Iraq Quotes
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Well, let's assume the world is linear. If we required a certain amount of troops per 25,000 population in the Balkans, if the world is not radically different, something of the same extent is going to be needed in Iraq.
Eric Shinseki -
I look at what the president Barack Obama it doing, it adds up to me. We just have to keep - try to get more support for those people on the ground in Syria and Iraq who have to actually physically take the territory back.
Hillary Clinton
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If military action in Iraq is launched without a new U.N. resolution, Canada will not participate.
Jean Chretien -
The world is safer without Saddam Hussein. Certainly the people of Iraq are better without Saddam.
Jimmy Carter -
I really think Canada should get over to Iraq as quickly as possible. There's a huge need for front-line medical professionals. There's a huge need for policing. And there's a huge need for infrastructure rebuilding.
Paul Martin -
And I think the almost undeviating support by Great Britain for the ill-advised policies of President Bush in Iraq have been a major tragedy for the world.
Jimmy Carter -
Some day he may be the next prime minister of Iraq, so it seems to me you want to start a relationship
Chris Shays -
We are not putting ground troops into Iraq ever again. And we're not putting ground troops into Syria. We're going to defeat ISIS without committing American ground troops.
Hillary Clinton
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I have never been able to let Iraq go. It is a part of me. Even under Saddam Hussein, even despite what the country went through, and despite how violent and tribal it can be, there is still a certain purity to the kindness of the population.
Arwa Damon -
I agree with the president Barack Obama. I've said myself, we will not send American combat troops back to either Syria or Iraq - that is off the table.
Hillary Clinton -
Then when ISIS moved into Iraq, the Sunni Muslims didn’t object to their being there and about a third of the territory in Iraq was abandoned.
Jimmy Carter -
The birth of democracy in Iraq is one of the great positive changes of our era.
Ernest Istook -
At the end of the day, Iraq was a part of the fight against terrorism.
Haider al-Abadi -
Any claim between the U.S. and Iran, any conflict is bad for Iraq.
Haider al-Abadi
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When an army unit returns from service in Iraq or Afghanistan, it barely gets a breather before it begins training for its next deployment.
Hillary Clinton -
In the annals of American blunders, the Bay of Pigs may have been even more feckless, and the invasion of Iraq more costly, but we cannot yet calculate the cost of teaching Iran and others, by our role in the casual overthrow of Moammar Gaddafi, the peril of not having nuclear weapons.
George Will -
Iraq has not been disarmed 100 percent but in terms of what they Iraqis have accomplished there are no meaningful weapons or weapons production capability in Iraq today.
Scott Ritter -
All border crossings in and out of Iraq must be under the exclusive control of the federal state.
Haider al-Abadi -
Frank Capra made a series of films during World War II called 'Why We Fight' that explored America's reasons for entering the war. Today, with our troops engaged in Iraq and elsewhere for reasons far less clear, I think it's crucial to ask the questions: 'Why are we doing what we are doing? What is it doing to others? And what is it doing to us?'
Eugene Jarecki -
To understand a difficult topic like Iraq takes patience and care. Unfortunately, you rarely hear a patient, careful or thoughtful discussion of intelligence these days.
George Tenet
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This war in Iraq is part of a larger effort to remove this terrorist threat from the planet.
Paul Cellucci -
The Iraqi constitution is clear in two articles: one says that Iraq is united, and the second one prevents any legislation or acts that impact its unity even from the regional side.
Haider al-Abadi -
Iraq deals with the United States regardless of who is in the White House.
Haider al-Abadi -
Iraqi oil is sold by Iraq.
Haider al-Abadi