Saddam Hussein

“ Too, we have not seen or heard of a leader who has the minimal requisites of leadership, has acted soundly and has unsheathed his sword without having simultaneously heard the clatter of the swords of those who fight at his right, at his left, in front and behind, having caused the ears of those nearby tingled when those swords have been drawn of their sheaths aiming at the covetous, despot, occupant or oppressor. ”

“ Unless the Nation is in a good condition, it is arduous for any of its countries alone to be so, and it is equally hard for itself to be a good example for others to follow who will find it difficult to accept any effective role it might play amidst them or even to be conceived as a model for a better life.
Iraq has evidenced that it is capable of acting as though it were a nation by itself when it summons the spirit and morals of the glorious Arab Nation, of shouldering the responsibility of bearing the message and of reviving the Nation's role on the national and human levels. ”

“ We are a live part in the Nation and People in order to perform our national and pan-Arab role and duty towards them, and indeed towards humanity. We do not presume that our People and our Nation are two piecework contractors who would relieve us of the duty of executing a certain affair so that all we have to do is to wait and receive the keys of an accomplished project. With both, we construct and take the risk of construction just as we share happiness and delight when the construction is completed within its relative utmost. Too, we all defend the construction when it is exposed to danger. ”

“ Our prospective has never changed whether the Arab masses have acted in accordance with the level of their role in this or that cause or otherwise when their action or influence are below the level of their real capabilities. Indeed, we more adhere to our role and to our national and moral responsibility towards the Nation and its masses when they are weak; and conversely feel happy and rejoice when they promote their awareness and principles to a higher level. Truly, our moral and principled commitment has never changed nor has our hope retreated from its orbit. ”

“ We realize the significance of the morals we hold and our trueness to them. Surely we shall be victorious by the people and by the leadership of all prominent titles in our Nation: rulers or faithful leaders, or the heedful educated, self-sacrificers, mujahids and the steadfast of the People and Nation, men or women, civil or military, judges or university professors, artists, journalists, writers, great engineers or others. The young men and women of the Nation will be a tremendous enlightened force in all this. We do not grow date-palms or oranges, nor oats or barley. ”

“ It is only on this premiss, and not on what is common and prevalent that humanity has developed, that Man's role on earth has been enhanced. It has become then possible to perceive the oneness of the Lord of Heavens and Earth with indeed a firm belief in it, since this perception of God's oneness is a developed capability in both vision and conviction. With his liberation from what is only visible to the naked eye, Man was capable to formulate a thought of whatever is better, and a hope of achieving such a betterment, which has been attached to his thought. ”

“ Hence, the good which benefits Iraq, for instance, should, since we are one nation, benefit all the sons of our Arab Nation in one way or another: Iraqis, Egyptians, Syrians, Yemenis, people in the Arab Gulf and Maghrib (Northwest Africa) , otherwise, the concept of one nation remains inadequate, unable to cherish the principles of the fateful Arab solidarity among the sons of the Nation to stand in one rank in word, in deed and in trend. ”

“ This Revolution has substituted what is existing for what is good, and has proceeded along a course of incessant advancement, a revolution in which the revolutionary men do not bargain over such constant ascent nor over prolonging thestruggle without showing any sign of impatience, so as to set up the just society, to unify the Arabs in one will, one potent action capable of defence and advancement and to make the Arab Nation an example to be followed in humanity at large. ”

“ Yet no blame should lie on a people or a nation if it neglects its role in construction when the leader or leaders do not call for construction except at the time their pockets or accounts in the banks grow less than the minimum and hence have to be filled under the token of construction, whereby the slogan of construction and the appeal to it will be but a trickery. ”

“ Yet the experience, which has been replete with the morals of construction and ardour in our fight against the unjust and injustice, the despots and despotism for more than thirty years during which we have lead the great people of Iraq within the Ba'ath responsible, collective leadership, has taught us scientific, practical and social lessons as regards the People and its role with respect top the Nation's vitality as a base and a practical, spiritual and moral profundity, the basis of which is the human morals with which we interact and share our Nation and people. ”

“ He may desist from flexibility under the influence of sensitivity to peoples' rejection and distrust of whoever represents them. Hence it is not wise that any of the Nation's sons should forfeit the trust of the People and Nation except, without regret, the despicable traitor albeit what treason brings to a Nation known to be faithful to God, His holy books and messengers, a Nation which has played a leading role in conveying faithfulness, love, peace, justice and fairness to the whole humanity. ”

“ The sacrifices offered along its course are not only for the sake of Iraq, but also for the sake of our glorious Arab Nation as long as the Revolution remains national and for the whole Nation as it is for Iraq, as it is for humanity in general. The Revolution has proved by word and deed that the above account is genuine, not an allegation, and has been tested by precious blood in the most complicated circumstances. ”

“ Brethren, our prospect of the people's role, its revolutionary masses and its comprehensive, long-term strategy springs from our doctrine which deems the people a sufficiency to our struggle, fight, jihad and construction, and a historical means intrinsic in all the principles and morals we aspire after in the course of the victorious Revolution and its objectives, and not merely an unspecified, temporary means. ”

“ Yet, at all events, our endeavour should not contradict the premiss and aspiration. As we wish a just peace for all nations of the world, we ought to adhere to a just peace for our Nation regarding its issues and enemies and to reject surrender and all forms of humiliation, submissiveness and looking down at the Arab Nation. ”

“ They have rejected any submission, weakness, servility and bargaining at the expense of truth and right, any replacement of certainty by doubt, rendering the particular as a substitute for the general, hesitation for boldness and intrepidity, any sort of distancing itself from the course of achieving its great objectives or giving in to bargain over alternatives which bring no honour to the people. ”

