Iraq Quotes

• 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

• The PMF should be loyal only to Iraq, not to anyone else: loyal to Iraqi official institutions, the commander in chief in the country, rather than political parties or any other force outside or inside Iraq.

  

  Haider al-Abadi
  • Force
  • Parties
  • PMF

• 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

• 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
  • Force
  • Collapse

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

  

  Ayad Allawi
  • Struggle
  • Iraq
  • Succeeding

• 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

• 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 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

• The news that a third British citizen has died from his wounds from the attack in Iraq is terrible -- terrible for his family and for his community -- and it is something which all of us condemn unreservedly.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Family
  • Community
  • Died

• I've never said that troops should be withdrawn.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

• 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

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

  

  Ahmed Chalabi
  • Government
  • Vote
  • Failing

• 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

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

  

  Baron Vaughn
  • Place
  • Iraq
  • Alphabet

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Baathism in Iraq equals Nazism in Germany.

  

  Ahmed Chalabi
  • Iraq
  • Germany
  • Nazism

• 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 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 the long run, the loans will help Iraq make its own way to a vibrant, free and prosperous future.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Long
  • Help
  • Future

• 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

• The problems of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq can be solved by political means

  

  Igor Ivanov
  • Political
  • Problems
  • Iraq

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