To avoid a military conflict, Saddam Hussein has no other choice than to leave the country.
The Iraqi people are suffering just as if they were still under Saddam.
The purpose of the UN mechanism, this inspection mechanism, is not to engage in a cat and mouse game with Saddam Hussein and try to find weapons that the Iraqi government is working on concealing.
Every Arab 'republic' has been a republic of fear, but only Saddam Hussein's Iraq surpassed the Assads' Syria in number of victims.
We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction.
Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.
Saddam Hussein wrote the book on human rights violations.
I happen to believe that the preemption school is correct, that the risks of allowing Saddam Hussein to acquire his weapons will only grow with time.
Saddam Hussein's trial would not be public since he could name countries and persons whom he gave money.
Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.
Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power.
Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong.
Once we destroyed the Saddam regime, we knew there was going to be a civil war.
It was Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda who attacked the U.S. on September 11, 2001, not Saddam Hussein and Iraq.
All around the world one heard or read that there was no connection between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda.
I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands.
Saddam has committed many crimes against humanity and against his own people.
In Iraq during the days of Saddam, I had a government minder who followed me everywhere, reported on my activities.
I hope the example of Saddam Hussein will give a lesson to leaders of other countries where human rights are not respected.
In liberating Iraq, we have rid the nation and the rest of the world from the danger of Saddam Hussein.
Saddam is a familiar dictatorial aggressor, with traditional goals for his aggression.
