Iraq Quotes - Page 22

• If the United States marches into Iraq without the backing of the United Nations, that will be done entirely without the backing of the American people.

  Richard Gere

  People, United States, Done

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I guess what surprised me the most was the discrepancy in casualties: Iraq, one hundred fifty thousand casualties, USA: seventy-nine! Let's go over those numbers again, they're a little baffling at first: Iraq: 150,000, USA: 79. Does that mean we could have won with only 80 guys there? Just one guy in a ticker-tape parade, "I did it! Hey!"

  Bill Hicks

  Mean, Usa, Numbers

  "Bill Hicks: Relentless". Documentary, Comedy, 1992.

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• One of the principles that we operate on in this country is that leaders are held accountable. The simple truth is that we went into Iraq on the basis of some intuition, some fear, and some exaggerated rhetoric and some very, very scanty evidence.

  Wesley Clark

  Country, Simple, Leader

  "Gen. Wesley Clark: Iraq war based on 'misjudgment'". Interview with Aaron Brown, www.cnn.com. August 15, 2003.

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• Shamu and I have arrived safely in Costa Rica. He was stopped by airport security because he carries enough artillery in his pants pockets to construct a sawed-off shotgun. Evidently, he though we were headed to Iraq.

  Chelsea Handler

  Airports, Pockets, Costa Rica

  Chelsea Handler (2009). “Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea”, p.246, Simon and Schuster

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• Governor Dean has no policy on Iraq evidently, except 'no.' 'No' is not a policy.

  John F. Kerry

  Dean, Policy, Governors

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• There is a much cheaper way, less complicated way to bring Iraq and Saddam Hussein to its knees: it is simply to send the Bush economic team over there and let them run the country.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Running, Team

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• Were I to stop oil production, we`d have to import it from Iraq and from Caracas, Venezuela or from North Dakota where the environmental standards are much lower, on trains that have already proven themselves unsafe, or by more ships that are causing significant pollution in the world. It`s just really dumb.

  Jerry Brown

  Oil, Dumb, Environmental

  "All In with Chris Hayes", www.msnbc.com. December 9, 2015.

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• The war in Iraq is still going on. The British are helping. Mexico wants to help, but they need a ride over there.

  Felipe Esparza

  War, Mexico, Want

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• Would it be ironic if we had to go back to Iraq to rid it of the Al Quaeda that wasn't there before we got there to rid it of Al Queda?

  Gary Gulman

  Ironic, Als, Ifs

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• How can rogue terrorists in Iraq detonate bombs? They're all too busy flying kites with their children! Hasn't [Katrina vanden Heuvel (Queen of the May at the fun-loving Nation magazine)] seen Fahrenheit 9/11?

  Ann Coulter

  Queens, Children, Fun

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• Astonishingly, American taxpayers now will be forced to finance a multi-billion dollar jobs program in Iraq. Suddenly the war is about jobs. We export our manufacturing jobs to Asia, and now we plan to export our welfare jobs to Iraq, all at the expense of the poor and the middle class here at home.

  Ron Paul

  Jobs, War, Home

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• The Syrian border town of Qa'im was the main gateway Islamic radicals used to go to Iraq. Syria became the passageway for extremists from Egypt, Libya, Afghanistan, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and other Muslim nations to fight a jihad against American forces in Iraq.

  Richard Engel

  Islamic, Fighting, Egypt

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• Having defeated and then occupied Iraq, democratizing the country should not be too tall an order for the world's sole superpower.

  William Kristol

  Country, Order, World

  "A conversation with Lawrence Kaplan and Bill Kristol on Iraq". Interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. February 24, 2003.

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• If our commanders on the ground say we need more troops, I will send them. But our commanders tell me they have the number of troops they need to do their job. Sending more Americans would undermine our strategy of encouraging Iraqis to take the lead in this fight. And sending more Americans would suggest that we intend to stay forever, when we are, in fact, working for the day when Iraq can defend itself and we can leave.

  George W. Bush

  Jobs, Fighting, Numbers

  President Bush's Fort Bragg Speech, North Carolina, www.nbcnews.com. 2005.

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• The likely economic effects [of the war in Iraq] would be relatively small... Under every plausible scenario, the negative effect will be quite small relative to the economic benefits.

  Lawrence B. Lindsey

  War, Negative, Would Be

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• Iraq has tremendous resources that belong to the Iraqi people. And so there are a variety of means that Iraq has to be able to shoulder much of the burden for ther own reconstruction.

  Ari Fleischer

  Mean, People, Able

  "Promises, promises: the true cost of freedom for the people". www.independent.co.uk. June 26, 2004.

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• It won't take weeks... Our military machine will crush Iraq in a matter of days and there's no question that it will.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Crush, Military, Machines

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• The Iraq fight itself is probably going to go very, very fast. The shooting should be over within just a very few days from when it starts.

  David Frum

  Fighting, Shooting, Should

  "Iraq Retrospective: Read The Quotes That Sent Us To War". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2008.

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• You cannot believe in peace at home and not believe in international peace. A war with Iraq will increase anti-American sentiment, create more terrorists, and drain as much as 200 billion taxpayer dollars, which should be invested in human development here in America.

  Coretta Scott King

  War, Believe, Home

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• The United States, as all you know, did not come to Iraq for oil, not to occupy. We came here only to help.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Oil, United States, Helping

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• It is not just the vulgar, premature bawdiness of pro-war triumphalists which I find revolting. It is that they accuse anti-war people of being uncaring about the people of Iraq, and the lack of concern that these proponents of war show for the bodies of the killed and those maimed and injured by their invasion.

  Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

  War, People, Body

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• The insurgents are Baathists and Sunnis in Iraq who have as their goal a separate and distinct one of toppling the government that is there and creating their own.

  Ike Skelton

  Government, Creating, Goal

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• My dad was working abroad, in Iraq, and he was a doctor. We used to go and visit him, in Baghdad, off and on. For the first ten years of my life, we used to go backwards and forwards to Baghdad, so that was quite amazing. I spent a lot of time traveling around the Middle East.

  Andy Serkis

  Dad, Doctors, Years

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. January 27, 2003.

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• The way in which the USA and Great Britain delivered Iraq to the Iraqis, the way and means that this played out, that is the endgame.

  Neil Young

  Mean, Usa, Way

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• Between what is going on in Iraq and Mumia being locked up unjustly, things going on in Israel, Palestine, we don't really have anyone right now like Gandhi. We don't have anyone like Martin Luther King or Malcolm X anymore. It's really a reference to a vision of hope, like someone like Gandhi.

  Vinnie Paz

  Kings, Israel, Vision

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