Quotes of Iraqi - somelinesforyou

“ I voted 'yes' and I urge all Iraqis, no matter their different ethnicities and religions... to vote 'yes' to the constitution. ”

- Jalal Talabani

“ I read this morning that Saddam Hussein also said the love that the Iraqis have for him is so much greater than anything Americans feel for their President because he's been loved for 35 years, he says, the whole 35 years. ”

- Diane Sawyer

“ The Iraqis have had three years to do such things, three years without inspections, and throughout that period, they have claimed that they have no weapons of mass destruction. If that is the truth, why not have inspectors come back and look and see and prove to the world that you don't have any of those weapons? ”

- Richard Butler

“ After a brilliant offensive campaign to destroy the Iraqi military forces, we have settled into a very dismal and dangerous occupation. ”

- Jack Reed

“ We favor resolving the issue would be a mistake with the most serious consequences, leading to casualties and the destabilization of the international situation as a whole. ”

- Vladimir Putin

“ Allowing the U.N. into Iraq will demonstrate to the Iraqis that the international community as a whole is committed to bringing stability and safety to their country. ”

- Jay Rockefeller

“ After that we need a government with all parties, with Allawi, and our brother Sunnis. We insist all Iraqis have a role. ”

- Jalal Talabani

“ All Iraqis will have the right to participate in the government and to ask for their own demands, and this will help to reshape Iraq on a base of national unity. ”

- Jalal Talabani

“ And the Iraqi people are liberated from the worst kind of dictatorship. Now they are enjoying their democratic rights, all kinds of freedoms, a free press. ”

- Jalal Talabani

“ I believe that we are about to face a new strategy of the neighboring countries, especially by the brothers who support Iraq and the Iraqi people. ”

- Jalal Talabani

“ I think the Iraqi Liberation Act, is useful, very important, it's for the first time assuring Iraqi people that America wants to end dictatorship and replace it with a democratic system. ”

- Jalal Talabani

“ Iraq has regained its independence and held democratic elections for the first time in its history, in order to elect a National Iraqi committee. ”

- Jalal Talabani

“ It is this regime that started a war of genocide against the Kurdish people, then started an unjust war against our dear neighbour Iran which has often helped the Iraqi people at times of hardship. ”

- Jalal Talabani

“ On the other hand, we as Iraqi Kurds, we envision our interests within a unified democratic Iraq, in which we contribute to the government in Baghdad. ”

- Jalal Talabani

“ We in the Iraqi opposition have a common stand that the opposition forces, assisted by regional and international states including the United States, must undertake comprehensive democratic changes. ”

- Jalal Talabani

“ The elections in Iraq are a victory for freedom and the Iraqi people, and a blow to the transnational network of terrorists who have tried to prevent this day from happening. ”

- James Talent

“ Iraqi fighters in Umm Qasr are giving the hordes of American and Brtish mercenaries the taste of definite death. We have drawn them into a quagmire and they will never get out of it. ”

- Mohammed Saeed al Sahaf

“ Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them. ”

- Alain de Botton

“ I think the Iraqi people have shown extraordinary patience and courage in the last few months. They have really put a political system on the way to success, to a real democracy here. ”

- Paul Bremer

“ If the Iraqi regime is able to produce, buy or steal an amount of highly enriched uranium a little larger than a single softball, it could have a nuclear weapon in less than a year. ”

- George W. Bush

“ The resolution approved today presents the Iraqi regime with a test - a final test. ”

- George W. Bush

“ If Iraqi disarmament were a five-lap race, we would be three quarters of the way around the fifth and final lap. ”

- Richard Butler

“ Our ability to turn over control to a peaceful and sovereign Iraqi government is an integral part of the overall war on terror. ”

- Elizabeth Dole

“ The people of Iraq realize that a stable, successful, democratic Iraq can only come about if average Iraqis are willing to sacrifice to build it. ”

- John Ensign

“ If the President's looking for another salesman to help him with this tax package, I got a candidate, that old Iraqi information minister. He knows how to sell a fraud. ”

- Al Hunt

“ We've killed a million Iraqis since the start of the Gulf war - mostly by blocking humanitarian aid. ”

- Woody Harrelson

“ The Pentagon still has not given a name to the Iraqi war. Somehow 'Operation Re-elect Bush' doesn't seem to be popular. ”

- Jay Leno

“ Yesterday the Iraqis and U.S. troops pulled down a giant statue of Saddam Hussein. They pull it down and it lands right on top of Geraldo. ”

- David Letterman

“ While Americans let something as minor as rain impede us from voting, Iraqis snubbed the possibility of death or injury, bravely voting, and sending America a big 'thank you' by their actions. ”

- Trent Lott

“ On a daily basis, we are seeing not just attacks against coalition forces and security forces of Iraq, we are seeing a situation in many places which is beyond chaotic to the point which the Iraqi people are quickly beginning to assume that we not only are occupying but we are inept occupiers. ”

- Jack Reed
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