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After they underestimated you, you Iraqis, now they've come on land this attempt is our chance to incur losses on them

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Saddam Hussein
Age: 69 †
Born: 1937
Born: April 28
Died: 2006
Died: December 30
Former President Of Iraq
Military Personnel
Politician
Saddam
Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti
Hussein
Iraq
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Iraqis
Underestimated
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We pledge to you in our name... that we will resist the invaders.
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Controlled Middle East oil, it would control the world. This oil represents 65 percent of world oil reserves. Therefore, America believes if it squashed Iraq, it would control the oil of the Middle East and consequently hold the oil in its hands [and] fix its price the way it likes.
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I have been hit by the Americans and tortured. I have been beaten on every place of my body, and the signs are all over my body.
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The Iraqis are committed to their rights as much as they are committed to the rights of others. Without peace they will be faced with many obstacles that would stop them from fulfilling their human role.
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Those who fight in God's cause will be victorious.
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There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is God's messenger.
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Once again, the hopeless cowardly Americans were back to repeat their cowardly act hiding behind a technological advance that God, most gracious, wanted it to be their curse and cause for shame.
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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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Long live Iraq! Long live the Iraqi people! Down with the traitors!
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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.
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The oil is a gift bestowed by God on the Arab nation, to use after centuries of poverty, backwardness and servitude - in raising its living standards, developing its economic, social and cultural conditions, and building up its own power to meet the challenges and conspiracies besetting it.
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Historically, and since, 1520, eighteen Treaties have been concluded between the Persian State and its western neighbours regarding its relations therewith including the question of borders. On all occasions, the Persian State chose the opportunity to violate the said Treaties whether by word or deed.
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Today you are standing in a position that would please the friend and would anger the enemy and all the infidels. You will be victorious against the enemies and you are causing them to suffer.
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Strike them and strike evil so that evil will be defeated.
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Don't be attracted to easy paths because the paths that make your feet bleed are the only way to get ahead in life.
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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.
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