Iraq Quotes

• 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.

  

  Ehud Olmert
  • Great
  • War
  • Middle East

• What has ISIS done to the women in the cities they have conquered? Direct enslavement, humiliation and turning women into concubines to be bought and sold. This was something nobody expected to see in Iraq.

  

  Yanar Mohammed
  • Women
  • Done
  • Cities

• I've never said that troops should be withdrawn.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.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Thinking
  • Iraq
  • Should Have

• The conclusion is now inescapable that Iraq is in material breach of Resolution 1441, ... But, I also say this: That war is not inevitable.

  

  Jack Straw
  • War
  • Conclusion
  • Resolution

• Because no matter how much money we spend there [in Iraq], as long as the people there see this money as... as assistance that is unwelcome, as long as they continue to be humiliated in their own country by us... I mean, the future looked bleak, and the future after that was in fact very bleak.

  

  Yaroslav Trofimov
  • People
  • Long
  • Country

• We will consider any new resolutions that support the weapons inspectors' work. But we will not support any resolutions that directly or indirectly authorize using force against Iraq

  

  Igor Ivanov
  • Work
  • Support
  • Consider

• Well, you know, once again, Donald Trump is implying that he didn't support the invasion of Iraq. I said it was a mistake.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Donald Trump
  • Iraq
  • Invasion

• I don't like what's going on in Iraq, naturally. I'm part of a large majority of people who don't, but I do not know the whole story. I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it's hard for me to discern. I don't like what it's doing to the world.

  

  Al Pacino
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• I've said consistently that I always reserve the right, in conjunction with a broader international effort, to prevent genocide or any wholesale slaughter than might happen inside of Iraq or anyplace else.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Effort
  • Might
  • Iraq

• George W. Bush was a very bad president. The Iraq war was a big mistake. The U.S.A. needed a political change. I hoped Barack Obama could be a good president, but I'm disappointed. He hasn't done well.

  

  Marc Rich
  • Good
  • Done
  • War

• The alphabet was invented in Iraq, so it's a cool place.

  

  Baron Vaughn
  • Place
  • Iraq
  • Alphabet

• 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
  • Government
  • Policy
  • Iraq

• Before 2003, none of us knew which part of the country was Sunni and which part was Shi'a. This was something new to Iraq and we are reaping the results at this point. Women's wellbeing has paid the price.

  

  Yanar Mohammed
  • Women
  • Country
  • Something New

• The new update of 2014-2015 is, of course, the attack of ISIS. But this is rooted in recent history. It is the direct result of all the politics that came into Iraq with the occupation.

  

  Yanar Mohammed
  • History
  • Occupation
  • ISIS

• There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. But he still says so. There was no link between Saddam Hussein and al Qaida. But he still says so. And thus, gripping firmly these figments of his own imagination, Mr. Cheney lives on, in defiance, and spreads - around him and before him - darkness, like some contagion of fear. They are never wrong, and they never regret - admirable in a French torch singer, cataclysmic in an American leader.

  

  Keith Olbermann
  • American
  • Fear
  • Imagination

• To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq, you're going to get a sense of what the hell's going on there. Boy, you'll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Up
  • Boy
  • Flying

• I think there is no divide today between the U.S. and Europe as far as the main objectives of Iraq.

  

  Javier Solana
  • I Think
  • Europe
  • Objectives

• In Iraq, we did have dictators, we did have times of war but it never reached the point where one person, or a group, would be attacking another group and would be enslaving all the women of that group.

  

  Yanar Mohammed
  • Women
  • War
  • Groups

• We don't have this huge footprint, we are less likely to be targeted as, you know, occupiers [in Afghanistan and Iraq].

  

  Barack Obama
  • Iraq
  • Afghanistan
  • Footprint

• Sectarian politics gets votes in Iraq. But sectarian government fails in Iraq.

  

  Ahmed Chalabi
  • Government
  • Vote
  • Failing

• Long before 9/11 and the war in Iraq, a lot of people hated the United States and the West. But what the Iraqi war seems to have done, at least in... I mean, I'm just reporting what I see from the people on the ground, is that it has silenced many pro-American forces in the Muslim world.

  

  Yaroslav Trofimov
  • People
  • World
  • Long

• Iraq is a small but very proud nation.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Proud
  • Nations
  • Iraq

• What was said before is not important.

  

  Ahmed Chalabi
  • Important
  • Said
  • Iraq

• who should give a clear answer to the question of whether Iraq has weapons of mass destruction or not.

  

  Igor Ivanov
  • Question
  • Answer
  • Iraq

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