As quoted in "Kassem's Corner", Time (July 21, 1961).

I don't want to be the joke of the world, and I don't want to be thought of as another Hitler swallowing up people.

— Abd al-Karim Qasim

What It Means

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Abd al-Karim Qasim

About Abd al-Karim Qasim

Abd al-Karim Qasim (21 November 1914 – 9 February 1963) was the Prime Minister of Iraq from 1958 to 1963.