Saddam Hussein

“ He has bestowed victory upon the faithful who have a history rooted to its base of great faith and associated with the virtuous models and symbols as an inseparable whole. It is a triumph over those who have endeavoured to make Iran's history dissociated from the sources of perpetuity of the Islamic history and have dismissed the elements and virtues of love to be replaced by hatred which has been wedged by their own manner and thus distanced them from the stream of the principles of great Islam to continue uncleansed by the water of its upright principles. ”

“ And as the Mongols and Tatars had burned books of science and knowledge, murdered the scientists in Baghdad and wasted the Nation's opportunity for a long time, some of the backward too pushed by their destructive force and backsided by their evil intents have thought that they are capable of killing men of knowledge and tokens of pen, wisdom, sword and banner in Baghdad, which is rising higher and for the better. Hopeless indeed will be their presumptions, and surely evil are the things they have been doing. ”

“ Do the disclosure of falseness and humbug and the revelation of the right and truth not render a good service to humanity and not only to Iraq or the Arab Nation? It has also become clearer and clearer how and why the day of the great victory, August 8, 1988 is worthy of celebration and rejoice by us, the Iraqi people, the Nation and all good and peace loving peoples. It deserves to be called back to mind all the time as a wonderful, humane outcome albeit all happenings. ”

“ Hence, we can expound the reason when Baghdad's eyes are closed, all Arabs' eyes are closed too, and why when it wakes up once more, the sword would be associated with the pen, both being based on wisdom, yet each forming a flank founded on the great morals of civilization and the eternal heritage of our Nation where giant falcons fly to protect the sky and land of Iraq so that Baghdad should proceed with its course to the summit armed with the principles of construction and advancement, and holding the sword to defend the sublime morals. ”

“ Our apology, valiant men and praiseworthy women, beloved boys and girls, is that, on this occasion as well as on others, we, in Iraq, have begun to communicate by gestures and by eyes and not only by speech which these two support. We also communicate when our consciences meet in the space of great love and become so exalted that a constant pledge is held to build our country, boost the faithful men and defend our dear homeland and the great principles of our glorious Nation. ”

“ Hence, if the requirement of genuine association with the collective state of the public and the elite of the people and nation, more specifically with the ruler or rulers of the new religion, to position themselves in fancy and reality in accordance with its standards and to act ethically, is not met, then the history of the nation in the final outcome would cease to persist and to interactively serve as a link between old and new. ”

“ As every man has energy, feelings and thinking, nations too have their energy, feelings and thinking. The results, their kind and level depend on the direction in which the energy, feelings and thinking are oriented. Here, leaders play their role and shoulder their decisive responsibility in determining results in the light of selecting objectives and manner. If they release potentialities and their traits in the direction of destruction and evil, they will reap what is relevant to both, for this is the very road that descends low though it might appear easier or the only one. ”

“ At all events and no matter how bright the periods are within the whole course and its genuine origin, their ember often fades when separated from its source, their influence wanes like a fragrance of a sweet-smelling perfume which vaporizes when it is no longer confined in its flask or when the glow of a kindling live-coal faints as it is detached from its brazier. ”

“ Iranian peoples would have remained captives of deception for a long time after they would have wasted their energy, suffered subsequently bitter disappointment and immersed in the crimes of aggression and destruction. Indeed, victory has salvaged the Iranian peoples from all that and rescued the peoples of the world from the domination of Western materialism whose view and way of life would have had the upper hand at the expense of balanced, spiritual principles and the right moral and living aspects for a long time to come. ”

“ Had this victory not been accomplished, God forbid, and had another, different thing been achieved by the stoned Satan's act of strike, materialism, promulgated by the West under the leadership of USA in the Middle East region and perhaps in other places, would have created a horrific situation of destruction caused by the backward condition that is secluded in a lacerated image albeit dressed in religion or in some aspect of it. Faith would have been defeated after being shun by the people's souls and minds as a result of what would have befallen them under the slogans of religion. ”

