that Saddam Hussein deprived many people of their nationality - particularly the Kurds. What we would like to see in the negotiations on the constitution is to ensure ... that it is not possible to deprive a person of his or her nationality on grounds linked to religion or other factors.
Philippe Leclerc
It was known in the mid 90s already that Saddam Hussein was a dangerous tyrant that he had already launched aggressions against Iran, he had invaded Kuwait.
Douglas Feith
I'm suggesting that [Bush] is Saddam Hussein, the evil-doer.
Karen Finley
Saddam [Hussein] was a dictator, it was one-party rule, but now we have 60 parties running the country.
Falah Hassan
It's very important that we all send Saddam Hussein a message that is resolute, is firm and is united, ... He must be firmly told that he is not going to be permitted to continue to build weapons of mass destruction, particularly biological and chemical weapons.
Robin Cook
The invasion of Iran in 1980 was definitely one of the crimes committed by Saddam. We want the court to investigate the charges brought by Iranian people.
Jamal Karimirad
Few doubt the U.S. will act to remove [Saddam] unless he hands over weapons of mass destruction.
Lee Kuan Yew
As someone who has seen war first hand, and as a father of three young adults, it was my hope that we could have resolved this conflict and disarmed Saddam Hussein without war. However, this was not the case.
Allen Boyd
In the 1980's, our Arab allies in the region and our own assessment convinced us that Iraq might be a new kind of moderate Arab leader, that [Saddam] could be brought into the moderate Arab camp.
Patrick Tyler
I cannot speak on her behalf, after all President Saddam is her father, but her morale is good because she is confident of his innocence.
Issam Ghazzawi
Saddam will have rights that none of his victims had because of the Nuremberg precedent.
Michael Scharf
Saddam Hussein should change his mind and allow the U.N. to do its job.
James Rubin
What do you do if you're in a room with Muammar Qaddafi, Saddam Hussein, and John Sununu, and you have a gun with only two bullets? Shoot Sununu twice.
Michael Dukakis
If you catch him, just give me four seconds with Saddam Hussein.
Bruce Willis
Nevertheless Khalil carried a miraculous task and has been the only link between President Saddam and the outside world.
Issam Ghazzawi
If Saddam Hussein put up 1,000 missiles at our country, who would you go to for help? The Russians or the U.S.? Don't do it again.
Don Cherry
When you dismantle a system in which there is a despot who controls his people by force, you have chaos. I'm not sure we won't miss Saddam.
Yuval Diskin
Whether they are defending the Soviet Union or bleating for Saddam Hussein, liberals are always against America. They are either traitors or idiots, and on the matter of America's self-preservation, the difference is irrelevant.
Ann Coulter
We take every effort to avoid civilian casualties, but (Iraqi President) Saddam Hussein has to take a lot of the blame as long as he continues to violate the no-fly zones and attack our aircraft.
Steve Campbell
The case against Saddam focuses on a concrete event, while the charges against Milosevic are a bit vague and sometimes political.
Branislav Tapuskovic
I am trying to make everything like it was in the past - I mean before Saddam Hussein.
Hasanain Muala
What that dossier shows is that the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's regime is not some historic leftover, but is real serious and represents a mounting challenge to the international community.
Jack Straw
What the tapes show is that between the first gulf war and the second gulf war, Saddam Hussein had not lost his appetite for, or interest in, weapons of mass destruction. To the contrary, he was almost obsessed by them.
Gary Milhollin
Today we are sending a message to those U.S. companies and individuals that may have helped arm the brutal regime of Saddam Hussein.
Michael Garcia
But (when) Saddam changed his mind and said he couldn't be held responsible for security, the pope canceled the visit.
Dhia Mhesen
There are two big lessons if we fight Saddam. One is that there has to be unconditional surrender. And also, if the Bush administration is [going to] make Iraq into a democracy, [there will] have to be the will to stay there.
Michael Beschloss
Now that Saddam is detained, and democracy has started, we need to support our troops by bringing them home according to a responsible plan.
Bill Gluba
I'm not sure we won't come to miss Saddam.
Yuval Diskin
The so-called Downing Street memo from July 2002 says intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy of removing Saddam through military action, ... Is this an accurate reflection of what happened?
Steve Holland
After the Gulf War, I went around and talked to a number of very senior Bush administration officials, some of whom are in the new Bush administration, and they all assured me Saddam Hussein would fall in six months, because that was the basic take in the American intelligence community.
Michael Gordon
You're banking on getting in and seizing your objectives -- finding Saddam, for instance -- and taking over a city [without] getting bogged down in urban warfare.
Eric Schmitt
We were not involved in tracking down Saddam Hussein.
Ernst Uhrlau
In liberating Iraq, we have rid the nation and the rest of the world from the danger of Saddam Hussein.
Elizabeth Dole
We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction.
Edward M. Kennedy
It was in the national security interest, because we depended on the stability in Turkey and the stability in Jordan in order to encircle Saddam Hussein.
Edward Walker
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