The Iraqis loved their people, their civilization and their glorious history. They loved their nation and its great principles a love surpassed by none before. And because they were born free, they loved the right of every nation in humanity to be free, unyielding to the might of tyranny and exploitation of greed.
— 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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