When Americans invade Iraq, Bush says, we will be greeted as liberators by the Iraqi people, proving that taking out Saddam Hussein was the right thing to do.
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Saddam Hussein
The Dictator
Saddam Hussein
Was not sent to Haag
I wonder why?
Saddam Hussein
Tolerated Christians
Now they have fled
Saddam Hussein
Set women free to study
Now they wear chador
Saddam Hussein
Was a murderous despot
We gave him the tools
Saddam Hussein
We handed him to his foes
Silence on a long rope
poem by Oskar Hansen

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If you are Iraqi, you know who I am... and you know that I do not tire. I am the president of Iraq and I refuse to answer these questions because this court is illegitimate.
quote by Saddam Hussein

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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.
quote by Dick Cheney

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Saddam's Legacy
Saddam’s Legacy
A million Christians
Lived in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq
Now they have left
Save for a few hundred souls
Yet their plight goes unheard
Heed the echo
Of the loser of you war games
Christians yet Arabs
Fleeing the land of their heart
Unprotected and betrayed
This useless war
Fought for vain glory by us
Have we lost honor
Wallowing in extreme hubris
Future generation will pay the prize
Saddam Hussein
Was a bulwark against extremists
We hung him
Iraq is defenseless now
And al Qaida has a free run.
poem by Oskar Hansen

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It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein.
quote by Adam Schiff

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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.
quote by Peter King

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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.'
quote by Conan O'Brien

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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.
quote by Bill O'Reilly

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I am not going to answer to this so-called court, out of respect for the truth and the will of the Iraqi people. I've said what I've said, and I'm not guilty.
quote by Saddam Hussein

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To Noel Who Has George Bush Senior As His Hero
He say George Bush his hero but with him I don't agree
For George Bush bombers killed thousands just to set Kuwait free
And Saddam been defeated and two Countries been destroyed
And George Bush and John Major in allied victory take pride.
Noel say that I'm for Saddam but he has got it wrong
For on side of one who kill and maim I don't feel I belong
And Hussein is a killer and all who kill are bad
And George Bush just as bad as him which makes it all more sad.
Two hundred thousand Iraqis in Kuwait desert died
And the sands of Kuwait desert the shame of George Bush hide
And the Kuwait oil wells burning and blood's been shed for oil
And Kuwait now free Country but was it all worth while? .
And the sky o'er Kuwait desert from smoke as black as coal
And George Bush, Noel Johnson's hero, you can have your hero Noel
You applaud the allied bombers and condemn the I.R.A.
But they all throw bombs on people though you don't see it that way.
He say George Bush is his hero, George Bush who felt no shame
In murdering Iraqi people just to earn himself a name,
George Bush who bombed and murdered just to prove his country great
And whose crimes and shame lay covered by the white sands of Kuwait.
poem by Francis Duggan

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You know me... If you are Iraqi, you know me.
quote by Saddam Hussein

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We are not utilizing the Iraqi oil for U.S. purposes. We are not asking that the Iraqi oil be used to pay our military expenses. We are asking only that the Iraqi oil be used to rebuild Iraq - that is, to rebuild Iraq for the Iraqi people.
quote by Arlen Specter

