Iraq Quotes

• In Iraq, the public has lost all sense of self; it exists only in the form artificially imparted to it by “its” regime. This was an outcome of statification, party growth, and all the other indices that have been discussed.442 The dissolution of Iraqi identity is the most fundamental explanation for why no connection existed in Baʿthist Iraq between military achievements and extending or withholding political allegiance.

  

  Kanan Makiya
  • Lost
  • Sense
  • Public

• 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
  • Population
  • Iraq
  • Linear

• 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.

  

  Najibullah Quraishi
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Iraq

• 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
  • Kindness
  • Population
  • Violent

• All border crossings in and out of Iraq must be under the exclusive control of the federal state.

  

  Haider al-Abadi
  • Control
  • Border
  • Federal State

• 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
  • Troops
  • Syria
  • President Barack Obama

• Some day he may be the next prime minister of Iraq, so it seems to me you want to start a relationship

  

  Chris Shays
  • Next
  • Someday
  • Prime Minister

• I hope by the time I am president that we will have pushed ISIS out of Iraq.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • President
  • Iraq
  • ISIS

• 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
  • May
  • Iraq
  • Iran

• Iraqi oil is sold by Iraq.

  

  Haider al-Abadi
  • Oil
  • Iraq

• The end of foreign occupation is one of the pre-requisites if we are to witness any progress in our efforts to help Iraq go forward.

  

  Amr Moussa
  • Progress
  • Iraq
  • Occupation

• The birth of democracy in Iraq is one of the great positive changes of our era.

  

  Ernest Istook
  • Democracy
  • Changes
  • Iraq

• 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
  • Films
  • Reasons
  • World War II

• 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.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Challenge
  • Enemy
  • Middle East

• 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
  • Constitution
  • Iraq
  • Articles

• 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
  • Weapons
  • Iraq

• Iraq has a tremendous amount of history.

  

  Scott Ritter
  • History
  • Iraq

• 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
  • Service
  • Army
  • Afghanistan

• The world is safer without Saddam Hussein. Certainly the people of Iraq are better without Saddam.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • World
  • Iraq
  • Saddam Hussein

• Iraq deals with the United States regardless of who is in the White House.

  

  Haider al-Abadi
  • United States
  • Deals
  • White House

• Any claim between the U.S. and Iran, any conflict is bad for Iraq.

  

  Haider al-Abadi
  • Conflict
  • U.S.
  • Iran

• 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
  • Patience
  • Discussion
  • Iraq

• 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
  • Iraq
  • ISIS
  • Sunni Muslims

• This war in Iraq is part of a larger effort to remove this terrorist threat from the planet.

  

  Paul Cellucci
  • War
  • Planet
  • Iraq

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