Definitions

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  • proper noun A male given name of Arabic usage.
  • proper noun Saddam Hussein, Iraqi politician.

Etymologies

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Arabic صدام (ʂaddām), to continuously confront.

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Examples

  • THAIR HUSSEIN, FORMER SADDAM MIG PILOT: Before we flew for Saddam just an order, a mission that it's not really useful for our people.

    CNN Transcript Feb 27, 2008 2008

  • People dont realize how powerful that picture of SAddam Hussien and Rummy is… if you showed it to this Newt joker and told him.. lets talk about this picture for a moment.. what exactly is it that we were afraid of that made us ally ourselves with mr evil Saddam?

    Think Progress » Gingrich: There Is An ‘Insurgency’ in CT Which Says ‘Can’t We Come Home And Hide?’ 2006

  • If you were carrying out 9 / 11 with the intent of using that event to rationalize the removal of saddam, would you implicate Saddam at all in the attacks?

    Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com 2009

  • If you were carrying out 9 / 11 with the intent of using that event to rationalize the removal of saddam, would you implicate Saddam at all in the attacks?

    Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com 2009

  • If you were carrying out 9 / 11 with the intent of using that event to rationalize the removal of saddam, would you implicate Saddam at all in the attacks? "

    Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com 2009

  • He had taken a hard line about any country that harbored terrorists, and by his definition Saddam was a terrorist.

    Plan of Attack Bob Woodward 2004

  • He had taken a hard line about any country that harbored terrorists, and by his definition Saddam was a terrorist.

    Plan of Attack Bob Woodward 2004

  • RICHARDSON: “We’re [sic] what the American people want: contain Saddam Hussein from going after his neighbors, but also, go after these deadly weapons of anthrax, VX, botulisms, some that are very, very big threats to future generations of children, not just in the Persian Gulf and the Middle East, but around the world, if they get in the hands of terrorists that Saddam is supporting.”

    Think Progress » Condi Throws Stones From Her Glass House 2005

  • RICHARDSON: “We’re [sic] what the American people want: contain Saddam Hussein from going after his neighbors, but also, go after these deadly weapons of anthrax, VX, botulisms, some that are very, very big threats to future generations of children, not just in the Persian Gulf and the Middle East, but around the world, if they get in the hands of terrorists that Saddam is supporting.”

    Think Progress » Phase II Report Being Stonewalled, Senators Charge 2005

  • RICHARDSON: “We’re [sic] what the American people want: contain Saddam Hussein from going after his neighbors, but also, go after these deadly weapons of anthrax, VX, botulisms, some that are very, very big threats to future generations of children, not just in the Persian Gulf and the Middle East, but around the world, if they get in the hands of terrorists that Saddam is supporting.”

    Think Progress » Can Bush Be Trusted Again? 2005

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