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There's no question that Saddam Hussein is a threat... Yes, he has chemical and biological weapons. He's had those for a long time. But the United States right now is on a very much different defensive posture than we were before September 11th of 2001.

The United States encouraged Iraqis to rise up after Saddam Hussein's army was driven out of Kuwait. Washington assumed Saddam was weak after losing the 1991 Gulf War. Iraqis rose up, but Saddam's troops killed thousands - Iraqis say tens of thousands - in a counter-offensive.

The United States and our allies and the Arab neighbors of Saddam ... must recognize that as long as Saddam Hussein remains in power he is a destabilizing factor for the entire region. He's a very dangerous man,

I've been looking forward to seeing the trial of the criminal, ... I feel that my sister's soul will not go wasted if I could see Saddam dead.

it would make a big difference politically and legally if Saddam refused to allow in the U.N. inspectors.

I urge Saddam Hussein to save the people of Iraq from violence, ... I urge him to take a step toward ultimately someday lifting the sanctions, I urge him to comply with United Nations resolution, and I want him to know that.

I very much hope that it is the deal we are looking for, ... What he is saying is encouraging ... If he has got the kind of deal that appears to be emerging, he has moved Saddam a long way.

It would be nice if we could switch to a policy where we could support some kind of Iraqi resistance that would take Saddam out of the box. However there's very little support for that in the region.

It was to say to the United Nations, 'By your standards ... you have not done your job relative to Saddam Hussein,'

The Shiites in the south and the Kurds in the north would need to join together, but the Kurds are more interested in independence. Iran, Syria and Turkey are unlikely to support an independent Kurd state because of their significant Kurdish populations, and others in Iraq will not support overthrowing Saddam if they think it will result in a breakup of the country.

The stated policy of my administration towards Saddam Hussein was very clear. Like the previous administration, we were for regime change,

The standard of living and prosperity of the Iraqi people would be infinitely greater were Saddam not there,

The story that emerges is that President Bush decides very early that he's going to get rid of Saddam Hussein.

The so-called Downing Street memo from July 2002 says intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy of removing Saddam through military action, ... Is this an accurate reflection of what happened?

The stakes are very high, ... We're telling our American friends: 'We can do it together. We can do Baghdad together. We can do Iraq together. We, the Iraqi people together with the American liberators and the British liberators, we can achieve the task of getting rid of Saddam Hussein and his terrorist allies.'

telling Saddam that they were further along than they actually were.

Saddam will have rights that none of his victims had because of the Nuremberg precedent.

Saddam's ultimate designation is unaffected and undetermined by this designation. President Bush said that the pursuit of justice with regard to Saddam Hussein should have an Iraqi leadership role.

Saddam is in box. We can tighten that box, and we don't need to go to war,

Saddam is gone. It's a good thing, but I don't agree with what was done,

Saddam is again pushing the canard that sanctions -- rather than the misrule and the cynical manipulation of his own people that Saddam Hussein propagates -- are responsible for the suffering of the Iraqi people.

Saddam Hussein was the one person after whom the United States went, and they ruined the country.

Saddam Hussein was put on notice that he can't do those type of things.

Saddam Hussein was given every opportunity to comply, but he chose continued defiance, even after being given one final opportunity to comply or face serious consequences. Our public and private comments are fully consistent.

Saddam Hussein (the Iraqi president) has guranteed the safety of the passengers aboard and will treat them as if they were Iraqi citizens.

Saddam Hussein should change his mind and allow the U.N. to do its job.

Saddam Hussein played a terrible game of trying to deceive the world that he had weapons of mass destruction. Everyone bought it. The United States called him on his braggadocio, and we are all paying for the results - especially the American taxpayer.

Saddam Hussein is the most dangerous man in the world today, ... We say that because he's used chemical weapons against his own people. He's invaded his neighbors.

Saddam Hussein is one of the greatest killers -- and a smart one -- around us. He endangers his own people. He endangers his neighbors. And he will not stop being a danger because this is his nature, and this is his position,

Saddam Hussein is now taking his rightful place alongside Hitler, Stalin, Lenin, Ceausescu in the pantheon of failed brutal dictators, and the Iraqi people are well on their way to freedom,

Saddam Hussein is not the only autocrat in the world to possess arms of mass destruction of a chemical, bacteriological or a radioactive type. He's not the only one to have worked actively on a nuclear program, but he is the only one to have used those weapons on a large scale over a long history of aggression, military aggression, attacking his neighbors and his own people.

Saddam Hussein is not entitled to any presumption of innocence.

Saddam Hussein is no longer in power. And the Iraqi people have had their first free election in 50 years. Those are good things.

Saddam Hussein is a war criminal and he deserves to be executed 20 times a day for his crimes against humanity.

