Saddam Hussein

“ I will say that the Arab nation is our nation. We belong to it and it belongs to us. It is our pride and our strength. It is our depth and Iraq is its depth. In its name was our call of chivalry, and in the name of its great ideals, our great ideals and its principles, we assaulted falsehood and knocked out its brain and caused it to perish. It is the nation of prophets, of martyrs and of holy men, it is our nation. ”

“ From these significant examples and meanings you can understand how an Iraqi loved his nation and loved Iraq, how he forbore, fought and held his ground, how he built towering buildings, how and why he plants trees and flowers even while the blazing flames of fire were and still are scorching his face in the continuous aggression of the evildoers and the injustice of their followers, how and why he sows the seeds of life and smiles to them and how and why he builds and elevates the building after removing the debris of destruction. ”

“ The museum of civilization has remained radiating its meaning and keeping its original patterns safe, for they lie latent in the deep faith and in the true viability inside the souls and inside the giant tree of life, whose roots go deep down in human history, to the nation and to people everywhere generations after generations. ”

“ Iraq has triumphed over the enemies of the nation and over its enemies. It will triumph in all the remaining rounds with the help of Allah because it has achieved its triumph inside its soul, its conscience, its heart and its mind. ”

“ Consider what this heedless child can do when he feels jealous of a rich museum and finds that he has the means to destroy it. None but this description fits those who waged and are still waging aggression and inflicting destruction upon the museum of faith, virtue, civilization, noble stand, the museum of the brave men and glorious women, and the great tree of life in the Iraq of the Arabs and the Muslims and the Iraq of faith. ”

“ No! The properties of our thundering sea will never change. And those who represent it in the sublime and principled stands are the true representatives of its properties. Everything else is accidental and short-lived.
Long live every stout-hearted and every faithful and generous individual in the Arab nation who is ever enraged at falsehood, discontented with it.
But did you know what happened in that continuous encounter then, and in this one which is going on even now? Did you know what the injustice and the embargo did to the people of Iraq? ”

“ It is my nation. No individual, even though he may say he belongs to it, can ever do evil to it or to its character. Will a rivulet with stale or stagnant water change the properties of the thundering sea? ”

“ As for you, striving and struggling Arabs, this is known, too, by anyone of you who envisages, remembers and never forgets the maturity of the bills of the great principles of faith as a debt becoming due and as an assignment entrusted to him by Allah and by anyone of you who remembers that his ancestors were the pioneers of faith and the principles of human civilization and the lofty banners to the whole mankind. ”

“ Those ugly faces lined up dishonourably against and in front of faces beaming in beauty and brightness while looking towards their Lord with the marks of the People of Paradise, the faces of the pious martyrs and the faces of the living who have never changed their determination. ”

“ So, those with the highest attributes, the attributes of dignity, honour and heroic stand, and with them the people of great Iraq had their chance to be at the zenith while the debased and the treacherous had theirs at the nadir. ”

“ At that time, on a day like this day ten years ago, Evil and all those who made Satan their protector lined up in one place, facing those who represented the will to defend right against falsehood and who had Allah as their Protector. ”