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Even after the United States stepped into the fray, she added, Saddam thought, "Who's America? Who are they? What [do] they think they are? I am Saddam." But when the allies seized Kuwait, she sensed he had been crying, as his eyes appeared to be "with tears. His eye was red, red, red." She said Saddam told her: "'I lose.' I said, 'What?' He said, 'Kuwait.' He said, 'They took Kuwait from me but I will took it again.'"