“ For about eight centuries, development had come to a halt, in fact it had receded incessantly in another direction because the foreign Ottoman ruler, albeit his claims of ruling in the name of Islam, was in reality running the State through a narrow prospect relevant merely to the legacy, apprehensions and aspirations of his nation and people. ”

“ We would like to say to the whole world including the Iranian peoples that the victory won by the Iraqis is a great humane victory because it is a victory of progress over backwardness, of faith and truth over falsification and of construction over destruction. ”

“ When the ruler discovers in himself or in his people a potential energy that can be utilized but he does not possess the faculty of conceiving the better among which the qualifications for construction and rendering the good, he often exploits it in a manner contrary to the good, love, fairness or construction. ”

“ By the will of God, glory be to Him, Baghdad shall remain, just as it has always been, inaccessible to the enemies and guarded by pride and by heedful might, true to humane principles. Its gates shall never be open except to the peoples seeking good relations and friendship and to the good faithful, God willing. ”

“ The phase becomes as though it were, in one way or another, the general traits of the leader or leaders in addition to all that had passed down or desired to be connected with the traits and customs of the previous historical phases.
Hence, it has become manifest to us how and why a leader leading other leaders can transform a nation or people in morals and reality into a state of great ascent, upward and downward, when the leader or leaders are congruent with their peoples through sublime humane principles. ”

“ They take their colours, tokens, level and profundity of influence upon oneself or upon others in the light of the disparity and kind of traits of each people and each nation, their different roles and the kind and level of development with respect to the starting-point of humanity, or the description within the context of its phase. The broader the account and distance between one nation and another is, the more strongly varied and distant are the points of separation. ”

“ Such a man has achieved two triumphs over the side of opposite description and tokens: one victory within the soul derived from one's feeling that man is a living part of a whole rather than a cast-off, acting in such a manner as to satisfy the soul in performing his duty towards the One worshipped alone; and another victory over the enemies when only the impossible conceals them from death. It is not just one victory. ”

“ Therefore, being busy with construction, values and sublime principles together with a balanced view of the social, economic and cultural life is a strong indication of the ruler's or leader's utilization of the potential energy in himself and his intellect, and in the spirit and intellect of his people and nation, and in a civilized and humane direction based on his love for the good instead of evil, construction insof destruction and aggression. ”

“ Accordingly, peoples with a deeply rooted role in civilization are not the same as those with an insignificant one. By the same token, peoples in whose life, history and tasks the humane aspect plays a great and decisive role in adopting a call or calls for the good and conveying a message or messages in compatibility with the level and kind of the relevant models in the course for the betterment of humanity and sublime morals are not the same as those peoples whose main history is confined to a narrow, limited, selfish and local role. ”

“ It does not live on land without a sky nor does it manipulate weakness by clutching verbally to heavenly morals, which have no faith or solid ground. It does not hesitate to use the sword when it turns to be an inevitable way to validate an argument and when the mind fails to convince the one who is guilty of falsehood not to commit an offense of aggression by falsifying his stance. ”

“ We also want to stress the significance of the principles of construction and the leading role of man as a believer in life progress and in boosting love over hatred, exalting the object or objects, means and morals of construction over backwardness and the spirit of destruction and endeavouring to connect the present to its genuine sources of faith and deeply rooted past. ”

“ We would assist others to be guided for what is good as part of our patriotic and national responsibility based on faith, indeed our responsibility and humane relationship whether with Iran or with other nations, out of our constant desire and determination for assistance and initiation so as to build bridges of love and peace, whenever possible or whenever there is a balanced and appropriate opportunity. ”

“ Conversely, climbing up the summit by means of endeavour and sublime morals is recurrent in the history of Iraq and the Arab Nation, indeed, it is quite appropriate for the Nation and Iraq. When both reach the summit, they often stay there for such a time as to be seen or heard by all, near and far. Due to their own traits, they do not hastily roll down the face of the summit, unlike other peoples and nations. ”

