Iraq Quotes
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Our Afghanistan main problem is education. Over 90 percent of our population is uneducated. So what can you expect? The terrorists come from Syria, Iraq, Pakistan, saying the Quran says this, Quran says that, and the Afghans believe that because they speak Arabic, they think they know the language of Quran, and they know Islam better than us, let's follow them. So they simply follow them.
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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.
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Our challenge is much more pervasive than it would be if we were just facing one enemy in one place. Instead there is the Middle East, Iraq, North Korea, Iran. There's a relatively long list that we believe are linked to the al Qaeda network in the Philippines, in Indonesia and in Yemen and other places. That makes it very clear that this is a global network.
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A lot of (Kyle's) stories when he was back home in Texas, a lot of his own personal opinions about what he was doing in Iraq, how he viewed Iraqis. Some of what people have described as his racist tendencies towards Iraqis and Muslims when he was going on some of these, you know, killing sprees in Iraq on assignment. So I think there are issues... When he was involved in his - on assignments in terms of what he was doing. A lot of the description that has come out from his book and some of the terminology that he has used, people have described as racist.
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Iraq has a tremendous amount of history.
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I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq.
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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.
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If military action in Iraq is launched without a new U.N. resolution, Canada will not participate.
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The world is safer without Saddam Hussein. Certainly the people of Iraq are better without Saddam.
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The birth of democracy in Iraq is one of the great positive changes of our era.
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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.
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All border crossings in and out of Iraq must be under the exclusive control of the federal state.
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At the end of the day, Iraq was a part of the fight against terrorism.
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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.
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Iraqi oil is sold by Iraq.
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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.
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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.
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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?'
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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.
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Any claim between the U.S. and Iran, any conflict is bad for Iraq.
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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.
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Iraq deals with the United States regardless of who is in the White House.
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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.
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This war in Iraq is part of a larger effort to remove this terrorist threat from the planet.