Saddam Hussein is a congenital liar, and he cheats and he steals and he cannot be allowed to defy the international community,

Saddam Hussein, in effect, has thumbed his nose at the world community. And I think that the president's approaching this in the right fashion.

Saddam Hussein has left us a wasteland, ... This country could have been the economic powerhouse of the Middle East.

Saddam Hussein has killed more Muslim people than perhaps any living person on the face of the Earth,

Saddam Hussein has certainly figured himself to be a sort of emperor of Mesopotamia and the leader of the Arab world.

Saddam Hussein has brought this crisis on himself,

Saddam Hussein has been tenacious in his pursuit of weapons of mass destruction and, unless he is removed from power, he will eventually harm our nation and our allies. Every moment we delay allows him to grow stronger.

Saddam Hussein had to know that the international community could not tolerate his behavior.... There is no question whatsoever about our solidarity with the international community, and with our alliance partners the United States and Great Britain,

Saddam Hussein didn't kill 3,100 people on Sept. 11. Osama bin Laden did, and as far as we know he's still alive.

Saddam Hussein committed many crimes, the most important of which are the mass graves that hold hundreds of thousands of Iraqis including children, women, the elderly and men who were buried without a trial.

Saddam Hussein can't dictate who the inspectors are. It's like the bank robber saying he gets to choose the police.

Saddam Hussein and people like him were very much involved in 9/11,

Saddam has a chance and he has to take it,

Saddam did not have a serious military plan to confront the coalition, but he had a serious post-defeat plan which he's putting into operation,

Saddam deserves a death sentence 20 times a day because he tried to assassinate me 20 times,

Saddam and his colleagues are not the giants that the media sometimes talks about. Saddam sent us an oral message in which he begged for mercy. He said that they were working in the public interest and did not mean any harm,

Saddam alone is to blame for his people's suffering. It is a myth that UN policy prevents the delivery of food and medicines. To export most goods to Iraq - including food, medicines, agricultural and educational equipment, and water and sanitation goods - it is simply necessary to notify the UN.

President Saddam Hussein was in very good spirits, very clear minded. We had a good discussion after the court.

President Chirac has said Saddam Hussein was his friend -- a friend, one of the most brutal dictators in this world?

Progress is running far behind Iraqi expectations in virtually every area. In their view, most Iraqis are not seeing 'amazing progress.' All too many of them live in constant danger, with less electricity in many areas than under Saddam Hussein.

Personally I don't have all of the information President Bush has, but I believe Saddam has committed many crimes against humanity and in his own people,

Other countries possess weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles. With Saddam, there is one big difference: He has used them...The international community had little doubt then, and I have no doubt today, that left unchecked Saddam Hussein will use these terrible weapons again,

So what we have is the military option pretty active right now. It's very easy for this crisis to end, and that is for (Iraqi President) Saddam Hussein to simply to allow free access to all sites by the U.N. inspectors and let the U.N. inspection team do its job, not politicize it and to stop threatening its neighbors. That's the solution.

Delay would give Saddam the clearest possible signal that his strategy is succeeding, ... It would tell him that the international community lacks the will to disarm him.

days of the Saddam Hussein regime are numbered.

compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein had acquired nuclear-weapons capability.

Despite its claims that the people of Iraq are dying due to a lack of food and medicine, Saddam Hussein doesn't hesitate to spend hundreds of millions of dollars for the entertainment of Baath Party officials and cadres.

Any delay would have given Saddam Hussein time to reconstitute his arsenal of weapons of mass destruction and undermine international support for our efforts. It also would have been contrary to the president's commitment in November to respond militarily to future Iraqi provocations.

and that's why we are together exerting pressure so that Saddam Hussein lets international observers into the country.

Are the American people really behind me, as I take on Saddam Hussein?

As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Sen. Kerry shared the assessment of the threat posed by Saddam Hussein, ... He voted for the use of force in Iraq, then later tried to say it was a vote to 'threaten' the use of force, and then ultimately declared himself an 'anti-war' candidate.

As Americans, we need to be concerned not only about another humanitarian tragedy for the Kurds of Iraq, but also about the potential resurgence of Saddam Hussein as a menace to the peace and stability of this vital region,

The British government fully supports the unequivocal message to Saddam Hussein that repression of innocent civilians and reckless acts of brutality are unacceptable,

Baghdad for now appears to be drawing a line short of conducting terrorist attacks with conventional, or CBW (chemical and biological weapons) against the United States, ... Should Saddam conclude that a U.S.-led attack could no longer be deterred, he probably would become much less constrained in adopting terrorist actions.

You're seeing a follow-through of what you've seen this week, ... On Monday, you had some profit-taking after Saddam Hussein's capture, Tuesday you saw a rally, Wednesday it consolidated and today we're up again. I would expect the week to end on an up note.

