Iraq famous quotes

At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That's the only way to defeat terrorism.
-- Abdallah II

#Iraq #The End Of The Day #Want

The world [is] now seeing might is right.
-- Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

#Iraq #Usa #World

I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11.
-- Adam Michnik

#Country #War #Iraq

The war in Iraq has been extremely divisive here at home, and has also divided the world community.
-- Adam Schiff

#War #Home #Iraq

It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein.
-- Adam Schiff

#Wisdom #War #Iraq

Whether we kept a certain number of troops there or pulled out completely, if we can't get the Maliki government to include a large segment of its population in its security forces and protection, then the small amount of forces that we would have left there might have slowed this day, but they wouldn't have prevented it altogether.
-- Adam Schiff

#Military #Government #Iraq

To handle the economy and services in a country like Iraq requires delegation of authority and the choice of competent people.
-- Ahmed Chalabi

#Country #Iraq #People

You know the most important thing the Americans did for Iraq apart from liberating the country from Saddam was helping Iraq reduce its debt. The United States worked very hard to reduce 80 percent of Iraqi debt.
-- Ahmed Chalabi

#Country #Iraq #Important

Are Iraqis ready to carry the responsibility for their country? Is Iraq ready to be its own master? We want to be the masters of ourselves and to carry our responsibilities in this region.
-- Ahmed Chalabi

#Country #Responsibility #Iraq

Baathism in Iraq equals Nazism in Germany.
-- Ahmed Chalabi

#Iraq #Germany #Nazism

Iraq will not allow any action on its soil that could harm the U.S. We don't want any action from our soil to target our neighbors.
-- Ahmed Chalabi

#Iraq #Target #Want

The Americans stabbed in the back the forces that worked to bring about the collapse of Saddam's regime and wanted to keep Iraq a sovereign country.
-- Ahmed Chalabi

#Country #Iraq #Sovereign

Sectarian politics gets votes in Iraq. But sectarian government fails in Iraq.
-- Ahmed Chalabi

#Government #Iraq #Vote

I call on the international community to be fair to the Iraqi people. My position is that we respect international resolutions but in return demand justice and accountability for those who stole Iraq's money.
-- Ahmed Chalabi

#Iraq #People #Justice

I strongly believe that a federal structure based on administrative and geographic lines with strong powers for the federated states will be the best solution for Iraq.
-- Ahmed Chalabi

#Strong #Believe #Iraq

The view that we hold in Iraq now is this - that democracy is associated with elections. I believe that elections are possible.
-- Ahmed Chalabi

#Believe #Views #Iraq

What was said before is not important.
-- Ahmed Chalabi

#Iraq #Important #Said

Democracy in Iraq will be an example that the Arab population will look to with great interest. And some Arab governments are concerned about democracy in Iraq, not because Iraq will be an aggressive state against them, but rather by the example that will be set by a successful federal democratic state in Iraq.
-- Ahmed Chalabi

#Successful #Iraq #Government

I have no idea what the U.S. intends to do further there and what would be the reaction of the Iraqi people. I only know that the sole option is to leave Iraq to the Iraqi people.
-- Akbar

#Ideas #Iraq #People

I think the elections have gone well, although there is so much insecurity in Iraq. So far during the counting of ballots, there has not been a significant complaint. We have to wait to see what the outcome of the counting is.
-- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

#Thinking #Iraq #Waiting

As someone who's spent time with our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on USO tours and met wounded warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda, I feel a deep obligation to the men and women who have risked life and limb on our behalf.
-- Al Franken

#Warrior #Men #Iraq

We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country.
-- Al Gore

#Country #Iraq #Secret

Iraq does pose a serious threat to the stability of the Persian Gulf and we should organize an international coalition to eliminate his access to weapons of mass destruction. Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to completely deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power.
-- Al Gore

#Wmd #Iraq #Long

Even if we give first priority to the destruction of terrorist networks, and even if we succeed, there are still governments that could bring us great harm. And there is a clear case that one of these governments in particular represents a virulent threat in a class by itself: Iraq. As far as I am concerned, a final reckoning with that government should be on the table.
-- Al Gore

#Class #Iraq #Government

Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power.
-- Al Gore

#Iraq #Long #Weapons

The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior. We cannot look at the Latino community and preach 'one language.' No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.
-- Al Sharpton

#Fighting #Iraq #America

As a painter, I realized that what we see is just manifestation of unseen power. Since then [1958 Coup in Iraq], reality started to take another form in my mind. Hence, I was aware of deception of our senses.
-- Ala Bashir

#Reality #Iraq #Deception

I still believe that the Democrats have it right about health care, education, the war in Iraq and, yes the war on terror.
-- Alan Colmes

