Saddam Hussein

+++ (born 1937) +++ President of Iraq from 1979 - 2003 and Prime Minister of Iraq from 1979 - 1991 and 1994 - 2003

• "Of the lessons also gained from the history of mankind is the fact that greed and arrogance, when combined, lead the oppressor to do injustice not only to others, but to himself as well; once this combination of greed and arrogance has misled him into a sense of undefeatable capability and power, as he takes the road of falsehood and aggression, committing the most heinous acts and proceeding from that sick imagination, to fall down the precipice and then into hell."
  • Source: comment made by Saddam Hussein on the on the occasion of the 14th Anniversary of the end of the

• "One of the lessons of recent and distant history is that all empires and bearers of the coffin of evil, whenever they mobilized their evil against the Arab nation, or against the Muslim world, they were themselves buried in their own coffin, with their sick dreams and their arrogance and greed, under Arab and Islamic soil; or they returned to die on the land from which they had proceeded to perpetrate aggression. This has been the case with all empires preceeding our present time."
  • Source: comment made by Saddam Hussein on the on the occasion of the 14th Anniversary of the end of the