Iraq Quotes - Page 15

• I'm praying we don't go to war with Iraq. If we do, I may have to go back to work earlier.

  Elizabeth Vargas

  War, May, Praying

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• Throughout the lead-up to the war, CNN worked hard to air all sides of the story. We had a regular segment called Voices of Dissent in which we spent time covering antiwar protests and interviewing those who were opposed to the war with Iraq.

  Jim C. Walton

  War, Voice, Cnn

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• But the key thing is that Iraq, while it's got very large oil reserves, has marginalized itself as an oil exporter and these days its exports are only about one tenth that of neighboring Saudi Arabia.

  Daniel Yergin

  Oil, Keys, Arabia

  "CNN American Morning with Paula Zahn". www.cnn.com. September 3, 2002.

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• Punishing abuse in Iraq should not return the U.S. to Sept. 10, 2001, in the way it fights al Qaeda, while Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants remain at large and continue to plan attacks.

  John Yoo

  Fighting, Abuse, Als

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• U.S. has been trying to encourage Iraq to pass a law that would provide money and training and weapons for a Sunni national guard that could be effective in places like Ramadi, like Mosul

  David Ignatius

  Law, Training, Trying

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• A change of strategy suggests there is a strategy. I don't see a strategy that deals with - that concerns with dealing wit with ISIL overall. There is some sort of strategy for dealing with it in Iraq. I'm not sure there is one in Syria. And Libya is another problem altogether.

  David Ignatius

  Isil, Problem, Strategy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It's very hard to understand just what our strategy is in Syria, frankly, and on Iraq that this is Iraq's war, that the role of the United States is to help Iraq, to arm, train, support, provide air support, but this has to be Iraq's war.

  David Ignatius

  War, Air, Support

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• But the U.S. has to be careful. If our strategy depends on Sunnis doing the fighting to clear Mosul and Ramadi - and, as near as I can tell, that is the strategy - then you have to be careful that Sunnis don't perceive the U.S. to be operating arm in arm with Iran or with Iranian-backed Shiite militias that Abadi - Prime Minister Abadi is using in Iraq, so that, in effect, we're fronting for Iran.

  David Ignatius

  Fighting, Iran, Arms

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I believe, that there is at least de facto cooperation between United States and Iran, at least in Iraq.

  David Ignatius

  Believe, Iran, United States

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The world is a better place because Saddam Hussein does not in Iraq.

  Marco Rubio

  Doe, World, Hussein

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• A stable Iraq at peace with its neighbors will remain elusive until we improve both the security and the economic environment in Iraq.

  Tom Lantos

  Environment, Neighbor, Economic

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• I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11.

  Adam Michnik

  Country, War, Mourning

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• In the lead-up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw, at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence, and irresponsibility; at worst, lying, incompetence, and corruption.

  Anthony Zinni

  War, Lying, Saws

  "Battle Ready (Commander Series)". Book by Anthony Zinni, Tom Clancy and Tony Koltz, www.nbcnews.com. 2004.

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• People are constantly applying double standards. Take the United States, for example. Washington wants the whole world to admire the country for its democracy. Then the government sends out its army, in the name of this democracy, and leaves behind the kind of chaos we see in Iraq.

  Jacob Zuma

  Country, Army, Names

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• The enemy understands a free Iraq will be a major defeat in their ideology of hatred. That's why they're fighting so vociferously.

  George W. Bush

  Fighting, Hatred, Enemy

  Transcript of the first Bush-Kerry Presidential Debate, www.debates.org. September 30, 2004.

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• I saw a poll that said the right track/wrong track in Iraq was better than here in America. It's pretty darn strong. I mean, the people see a better future.

  George W. Bush

  Strong, Mean, America

  A joint press conference of President George W. Bush and Iraqi interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi at the White House, www.foxnews.com. September 23, 2004.

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• Coalition forces have encountered serious violence in some areas of Iraq. Our military commanders report that this violence is being insticated by three groups.

  George W. Bush

  Military, Groups, Three

  President Bush's Press Conference at the White House, www.nytimes.com. April 13, 2004.

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• The White House was so eager to rid itself of Iraq that it was willing to withdraw rather than lock in arrangements that would preserve our influence and interests.

  Leon Panetta

  White, House, Locks

  Leon Panetta, Jim Newton (2014). “Worthy Fights: A Memoir of Leadership in War and Peace”, p.214, Penguin

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• The Iraq war can only be won diplomatically, politically and economically, and the president needs to come to that realization.

  Harry Reid

  War, President, Needs

  "'Give 'em Hooey' Surrenders" by Austin Bay, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 25, 2007.

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• The disagreeable reality for those who believe in human rights is that there are some occasions-and Iraq may be one of them-when war is the only real remedy for regimes that live by terror.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Real, War, Believe

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• President Barack Obama Invokes Iraq War Authorization in Syria

  Bobby Schilling

  War, President, Syria

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• George W. Bush was a very bad president. The Iraq war was a big mistake. The U.S.A. needed a political change. I hoped Barack Obama could be a good president, but I'm disappointed. He hasn't done well.

  Marc Rich

  War, Mistake, Political

  "Glencore IPO Pushes Ex-Fugitive Billionaire Marc Rich Out Of The Shadows" by Clare O'Connor, www.forbes.com. May 23, 2011.

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• No connection between Iraq and the 9/11 catastrophe.

  Richard Ben-Veniste

  Connections, Catastrophe

  "Meet the Press", www.nbcnews.com. June 20, 2004.

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• Were there contacts over time between Iraq and al-Qaeda? Yes, there were efforts made to communicate. We found no evidence of collaboration in any effort to mount any kind of operation against the United States' interests.

  Richard Ben-Veniste

  Effort, Collaboration, United States

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. June 20, 2004.

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• You must know the difference between dissent from the Iraq war and the war on terror and undermining it. And any American that undermines that war, with our soldiers in the field, or undermines the war on terror, with 3,000 dead on 9/11, is a traitor. Everybody got it? Dissent, fine; undermining, you're a traitor. Got it? So, all those clowns over at the liberal radio network, we could incarcerate them immediately. Will you have that done, please? Send over the FBI and just put them in chains, because they, you know, they're undermining everything and they don't care, couldn't care less.

  Bill O'Reilly

  War, Differences, Soldier

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