#War #Believe #Iraq

U.S. military action in Iraq: It sure didn't work out well last time. Let's not make that mistake again.
-- Alan Grayson

#Military #Mistake #Iraq

And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein's 'weapons of mass destruction,' American and British authorities were also concerned about violence in an area that harbors a resource indispensable for the functioning of the word economy. ... I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
-- Alan Greenspan

#War #Oil #Iraq

The Iraq War is largely about oil.
-- Alan Greenspan

#War #Oil #Iraq

I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
-- Alan Greenspan

#War #Oil #Iraq

Iraq failed for the same reasons that all conservative public policy efforts fail. Refusing to acknowledge the importance of government while relying on it to achieve your objectives causes the same kind of chaos in foreign policy that it does in matters closer to home.
-- Alan Wolfe

#Home #Government #Iraq

Syria is a terrorist state by any definition and is so classified by the State Department. I happen to think Iran is too. Iraq, Iran, Syria, they're all involved.
-- Alexander Haig

#Thinking #Iran #Iraq

The Americans are stuck in Iraq and have no way out. They are like a wolf whose tail has been caught in a trap.
-- Ali Khamenei

#Iraq #Tails #Way

War is a dead end, literally. And, what is more, we simply can't afford it. Not morally, and not financially. How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?
-- Alice Walker

#Country #War #Iraq

The end of foreign occupation is one of the pre-requisites if we are to witness any progress in our efforts to help Iraq go forward.
-- Amr Moussa

#Iraq #Effort #Progress

But for the media to name their coverage of the 2003 invasion of Iraq the same as what the Pentagon calls it—everyday seeing 'Operation Iraqi Freedom'—you have to ask: 'If this were state controlled media, how would it be any different?'
-- Amy Goodman

#Media #Names #Iraq

So it is fair to ask, why not address the threat of climate change when it is still possible? Asad Rehman, of the international environmental group Friends of the Earth, who was in New York for the climate march, told me, “If we can find the trillions [of dollars] we’re finding for conflict whether there’s been the invasion in Iraq or Afghanistan or now the conflict in Syria, then we can find the kind of money that’s required for the transformation that will deliver clean, renewable energy.”
-- Amy Goodman

#New York #Iraq #Environmental

Rejection would be a disaster for the U.S., but ratification alone will not end our problems in Iraq. Even if the constitution is ratified, the insurgents are not going to lay down their arms.
-- Andrew Bacevich

#Iraq #Rejection #Would Be

Victory is the only option. And we will be victorious in Iraq.
-- Andrew Card

#Iraq #Victory

Victory is the most important aspect in Iraq, because victory in Iraq will help us have victory in the War on Terror.
-- Andrew Card

#War #Iraq #Victory

Basic services such as electricity have never been worse and the economy of Arab Iraq is in ruins.
-- Andrew Gilligan

#Iraq #Ruins #Economy

I actually bought the argument that if we democratized Iraq, we could create a space for venting some of the stuff that's going on in the Middle East in these autocratic regimes that is expressing itself through jihadism, because it has nowhere else to express itself.
-- Andrew Sullivan

#Iraq #Space #Middle East

Weirdly, the people complaining about the healthcare website not working after three weeks were quiet about the Iraq war not working after eight years.
-- Andy Borowitz

#War #Iraq #Eight

We need the UN, to deal with the threats to our common security from nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, not only in the case of Iraq. They must be tackled by the international community together, by strengthening conventions, treaties and agreements.
-- Anna Lindh

#Agreement #Iraq #Community

In a case like Iraq the UN has again shown what important role it plays as the guarantor for protecting international peace and stability in the global political structure.
-- Anna Lindh

#Play #Iraq #Political

If we had allowed things to drift, everything would have gone from bad to worse. Nasser would have become a kind of Moslem Mussolini, and our friends in Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and even Iran would gradually have been brought down. His efforts would have spread westwards, and Libya and North Africa would have been brought under his control.
-- Anthony Eden

#Iran #Iraq #Effort

Kids coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan deserve to come back to 21st century medical care.
-- Anthony Principi

#Kids #Iraq #Care

I think it's (Israeli pressure for invading Iraq) the worst kept secret in Washington, everybody I talked to in Washington has known and fully knows what their agenda was and what they were trying to do; because I mentioned the Neo-Conservatives who describe themselves as Neo-Conservatives, I was called, Anti-Semitic.
-- Anthony Zinni

#Thinking #Iraq #Secret

In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse, lying, incompetence and corruption.
-- Anthony Zinni

