6 Saddam Hussein Quotes on Politics

Saddam Hussein quotes on politics

5. Long live Iraq! Long live the Iraqi people! Down with the traitors!

8. Should Saddam be considered a condottiere, once in the pay of the U.S. government and then rebellious against his former masters? When war constitutes the global order and when the generals become the highest magistrates, we cannot but expect such developments.

9. The images of Saddam Hussein endlessly repeated on our screens before the war (Saddam firing a rifle into the air) made him into some kind of Iraqi Charlton Heston-the president not only of Iraq, but also of the Iraqi Rifle Association. The true interest of these images, however, is that they remind us how the ideological struggle is fought out not only at the level of arguments but also at the level of images: which image will hegemonize a field, and function as the paradigmatic embodiment of an idea, a regime, a problem.

11. I wish things were like when Ronald Reagan was still president.

13. Kuwait is an Iraqi territory. It was not an invasion.

23. We are safer, the region is safer, the world is safer without him.