Quotes about husseins (16 Quotes)




    Everyday the hunt for Iraqi assets unveils more and Hussein's thievery from the Iraqi people, ... Taking international action to identify and freeze funds pilfered by the fallen regime is crucial to the reconstruction efforts in Iraq.

    We were told by the president that we had no alternative but to go into Iraq because of the threat that Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction posed, but to date, these weapons have not been found.

    No other living dictator matches Saddam Hussein's record of waging aggressive war against his neighbors, ... pursuing weapons of mass destruction, using them against his own people, launching missiles against his neighbors, brutalizing and torturing his own citizens, harboring terrorist networks, engaging in terrorist acts including the attempted assassination of foreign officials, violating international commitments, lying and hiding his W. M. D. weapons of mass destruction programs from inspectors, deceiving and defying the expressed will of the United Nations over and over again.


    We think that the Operation Southern Watch and Northern Watch have been able to debilitate Saddam Hussein's air defenses quite a lot ... For one thing, we think that he's largely afraid to use his top of the line air defense systems, for fear of losing them to our patrolling airplanes.

    We fully support the president's decision today to undertake military action with our allies against Iraq. Saddam Hussein's defiance of U. N. weapons inspectors is a clear violation of the international community's determination to ensure that Iraq no longer poses a threat to the region.



    Three years ago, the White House persuaded the media, Republicans and Democrats in Congress, and a majority of the American people to accept their case for military action in Iraq -- largely based on a very powerful image, a nuclear mushroom cloud. The president, the vice president and others repeatedly warned of the looming threat of a nuclear weapon in Saddam Husseins arsenal that could be used against the territory of the United States.

    While the distance between the United States and Iraq is great, Saddam Hussein's ability to use his chemical and biological weapons against us is not constrained by geography - it can be accomplished in a number of different ways - which is what makes this threat so real and persuasive.




    But, as you have intimated, I am among those who would be very wary of any military action in the light of Saddam Hussein's willingness to allow the weapons inspectors to go in.




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