Frases de Sadam Husein

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En una carta personal (MSNBC online)

„¡Viva Irak! ¡Vivan los pueblos iraquís! ¡Abajo los traidores!“

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Entrevista para la revista Al-Mar'a en 1978.

„La ilaha il-Allah, wa Muhammadu…“

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Transmitido por la BBC, en el juicio de 2006.

„Somos más seguros, la región es más segura, el mundo es más seguro sin él.“

No hay más dios que Dios y Mahoma... [es su profeta])

„Su Excelencia, Sr. Presidente: Le saludo, en el nombre de los muchos millares de gente en Gran Bretaña que estaba parada contra la marea y opuso la guerra y la agresión contra Irak y continúe oponiendo la guerra por medios económicos, que está dirigido para estrangular la vida del gran pueblo de Irak.“

Iyad Allawi, integrante del Gobierno de Irak.
Acerca de Saddam Hussein

„No hay más dios que Dios y Mahoma.“

George Galloway
Acerca de Saddam Hussein

„The west need someone to tell the man who walks around with the biggest stick in the world, that that stick can`t bring down God`s house.“

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Las últimas palabras antes de ser ejecutado.
Original: «La ilaha il-Allah, wa Muhammadu».

„Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated.“

„Traditionally Marxism attracts the oppressed. This, however, is not the case in the Arab nation… The socialist programs in Arab history did not always come from the poor, but from men who had known no oppression and became the leaders of the poor. The Arab nation has never been as class-conscious as other nations.“

" Women: One Half of Our Society http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Women_-_One_half_of_our_society" (1981).
Fuente: The Revolution and Woman in Iraq
Contexto: The complete emancipation of women from the ties which held them back in the past, during the ages of despotism and ignorance, is a basic aim of the Party and the Revolution. Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated.

„Palestine is Arab and must be liberated from the river to the sea and all the Zionists who emigrated to the land of Palestine must leave.“

n.d., quoted in Saddam Hussein: a political biography (2002) by Efraim Karsh and Inari Rautsi.

„For the first time in modern history a Third World state has successfully fought a defensive war — the longest such war between regular armies since the Second World War — without being under the umbrella of a particular military pact or the influence of a particular great power; and without suffering any shackles on its will and independence, or abandoning its principles and policies.“

On Iraqi Television, May 30, 2001; quoted in Robert Wistrich, Muslim Anti-Semitism: A Clear and Present Danger(2002), page 43.

„Long live Iraq! Long live the Iraqi people! Down with the traitors!“

President Saddam Hussein's Speech on National Day (1981)

„The Persian aggression against Iraq was a result of the arrogant, racialist and evil attitudes of the ruling clique in Iran. At the same time, it was a Zionist and imperialist conspiracy aimed at liquidating Iraq's revival and checking its development for decades. It tried to strip you of your shining mind and heart, in the same way as it tried to destroy the scientific, cultural and technical bases of your new revival. But you, with courage, patience and efficiency — thanks to the Revolution's achievements — have been able to meet a challenge which many peoples in the world may fail to meet, and which some countries in the Arab homeland have indeed failed to meet.“

Death Penalty for Saddam Hussein http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6117910.stm (BBC News online)
Reaction on being sentenced to death, November 5, 2006.

„Great Iraqi men and women, members of the families of the martyrs, You have offered the homeland the best thing you could afford. Thus you have come to merit love and gratitude from all Iraqis and from its plains, mountains, skies and waters. You are good sons of this country. You have offered to the country great men who have averted harm from the country and paved its way to glory and greatness.“

President Saddam Hussein's Speech on National Day (1981)

„You Americans, you treat the Third World in the way an Iraqi peasant treats his new bride. Three days of honeymoon, and then it's off to the fields“

President Saddam Hussein's Speech on National Day (1981)

„During the rule of the Shah, arrogance, aggression, territorial expansion at the expense of the Arabs and attempts to harm Iraq's national sovereignty and the rights of the Arab nation were a constant pattern. Iraq and the Arab nation were regarded as a sphere of influence for the expansionist plans of Iranian interests. That policy has been followed throughout history by the State of Persia against its neighbours to the west, and as we have shown.“

Meeting with US State Department officials (1985), as quoted in The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Gulf War (2002) by Charles Jaco, p. 23.

„President Saddam, he always think about America, "They are foolish. They don't understand anything in this world. They never travel. They don't know anything outside the area. Just they believe what the president says. They are the dictatorship, not us." And about George Bush, the father, he always called him stupid.“

Statement of H.E. Mr. Saddam Hussein, President of the Republic of Iraq, on the Iraq-Iranian conflict (1981)

„We have to work sincerely and responsibly to thwart any attempt to divide the Arab nation into small groups, with which foreign countries would deal separately. This would eventually be in the interests of Zionism, which stands behind such policies, formulating the relevant theories and promoting distorted information to world politicians, especially in the West, in order to make them adopt an approach which is harmful to the Arab nation and is even against the legitimate interests of their own countries.“

Latif Yahia, double for Uday Saddam Hussein, in I knew… Saddam (31 July 2007) Al Jazeera English
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„I call on you not to hate, because hate does not leave space for a person to be fair and it makes you blind and closes all doors of thinking.“

President Saddam Hussein's Speech on National Day (1981)