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Quotes by Iraqi Authors
"I didn't say 'former president,' I said 'president,' and I have the constitutional rights according to the constitution, including immunity from prosecution."
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"Justice for the major perpetrators cannot be separated from the vindication of the rights of the individual victim."
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"The fact is that as soon as they reach Baghdad gates, we will besiege them and slaughter them. Until now they have refused to do battle with us. They are just going places. One can describe them as a boa: when it feels threatened, it runs to somewhere else."
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"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."
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"Are these the Americans? People remain silent and placate the Americans. By God, they only deserve scorn. We slaughtered them yesterday and we will continue to slaughter them."
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"Our gratitude to the American people is immense and we should never be embarrassed to express it."
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"Blair... is accusing us of executing British soldiers. We want to tell him that we have not executed anybody. They are either killed in battle, most of them get killed because they are cowards anyway, the rest they just get captured."
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"We made them drink poison last night and Saddam Hussein's soldiers and his great forces gave the Americans a lesson which will not be forgotten by history. Truly."
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"I don't think that they have many of the scientists who were involved in the weapons program to talk to at this time, and there were thousands of people, engineers and scientists, they know where the weapons are."
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"I think people are rapidly losing confidence in the political class, and I don't blame them."
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"Yesterday, we slaughtered them and we will continue to slaughter them."
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"Rather, it is through conciliation and compromise that we are building a fair Iraq, a just state for all its peoples."
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"The justice of our cause must be reflected in the manner in which we rectify the crimes of the past."
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"I was hit many times in various parts of the body, including my right leg, and thank God I am recovering. I was also severely wounded in my left leg. Iraqi and French doctors will conduct an operation shortly and, God willing, I will recover."
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"We have no such weapons at all, no chemical weapons, no biological weapons."
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"Your message is stupid. Iraq is not afraid of you or anyone else when it has a right to claim. What you warned about is not on Iraq's agenda. Iraq is vital and powerful. It is not an opportunistic country. Your administration has not learned from the past."
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"If the security forces continue to be dominated as they are now by political groups or sects, then the people won't trust in them - and the result will be civil war or fragmentation of the country."
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"Search for the truth. I tell you things and I always ask you to verify what I say. I told you yesterday that there was an attack and a retreat at Saddam's airport."
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"There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never!"
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"Today, the tide has turned, we are destroying them."
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"The Kurdish people have the right of self-determination like every other nation in the world."
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"Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession."
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"Washington has thrown their soldiers on the fire."
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"It has been rumored that we have fired scud missiles into Kuwait. I am here now to tell you, we do not have any scud missiles and I don't know why they were fired into Kuwait."
Now,
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"We see an extensive program of dismantling state institutions... These are ingredients for catastrophe."
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"It won't be a question of how well-trained or well-equipped the army is but one of the authority it serves."
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"We are succeeding in Iraq. It's a tough struggle with setbacks, but we are succeeding."
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"The United Nations is a place for prostitution under the feet of Americans."
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"The Kurdish people welcome the no-fly zone protection, contrary to the Iraqi regime that is against it."
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"They are sick in their minds. They say they brought 65 tanks into center of city. I say to you this talk is not true. This is part of their sick mind."
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