"Leave Saddam in power? So that he would be free to continue killing, free to invade his neighbors, so that he would be free to — I am sorry — develop nuclear weapons? No."
— Barham Salih

January 1, 1970

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As quoted in "Regrets Only?" (7 October 2007), by Dexter Filkins, The New York Times Magazine