Bashar al-Assad Quotes
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Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong.
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I am the commander in chief of the United States armed forces, and Iraq is gonna have to ultimately provide for its own security.
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We are not going to abandon Iraq.
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The U.N. is much more than the case of Iraq.
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There was no such thing as Al Qaeda in Iraq, until George Bush and John McCain decided to invade Iraq.
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I actually find in America, there's a slight snobbery about actors who go back and forth between big heavy dramas and popcorn fare. That always intrigues me, because that doesn't exist in the same way in Britain. And I imagine it would be worse. In terms of the sort of class, and the sort of snobby, slightly on the back-foot thing Britain has. But it's much more prevalent in America. I'm really intrigued by it. I don't know why that is. But I'm aiming to break down those barriers by being in a Shakespeare film and a Smurfs film within six months of each other.
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The problems of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq can be solved by political means
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Robin and I had been good friends for nearly 30 years and that friendship survived our policy disagreements over Iraq, ... He was the greatest parliamentarian of his generation and a very fine foreign secretary. I deeply mourn his loss.
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We can't get into a situation of bargaining with terrorists because this would put many more people's lives at risk, not only in Iraq but around the world.
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That is the evidence. We look to the Iranians to desist from anything that they have been involved in the past, and also to use their very considerable influence with Hezbollah to ensure that this continued use of Hezbollah technology stops in Iraq.
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I've never said that troops should be withdrawn. What I've said is, is that we've got to make sure that we secure and execute the rebuilding and reconstruction process effectively and properly, and I don't think we should have an artificial deadline when to do that.
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What we have done, I think, is build a model from a lot of hard lessons in Afghanistan and Iraq but in other places around the world, where we are working with them in an advisory capacity.
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I know the war in Iraq is controversial in the States, but for us in the Middle East it has made a great and significant impact.
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Sectarian politics gets votes in Iraq. But sectarian government fails in Iraq.
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What was said before is not important.
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It is not just the vulgar, premature bawdiness of pro-war triumphalists which I find revolting. It is that they accuse anti-war people of being uncaring about the people of Iraq, and the lack of concern that these proponents of war show for the bodies of the killed and those maimed and injured by their invasion.
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Government-mandated and -subsidized ethanol from corn will go down in history as the "Iraq War" of environmental solutions: ill-considered, costly, and disastrous.
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In Britain, everything is policed except crime.
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In America, there seems to be more focus on the idea that it's important to do things differently. In Britain, it's not an issue.
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Now you have heard the managers' vision ... But I believe their vision to be too dark... I believe it to be a vision more focused on retribution, more designed to achieve partisan ends, ... Our vision, I think, is quite different, but it is not naive. We know the pain the president has caused our society and his family and his friends, but we know, too, how much the president has done for this country.
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Just before consumers stop doing something, they do it with a vengeance.
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And I know one thing more - that the Europe of the future cannot exist without commemorating all those, regardless of their nationality, who were killed at that time with complete contempt and hate, who were tortured to death, starved, gassed, incinerated, and hanged.
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The U.S. and Britain are incapable of controlling all of Iraq.