#War #Lying #Iraq

I think you have always heard, and you continue to hear from officials, a measure of high confidence that, indeed, the weapons of mass destruction will be found.
-- Ari Fleischer

#Thinking #Iraq #Invasion

We have high confidence that they have weapons of mass destruction. That is what this war was about and it is about.
-- Ari Fleischer

#War #Iraq #Weapons

Most of the State of the Union will not be about Iraq. Most of the State of the Union will be about improving America's economy and providing greater access to health care for millions of American people, including senior citizens
-- Ari Fleischer

#Senior #Iraq #America

The president of the United States and the secretary of defense would not assert as plainly and bluntly as they have that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction if it was not true, and if they did not have a solid basis for saying it.
-- Ari Fleischer

#Iraq #President #United States

I think the burden is on those people who think he didn't have weapons of mass destruction to tell the world where they are.
-- Ari Fleischer

#Stupid #Thinking #Iraq

If he declares he has none, then we will know that Saddam Hussein is once again...
-- Ari Fleischer

#Iraq #Hussein

We know for a fact that there are weapons there.
-- Ari Fleischer

#Iraq #Facts #Weapons

Well, there is no question that we have evidence and information that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, biological and chemical particularly . . . all this will be made clear in the course of the operation, for whatever duration it takes.
-- Ari Fleischer

#Iraq #Weapons #Duration

Iran, Libya and Syria are irresponsible states, which must be disarmed of weapons of mass destruction, and a successful American move in Iraq as a model will make that easier to achieve.
-- Ariel Sharon

#Moving #Successful #Iraq

We are not utilizing the Iraqi oil for U.S. purposes. We are not asking that the Iraqi oil be used to pay our military expenses. We are asking only that the Iraqi oil be used to rebuild Iraq - that is, to rebuild Iraq for the Iraqi people.
-- Arlen Specter

#Military #Oil #Iraq

The liberation of Iraq was part of a broader effort to seriously confront the greatest threat to world security: rogue states capable of obtaining long range weapons of mass destruction.
-- Armstrong Williams

#Iraq #Long #Effort

The invasion of Iraq will surely go down in history as one of the most cowardly wars ever fought. It was a war in which a band of rich nations, armed with enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world several times over, rounded on a poor nation, falsely accused it of having nuclear weapons, used the United Nations to force it to disarm, then invaded it, occupied it, and are now in the process of selling it.
-- Arundhati Roy

#War #Iraq #World

The true credit for our safety and security goes to our men and women who are serving in places like Iraq and Afghanistan in the global war on terrorism.
-- Asa Hutchinson

#War #Men #Iraq

When I decided to stay in Iraq, I decided to take the fear out of my body and put it into a freezer.
-- Asne Seierstad

#Iraq #Body

We are succeeding in Iraq. Thank you, America.
-- Ayad Allawi

#Thank You #Iraq #America

Iraq has slipped enough toward dangerous paths that may endanger the country if we don't realize that the solution ... lies is the concept of national unity
-- Ayad Allawi

#Country #Lying #Iraq

We are succeeding in Iraq. It's a tough struggle with setbacks, but we are succeeding.
-- Ayad Allawi

#Struggle #Iraq #Succeed

Americans will not allow any Islamic regime to reach the position of governance except if it is an accomplice to the Americans, just like what is happening right now in Iraq.
-- Ayman al-Zawahiri

#Islamic #Iraq #Regimes

"Bush, you must admit that you have been defeated in Iraq and that you are being defeated in Afghanistan and that you will soon be defeated in Palestine, with the help and strength of God."
-- Ayman al-Zawahiri

#God #Iraq #Helping

If I was comforting the Islam nation for its crisis of Pakistan's earthquake, I today congratulate it and bless the Islamic victory in Iraq.
-- Ayman al-Zawahiri

#Islamic #Earthquakes #Iraq

Now let me be clear - I suffer no illusions about Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal man. A ruthless man. A man who butchers his own people to secure his own power. He has repeatedly defied UN resolutions, thwarted UN inspection teams, developed chemical and biological weapons, and coveted nuclear capacity. He's a bad guy. The world, and the Iraqi people, would be better off without him.
-- Barack Obama

#Team #Men #Iraq

Isil poses a threat to the people of Iraq and Syria, and the broader Middle East - including American citizens, personnel and facilities. If left unchecked, these terrorists could pose a growing threat beyond that region, including to the United States.
-- Barack Obama

#Safe Haven #Iraq #People

We will send an additional 475 service members to Iraq. As I have said before, these American forces will not have a combat mission - we will not get dragged into another ground war in Iraq. But they are needed to support Iraqi and Kurdish forces with training, intelligence and equipment.
-- Barack Obama