“ The destruction and evil instinct would be employed when the mind fails to grasp its wide field, the justifications of the great principles and the interdictions of the sublime morals code. Indeed, the failure of a lofty imagination causes energy to slope downward to where it collides with the lowland. One of the most perilous matters is that those of this kind of fancy and its course misconstrue that they score triumph even when the have been wrecked by the acceleration of their lowermost decline of energy ”

“ Nations and peoples are the brainchildren of their particular and general history. Despite the existing linkage, in one way or another, between the staring point and the final, or any representation in the development of peoples and nations, any phase in history, qualitatively or situationally, cannot be a replica of the one or many representations antecedent in development. ”

“ Zionism and USA would have won through people's recourse to their protection, clutching at a false hope for peace and stability, which they can provide to peoples in the face of the ghoul of backwardness and destruction beside the war drums of sectarianism. ”

“ The difference which has also a profound, influential significance in this or that people is between whether the overwhelming probability of playing the role is attributed to material factors and considerations, life items within their own phase or other factors and attributes and whether their stimulating or reminding models of the role are only models for destruction, causing injury to other peoples and nations, transgressing the right deeply into falsehood vis-à-vis other models that summon the good, love, altruism, the great humanistic role and the endeavour for right and justice. ”

“ No wonder then some have dogfought against Baghdad with hatred and envy and have employed forces, some of which are backward for destruction while others have used their accumulation of malice and narrow, greedy interests to portray to the backward of their kind that their destructive approach is right. ”

“ Yet the simplified style, dear people, is not always capable of expressing the meaning of what we want to state once our statement assumes an intellectual course and sets off in accordance with this description. Furthermore, our problem does not lie within the Iraqi people, but with others, you know. It is with the people who allege that through their aggressivity they can express a thought. Thus, it is inevitable that we deal with the wrong premise of their thought and replace it by a correct one, as we think or believe in. ”

“ Driven by jealousy, envy, feeling of disability and demerits into frantic commotion triggered by the instinct for aggression and destruction, others have sought to sit on ruins, misconceiving them as an uppermost summit. Similarly, selfishness dictates one possibility of taking one general, common direction to interests, which are incompatible with those of another summit and of another description, and by corollary a clash would occur. ”

“ Babylon, Baghdad, Assur, Nineveh, Hatra and Ur were not neutral, in a middle distance between the foot of the mountain and the summit. Thus, when they behold the summit, firmly convinced of the truthfulness and honesty, in addition to other usual requisites, of the leaders, they run fast to it, and occupy it, so they become the uppermost lighthouse in the surrounding, its radiance is visible at long distances, so that many people would be lit and guided, lest they should stray. ”

“ They do not betray or do evil to their country or people; they do not speak ill of their symbols and principles. Therefore, Iran's conduct is unprecedented. Thus we have only to search for a certain aspect of history so as to be rightly guided to its causes and accurate description and to say that any account of this conduct lies squarely within a description contrary to that of the people of Iraq, its system, principles, leaderships and their morals. ”

“ The religious description, brothers, applied to nations and peoples whether these peoples are of Islamic doctrine or affiliated to it or under a description and tokens of other religions, cannot annul the history of the nation before and after conviction or affiliation, nor abolish the influence of their general history when it opposes or contradicts the new doctrine which is in the light of broad promulgation, level of commitment and profundity of its effect, introduces new morals into the history of nations. ”

“ We would see that these traits explain to us the essence of the positive points being fairly recorded for our people and for whoever has caused harm to it in the past or still doing so, whenever the traits which are in common with the past generation yet associated with its history and people are summoned, or on the occasion of the Great Victory Day in which we are delivering our speech, albeit the difference in time between past and present. ”

“ When achieved by any of the above descriptions it either introduces the melancholy of feeling of loneliness into a road shared by no one else or the gloom of despair, which no matter how intense is the feeling of self-content, preserves in this case the sense of defeat in the enemy, thus burning their backs with the lashed of triumph and perhaps the consciences and minds with scars and bruises caused by the triumphant's gun bombardment. ”