“ It has subjected itself to the test of long struggle, not only to test its own seriousness, but also to test the trustworthiness of its leadership, the great people of Iraq and the glorious Ba'ath, to try out their sincerity after they have been unified into an inseparable one. ”

“ Only then and by virtue of taking this attitude, they are able to present a ransom for compatibility instead of revolution which will be ignited by the blazing flame of the disregard of the Nation's opinion and the complete contradiction between one stance and another. ”

“ Like you, we realize that the Nation and People may slug or neglect playing a certain role or roles, but they can never be inadvertent, sluggish or defeated for the whole time, indeed they cannot be negligent, slothful, indolent or defeated if they have a genuine leadership appropriate in mind, conscience, intellect and sword beside other conditions which are prerequisites to their tasks. ”

“ Our rapport with the masses is totally different from what some brothers think. As a corollary of the requisites of the legitimate struggle to which we appeal to the Arab masses including the requisite of awareness of their historic role in the battle we fight against oppressors, we do not dismiss in course and ardour, that the masses should defend, to a certain extent or in one manner or another, the Revolution and its right course, which, pursuant to what we have said in this speech as on other occasions, is their revolution too. ”

“ When this discord is created between all Arab rulers on one hand and the whole glorious Arab Nation, we mean here the overwhelming majority, on the other hand, it becomes perilous, resolvable only by revolution. Thence, we see that it is better for the Arab rulers to accommodate the viewpoints of the other Arab rulers or leaders vis-à-vis their own, and accept a policy different from theirs as regards the fateful issues on which they disagree, among and foremost of which is the question of Palestine. ”

“ The causes and significance of your patriotic, national, humanitarian, honest, serious and true revolution, capable of long struggle, cannot be explained but in terms of the sublimity and profoundness of its objectives. Thus, amidst humanity, the Revolution has aggrandized in depth and width. ”

“ Thereupon, praise and flattery have hailed down on a new Zionist prime minister in the hope of enabling the flatterer to play a new card on a new horse, not knowing that the exchange of roles, faces and names is merely a circumstance needed by Zionism to gain time, involve those led astray in new mazes and leave them all the time in a trend contrary to the trends of their Nation's opinion and will, and by corollary helping Zionism to utilize despair or revolution triggered by people's distrust of the ruler. ”

“ They cannot be put to fight or neglect except when their leadership is put to rout, is indolent or treasonable. Hence the People and the Nation cannot be held responsible for any shortcoming even when they recoil from playing a role by which they are supposed to advance. Rather the leading, key posts shall be responsible. We have not seen or heard of a people under a leadership whose role has met all principled, moral and practical requisites at reasonable utmost has ever been defeated, sluggish or lazy and has left the leadership alone to bare upper arms in construction. ”

“ Our Nation is not only known for its civilization and humanitarian role, but also as a nation of prophets and messengers from which God had chosen them and selected it to be a cradle and historical depth for them and for their role as well as a scene of action and holy fight, jihad. Consequently, the Nation shall not be held responsible for any negative account stated, attributed or accordingly described both as a historical formation and a historical force capable of playing its role when the Nation is revived. Others perhaps within the tokens of the Nation's items shall be. ”

“ Furthermore, one of the most significant, historical duties towards the nation and people is either to back the one who presides over a leading post and dignify him or else to utter a resounding pronouncement of what is right to attract attention to a deviation or an unusual commission. If he does not retreat, he will have nothing before him save cauterization, i.e., revolution, which will substitute what is bad for good lest the masses' aspirations should be buried alive and their forward movement should be hampered. ”

“ Al-mighty God has taught us, through his prophets and messengers, how the general can emerge from the particular and how the latter is governed by the former, by law and by corollary, when He made the Arab Nation and its vast land a cradle of prophethood and heavenly messages and bestowed upon Iraq the honour of having a greater share when he chose Abraham, the Iraqi, a father of prophets. ”

“ Once more, God has honoured our nation after the close of the era of prophethood and humanitarian messages by making the particu, having been minutely perceived, a starting-point towards the general and its right thought and towards a parallel great hope whose programmes have been subjected to test daily as a pronouncement that implementation is possible by relying on God and the ardour of noble Iraqis, the great example, and by the firm support of the sons of our glorious faithful nation as well as all friends in the world at large. ”

“ Thus Man in the great Arab homeland is the first to learn the thought which transcends what is tangible, common and visible from the prophets. Correlatively, the first Man who has received lessons in the necessities of the revolution, change and the qualifications for the appropriate leadership is the Arab man, under the sponsorship of God's apostles and their leading role. Accordingly, Man's patriotic and national role in our Nation and in Iraq has been associated with a humanitarian role, which is more universal and more comprehensive. ”

“ We in great mujahid Iraq do not accept this, having relied upon the principles and morals we have just stated. We pronounce in a voice, which means no harm to anyone but performs our duty towards God, ourselves, the Nation and humanity: Palestine is Arab; the Zionists must depart from it. Jews who want to co-live with its people have a right as citizens of one country, and those who have emigrated to it have likewise rights as well as obligations which they must accept. If they do not, each emigrant should go back to where he has come from and nothing else. ”

“ The first lesson from God to Man after creating him is that He taught him how to play his role in life and his obligation to develop it. Yet the most significant lesson relevant to that role was received from the revolutionary messengers and prophets whom God had accorded them a thought and the requisites for its implementation. He had planted in their souls, conscience and minds the hope of firm conviction and great faith that both thought and hope are applicable and spreadable, as they should and as God, glory be to Him permits. ”