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Beating Around The Bush: A Foreign Policy
Saddam claimed to be greater
than Hitler and Nebuchadnezzar,
an ancient king of Babylon.
Saddam believed he would
build a Greater Empire than both,
beginning from modern Iraq.
This is the man Mr Bush!
Decided to let continue
to rule during his watch?
In 1979 Iraqi President Saddam Hussein
claimed he was a direct lineal descendant
of Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar II.
Saddam called himself Nebuchadnezzar III
had coins struck showing his likeness
coined with the Babylonian king on these coins.
The two likenesses proved to be! Uncannily similar!
In his memoirs George Herbert Bush
compared Saddam to Adolf Hitler!
Aspirations for Empire! Ambitions!
Ethnic Cleansing! Rule by Dictatorship!
[Chemical weapons, deportations!
Forced disappearances, Secret police!
Targeted assassinations, torture, murders!
Sounds like a resume of Adolf Hitler!
Yes Saddam was another Hitler wanta be! ]
[This is monster Mr Bush
decided to let continue
to rule during his watch? ]
Invasion and Annexation
Kuwait invaded by Iraqi!
August 2 1990!
Iraqi forces first bomb
Kuwait City terror tactics!
The Kuwaiti civilian capital
attacked by Iraqi commandos!
Deployed by helicopters boats
all airports two airbases seized!
Remember Invasion Kuwait?
Saddam’s Iraq-Kuwait War?
Major conflict! Republic of Iraq!
State of Kuwait! Occupation!
Seven-month long Iraqi occupation!
Leading to direct military intervention!
United States-led forces in the Gulf War!
Remember Human Shields!
Western hostages!
August 23 1990!
Iraqi state television!
Saddam patted a small British boy!
Stuart Lockwood on the back!
Saddam asked through his interpreter!
‘Stuart is Stuart getting his milk’?
Saddam said 'We hope your presence
as guests here will not be for too long.
Your presence here, and in other places,
is meant to prevent the scourge of war.'
Remember Iraq-Kuwait War?
Two days of intense combat!
Kuwaiti Armed Forces!
Overrun by Iraqi Republican Guard!
Kuwaiti survivors escaped to border neighbours!
Saudi Arabia and Bahrain!
State of Kuwait was Iraqi abolished!
Saddam announced19th province of Iraq!
Empire building Saudi Arabia!
Saddam slotted for next invasion!
Saudi Oil! Black Gold! Saddam’s!
American dependent on Saudi Oil?
Kuwait had been a close ally of Iraq!
Kuwait had heavily funded the 8 year!
Iraqi war against Iran! Iraq-Iran war!
Kuwait functioned as Iraq’s major port!
Port Basra in Iraq had been shut down by fighting!
Invasion was the thanks Kuwait received!
First domino to fall in Saddam’s Empire Building!
The gall to attack under America’s nose!
Or surprise invasion Bush sanctioned?
American Ambassador in Iraq April Glaspie!
On July 25 1990! Gave the green light?
Interrogates the Iraqi high command to explain!
Iraqi military preparations in progress!
The massing of Iraqi troops near the border!
The American ambassador declared!
To her Iraqi interlocutor that Washington!
Inspired by friendship not by confrontation!
Has no opinion on the disagreement!
Between Kuwait and Iraq stating!
'we have no opinion on the Arab-Arab conflicts! '
Glaspie told Saddam Hussein that the U.S.
did not intend 'to start an economic war
against Iraq'. Saddam believed he had received
a diplomatic green light to invade Kuwait!
Is this why in spite of Iraqi saber-rattling?
Kuwait did not put military forces on alert!
Kuwait was caught with its pants down!
Decisive Iraqi victory in Blitzkrieg two days!
Bush playing off his Kuwaiti Iraqi pawns?
Saddam Hussein installed his cousin!
Ali Hassan al-Majid (Chemical Ali) ?
Governor in Kuwait after (lightning war) !
Following in his dictator Aryan idol
(Evil Nazi Adolf Hitler’s) footsteps!
Blitzkrieg tactic successfully used!
Kuwait taken! Saudi Arabia Bahrain!
These countries just the beginning!
Saddam believed he would!
Build a Greater Empire than both!
Beginning from modern Iraq!
Blitzkrieg tactic against Poland
(attacked in September 1939)
Denmark (April 1940)
Norway (April 1940)
Belgium (May 1940)
Netherlands (May 1940)
Luxembourg (May 1940)
France (May 1940)
Yugoslavia (April 1941)
Greece (April 1941)
Great Britain saved from Nazi German
ground attack by the English Channel!
An island protected by the Royal Navy!
Saddam monster Mr Bush!
Decided to let continue
to rule during his watch?
After seizing Saddam by the throat!
Following Blitzkrieg Desert Storm!
In 1991! Bush pats pawn on his back!
Allows Saddam to rule as he likes?
Killing Shia or Kurds at will!
[It would be more than ten
long suffering years later! Before
the eventual invasion of Iraq! ]
The collective blood guilt?
[The innocent killed during this time?
Shia Kurd pawns sacrificed!
Who has this blood on their hands? ]
Tell me again George! What was your plan?
Why was it necessary to keep Saddam?
To keep this puzzle piece puppet in place!
New Pearl Harbour before New World Order!
Keep hiding shifting the pea in the cups!
The con artist slight of hand blame game!
Wrap it with credible spectacular presentation!
Justify response to craftily engineered incident!
Make a few movies control media cover tracks!
All it takes to manipulate people foreign domestic!
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Iraqi Freedom
They have brought Saddam to justice and handed freedom back
Or at least that is what you tell me to the people of Iraq
But i always thought that freedom included freedom to live free of fear
Whilst every day from Iraq of more deaths through violence we do hear.
If you think Iraq is such a great place to live in you should try living there
And with the basic freedoms that you now enjoy your notes you can compare
For you do not seem enlightened on matters of liberty
On your ideas of Iraq i for one could not agree.
And your ideas of freedom seem quite laughable to me
How can one even know of basic freedom if of fear one can't live free
You should spend your next holiday in Iraq with your wife and family
Otherwise your ideas of freedom i cannot take seriously.
When you talk of Iraqi freedom talk is cheap and words are easily said
The only news we hear from Iraq is of more Iraqi dead
As a holiday destination Iraq i would not recommend
Unless of course you are suicidal and you wish your life to end.
poem by Francis Duggan

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Please choose the way of peace.... In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.
Mother Teresa in Letter to U.S. President George Bush and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, January 1991

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We have defeated Saddam Hussein and Iraq. The good news is Iraq is ours, and the bad news is Iraq is ours.
quote by David Letterman

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As the Iraqi people better understand that Saddam Hussein and his regime are history, it is my hope that they will get behind the coalition effort to help them create a democratic government and rebuild their country.
quote by Pete Domenici

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Three big assumptions proved wrong: one, that the Iraqi people would welcome us as liberators; two, that oil would soon pay for Iraqi's rebuilding; and, three, that we have plenty of troops, weapons, and equipment for the postwar situation.
quote by John Spratt

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To sum up, the position we took was that since we didn't know the internal situation in Iraq nor Saddam Hussein, that our best bet was to take counsel from the people who did know him and who did deal with him.
quote by Brent Scowcroft

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Since the ousting and capture of Saddam Hussein by U.S. forces, civil rights and personal freedoms have been restored in Iraq, as well as equal rights to all, not just to Saddam's entourage of terrorists.
quote by Jim Gerlach

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