Little progress was made in the solution of outstanding issues... The long list of proscribed items unaccounted for and as such resulting in unresolved disarmament issues was not shortened either by the inspections or by Iraqi declarations and documentation.
Remember the valiant Iraqi peasant and how he shot down an American Apache with an old weapon.
Today we accomplished the final amendments of the new constitution and the final version has been presented to the United Nations to print it and to be distributed to the Iraqi people,
Exile means surrender. This nation, the Iraqi nation, is not going to surrender to the blackmail and to the threats of the Americans.
They will commit suicide on the walls of Baghdad and other Iraqi cities,
I am not going to answer to this so-called court, out of respect for the truth and the will of the Iraqi people. I've said what I've said, and I'm not guilty.