You may say that the Iraqis are overcompensating for Saddam's deceptive pro-Arab slogans. This does not justify what is happening, but might explain it. Saddam used to give the Arabs privileges in Iraq while depriving the Iraqis of similar privileges. There is a reaction in the street and it should be contained. We cannot turn our backs on our Arab milieu.

This is how Saddam Hussein used oil for food -- to line his own pockets and and curry favor with politicians.

This is not Saddam Hussein versus the United States, ... This is Saddam Hussein versus the United Nations.

The U.S. presence and American missteps made ethnic violence in Iraq far worse than it would have been otherwise after Saddam Saddam Hussein's fall.

The White House wants us to have a permanent commitment to Iraq. This is an Iraqi problem. President Bush got rid of Saddam Hussein and that was a great thing, but that could have been done in a very different way.

The United States of America is prosperous and free. But storm clouds gather on our horizon. Our national security is challenged by the continued malfeasance of Saddam Hussein. Our economic security is challenged by a growing worldwide recession. Our future is bedeviled by too many schools that perform poorly and by a Social Security system in need of reform,

This election was as free and fair as it would have been under Saddam or Hitler.

This is a detour, and we have to get around it. Time is not on our side, and Saddam is running out the clock.

They say they want to get rid of Saddam Hussein. They don't say that they want to apply pressure for the foreign observers to enter the country again, and that is the policy of which I said that it is wrong at this moment,

They saw Saddam as a threat that had to be removed.

Although the relevant authorities are investigating this appalling crime, it bears all the hallmarks of leftover supporters of Saddam Hussein's evil regime.

A lot of people were expecting that Saddam Hussein would pull a trick before year-end because he was trying to put pressure on the U.N. to lift sanctions or try to alter the position of the sanction, so he threatened two weeks ago to stop exporting oil, ... The traders panicked in anticipation of a supply shortage, but Iraq never stopped producing oil.

They drew the conclusion that Saddam Hussein was a threat to peace, that he had weapons of mass destruction. They acted against him militarily in 1998,

They had 2 1/2 years to prepare this case. They are giving us just three weeks. What's the hurry? Saddam is not going anywhere.

They are coming to convey their concerns on the conduct of the trial of Saddam Hussein.

The report does further document Saddam's attempts to deceive the world and get out from under the sanctions, but the fact remains, the sanctions combined with inspections were working and Saddam was restrained.

... This is too serious a game to be playing to continue to be strung out by Saddam Hussein.

There is sufficient evidence to prove Saddam violated international treaties,

Absent a dictator, absent the Saddam Hussein regime, our goal would be first to have a single country, not have a country broken up into pieces, it would be to see that it would be a country without weapons of mass destruction, a country that did not try to impose its will upon its neighbors and it was a country that was respectful of the rights of minorities and the ethnic groups that exist in the country,

It was Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda who attacked the U.S. on September 11, 2001, not Saddam Hussein and Iraq.

It will have due process and the right of appeal and be an open trial with attorneys and lawyers, something that is really unprecedented in Iraq's recent history and quite a contrast from the courts that Saddam himself established in Iraq to try his enemies,

It's a win-win situation for Saddam and his cronies. He either goes in there and he takes over the proceedings, or he stays out and he turns out to be a martyr, which is an absolute tragedy for the victims.

It's all about the oil. It's the blood that fuels our way of life here. We didn't want (former Iraqi President) Saddam Hussein to monopolize it. Money is driving the oil. We need other means of energy.

It is unfathomable to imagine Saddam Hussein standing before Congress praising human rights, free speech, and democracy like Mr. Allawi did today. Yet, some still say the world would better off with Hussein in power.

For instance, I was a little surprised that the Shiites didn't rise up against Saddam and the Baath party across most of the country when the Americans moved in March and April of 2003.

For decades, Saddam and his Sunni minority had imposed their will on Iraq, carrying on a 14-century tradition of Sunnis controlling Mesopotamia despite a Shiite majority.

It looks like today, and this could change, as of today it looks like women will be worse off in Iraq than they were when Saddam Hussein was president of Iraq

It's Saddam Hussein's style of justice, and it's appalling.

The New York Times allegations are wrong in all their details. The claim that the two BND officers had acquired Saddam Hussein's plan to defend the Iraqi capital and handed it to the U.S.A. one month before the war's outbreak, as is stated in the New York Times, is false.

the notion of a Saddam Hussein, with his great oil wealth, with his inventory that he already has of biological and chemical weapons, that he might actually acquire a nuclear weapon is, I think a frightening proposition for anybody who thinks about it.

Then it got corrupted with a capital C when Saddam figured out how to make money off of it by putting on the surcharges and kickbacks,