“I'm honored to shake the hand of a brave Iraqi citizen who had his hand cut off by Saddam Hussein.”
George W. Bush
“If military action is required, our objective this time should be not to annoy Saddam Hussein, not to inconvenience Saddam Hussein, but to remove Saddam Hussein,”
Dan Quayle
“CBS news anchor Dan Rather has interviewed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. When asked what it was like to talk to a crazy man, Saddam said, 'It's not so bad.'”
Conan O'Brien
“Scores of Iraqi exiles met in London to discuss ways to overthrow Saddam Hussein in a grand gathering dubbed the 'Iraqi Military Alliance Meeting.' Of course, these people are no longer Iraqi, they have no military, and there is no alliance. But they did have a meeting.”
Jon Stewart
“I am an opponent of Saddam Hussein, but an opponent also, of the sanctions that have killed a million Iraqi children and an opponent of the United States' apparent desire to plunge the Middle East into a new and devastating war.”
George Galloway
“Everybody knows what [Iraqi President] Saddam Hussein should be doing, and if he isn't doing it and shows no indication he's doing it, I think we can present a strong enough argument for the second resolution that we put down,”
Colin Powell
“I can't psychoanalyze why (Iraqi President) Saddam Hussein does what he does, but I can tell you this, ... It's smart for him to stop attacking our planes because he was losing a lot of equipment. He was losing radars. He was losing missiles. And he was losing air defense guns. And he was losing command and control facilities. So, if he wants to hold on to his equipment, he should stop attacking the patrols.”
Ken Bacon