Saddam Hussein Quotes
By God, we will make the fire eat up half of Isreal if it tries to do anything against Iraq.
"Hussein Threatens to 'Burn Half of Israel'." The Washington Post, 3 Apr. 1990, p. A1.
The Mormons have been the victims of more religious persecution and violence than any other religion in America. They became aggressive in defending themselves as this quotation illustrates.
It is easy for those in London to wish for missiles and other weapons to be launched at others. If an Iranian missile were to hit Israel, he would celebrate. Then when the Israeli retaliation strike hits Iran, he will be among the first to call for a cease fire and plead for intervention lest there be bloodshed in Iran. Somehow the Middle East has a disproportionate number of people who are terribly enthused about attacking others without considering the consequence of the retaliation and counter attack.
The threat was to use nuclear weapons on Iraq if Saddam Hussein fired any missiles at Israel armed with Chemical Weapons which Iraq had at the time. Saddam fired some missiles but all had conventional explosives which did little damage. However, Israel was not even involved in the Gulf War. The threat obviously worked.
Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti was an Iraqi politician who served as the fifth President of Iraq from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003. A leading member of the revolutionary Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, and later, the Baghdad-based Ba'ath Party and its regional organization, the Iraqi Ba'ath Party—which espoused Ba'athism, a mix of Arab nationalism and Arab socialism—Saddam played a key role in the 1968 coup (later referred to as the 17 July Revolution) that brought the party to power in Iraq.