#War #Safe Haven #Iraq

Iraq was a war of choice, not necessity.
-- Barbara Boxer

#War #Iraq #Choices

Voting against the resolution authorizing the use of military force in Iraq was one of my proudest moments as a senator. It is long past time to close this tragic chapter in American history.
-- Barbara Boxer

#Military #Past #Iraq

I agree with Pres. Barack Obama, Iraqis need a political solution. No war in Iraq!
-- Barbara Lee

#Military #War #Iraq

America must continue diplomacy, even as we continue the war, to expand the coalition of the willing to share the burden of war and to share the responsibility and the economic cost of rebuilding Iraq
-- Barbara Mikulski

#War #Responsibility #Iraq

I should have voted for the first Iraq war. George Bush did that one very well. I had been skeptical. I was afraid that George Bush was going to treat the first Iraq war the way his son treated the second.
-- Barney Frank

#War #Son #Iraq

The problem with the war in Iraq is not so much the intelligence as the stupidity.
-- Barney Frank

#War #Iraq #Stupidity

It is even more so when it comes to Iraq, which is a large Arab country with scientific, material, and human resources and is able to accomplish, at the least, what Lebanon accomplished, and more.
-- Bashar al-Assad

#Country #Iraq #Able

Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending their land courageously.
-- Bashar al-Assad

#Equality #Land #Iraq

The U.S. and Britain are incapable of controlling all of Iraq.
-- Bashar al-Assad

#Iraq #Britain

The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.
-- Bashar al-Assad

#Iraq #Facts #Disaster

I understand, probably more than anyone, what a threat Iraq was and the people that threatened Iraq was. I was beneath the towers on September 11th when they fell. And I -- again, I just -- I want to thank the President for the honor in allowing me to go there, because I lost 23 people. I wear this -- this memorial band for the 23 I lost.
-- Bernard Kerik

#Iraq #People #Memorial

George W. Bush and Tony Blair had to convince the world that Saddam Hussein represented an imminent threat. Tony Blair lied when he claimed that Iraq could launch a chemical or biological attack within 45 minutes.
-- Bianca Jagger

#Iraq #World #Hussein

They are having a panel look into the intelligence failures in Iraq. It is a seven-person panel and it will include Senator John McCain, but the findings from this panel will not be issued until after the election. President Bush says the commission can go off and report back in a year, you know, the same way it works in the Texas National Guard.
-- Bill Maher

#Texas #Years #Iraq

In the years since 9/11, more terrorists have been created through this President's policies than were captured or killed. There weren't any terrorists in Iraq in 2003, but there are now.
-- Bill Pascrell

#Years #Iraq #President

The President, in talking about freedom and democracy, is sparking a wave of very positive democratic sentiment that might help us override both Islamic fundamentalism that has formed in that region, and also some of the hatred for our policies of invading Iraq.
-- Bill Richardson

#Islamic #Talking #Iraq

Iraq may get peace and stability through restoring it's sovereignty under participation of all Iraqi factions and sectarian groups, who must rebuild a new democratic, free and independent Iraq.
-- Bill Vaughan

#Independent #Iraq #Groups

Gen. Tommy Franks told me the war was being compromised as specialized personnel and equipment were being shifted from Afghanistan to prepare for the war in Iraq - a war more than a year away.
-- Bob Graham

#War #Years #Iraq

The soldiers in Iraq are fighting, suffering and dying . . . anonymously and pointlessly, while the rest of us are free to buckle ourselves into the family vehicle and head off to the malls and shop.
-- Bob Herbert

#Fighting #Iraq #Soldier

There isn't any air power in the world that can take care of the problem of sectarian divisions.
-- Bob Menendez

#Military #Iraq #Air

I would love to see the French spending money to restore Iraq.
-- Bob Schaffer

#Iraq #Spending #Spending Money

The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families.
-- Bob Schieffer

#War #Iraq #Usual

Iraq is not about oil.
-- Bobby Ray Inman

#Oil #Iraq

President Barack Obama Invokes Iraq War Authorization in Syria
-- Bobby Schilling

#War #Iraq #President

It seems to me that the Iraqis laid down a lot of the arms that we gave to them. So that doesn't seem to be the solution.
-- Brad Wenstrup

#Military #Iraq #Arms

To sum up, the position we took was that since we didn't know the internal situation in Iraq nor Saddam Hussein, that our best bet was to take counsel from the people who did know him and who did deal with him.
-- Brent Scowcroft

#Iraq #People #Hussein

If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would.
-- Brent Scowcroft

#Iraq #Chaos #Feels