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We hope that war will not take place, but if war is forced upon us then Iraq will continue to be here and this country with history of over 8000 years, this country, the cradle of the first civilization of humanity will not finish just like that even though a huge power may want to be like that. Nobody! Nobody should accept that Iraq should finish in such a way!

— Saddam Hussein Interview with Dan Rather (2003)

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I call on you not to hate, because hate does not leave space for a person to be fair and it makes you blind and closes all doors of thinking.

The great duel, the mother of all battles has begun.... The dawn of victory nears as this great showdown begins!

The lion does not care about a monkey laughing at him from a tree.

The most important thing about marriage is that the man must not let the woman feel downtrodden simply because she is a woman and he is a man.

Palestine is Arab and must be liberated from the river to the sea and all the Zionists who emigrated to the land of Palestine must leave.

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