Iraq faced hate with love, weakness with strength, despair with hope, cowardice with courage, dishonour and treachery with honour and loyalty and truth of the honourable stand.
— Saddam Hussein Contemporary

Iraqi dictator

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2001

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Philosophical

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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Saddam_speech_January_17,_2001

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