Jalal Talabani Quotes - Page 2

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• All I wanted was to be a university teacher.

  Jalal Talabani

  Teacher, Wanted, University

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• The Kurdish people welcome the no-fly zone protection, contrary to the Iraqi regime that is against it.

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  People, Welcome, Protection

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• We are trying to persuade all the Iraqi opposition to come breathe freedom in Iraq and use liberated Kurdistan as a base for our common struggle.

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  Struggle, Iraq, Trying

  "Kurds Organizing Anti-Hussein Forces - Sidebar For a Quiet Colonel, A Moving Role as Santa Claus". Boston Globe, October 25, 1992.

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

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  Ethnicity, Different, Matter

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• We must provide all kinds of freedom, personal and economic, to all Iraqis. I will fight for that.

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  Fighting, Kind, Economic

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• To move any regime you need to have co-operation and co-ordination between Kurds, Shia Arabs, Sunni Arabs, the people and the army. Until we have this we cannot change the regime.

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  Change, Moving, Army

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• A greater international role is important to lift some of the burden from the shoulders of the United States.

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  Important, United States, Roles

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• A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale.

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  Courage, Military, Army

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• It is the American air protection, which safeguards the freedom enjoyed by the Kurdish region. It guarantees the cultural, health and civilizational progress made in Iraqi Kurdistan.

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  Air, Progress, Guarantees

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• There is a kind of sympathy with the Americans who are looked upon as liberators.

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  Kind, Liberators

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• Iraq is not going to starve to death because of the absence of assistance from Arab countries.

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  Country, Iraq, Absence

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• Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession.

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  Compromise, Capitulation, Concessions

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• No for the return of Saddam's Baath party. This is against the constitution and those who are negotiating to bring them back are violating the constitution.

  Jalal Talabani

  Party, Return, Constitution

  "Iraq President Rejects Study Group's Report". Los Angeles Times, December 10, 2006.

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• We are not denying that Turkey has a right to defend itself from extremists but some of its actions are not serving any democratic purpose in Turkey or in Iraq. This will not benefit the relations between the two countries.

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  Country, Turkeys, Two

  "Turkey Targets Northern Iraq Again". www.aljazeera.com. April 22, 2008.

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• Rather, it is through conciliation and compromise that we are building a fair Iraq, a just state for all its peoples.

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  Iraq, Compromise, Building

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• It was an agreement between Saddam (Hussein) and the shah of Iran and not between Iraq and Iran.

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  Agreement, Iran, Iraq

  "Iran, Iraq Deal 'Still Stands'". www.news24.com. December 26, 2007.

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