Iraq Quotes - Page 25

• President Obama is sending troops back to Iraq. He said, 'Don't worry, we should not be there any longer than a Kardashian marriage.'

  David Letterman

  Worry, President, Troops

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• President Obama is sending a couple hundred troops to Iraq. We spent six years trying to figure a way to get out of Iraq. And now we're back. But this time there is an exit strategy. Barack Obama has an exit strategy. In 2016, he's gone.

  David Letterman

  Couple, Years, Trying

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• The irony is that what was supposed to be a great vulnerability of Hillary Clinton , which the Iraq war vote which she has acknowledged was a terrible mistake, has lent an aura of strength in a funny way.

  Joe Conason

  War, Mistake, Auras

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The problem is that Iran has been identified as a dangerous enemy, and the longer the media forwards that proposition - and the media is guilty, just as it was in the Iraq war - then the easier it becomes for Americans to accept that we might just have to resort to military force to remove any Iranian threat.

  Hooman Majd

  Military, War, Media

  "Interview with Hooman Majd: US-Iran Relations in the Age of the Ayatollah". Interview with Jon Letman, mronline.org. October 4, 2010.

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• Wars always evolve over time, don't they? Iraq/Afghanistan is different than Vietnam, and Vietnam was different than Korea, and Korea was different than World War One, and so on. Some things remain the same, of course - one side fighting another over ideology or a patch of ground - but there are some aspects of combat life which differ radically than their predecessors.

  Dave Abrams

  War, Fighting, Korea

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There is no more "front" and "rear" where Fobbit-types would go to hide out in safer locations. In Iraq and Afghanistan, you engaged in a theater of operations that's 360 degrees at all times.

  Dave Abrams

  Location, Degrees, Theater

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The modern wars are also omnipresent in our electronic media - to be cynical about it, we now have 24 hours of non-stop bloodshed available to us. The internet and real-time media reporting were integrated into daily life in Iraq.

  Dave Abrams

  Real, War, Media

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's disingenous for me to say that I wasn't trying to write a moral novel. By its very nature as a novel about the Iraq War, Fobbit steps into the political conversation. There's no way to avoid that. I can appreciate that readers are probably going to line up on one side of the novel or the other. I hope they go to those polar extremes, actually.

  Dave Abrams

  War, Writing, Appreciate

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Marine and Army women have deployed with infantry units in Iraq and Afghanistan in what's called female engagement teams, going into villages, talking with women and sometimes coming under fire.

  Renee Montagne

  Team, Army, Marine

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I feel like I partly came to writing through being in college during the start of the Iraq war, and knowing that those issues mattered lot to me, and wanting to go see for myself.

  Sarah Stillman

  War, Writing, College

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I can't imagine how Afghanistan's fall isn't going to be ten times faster than Iraq's.

  Eliza Griswold

  Fall, Imagine, Faster

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think the big turning moment was when I joined the student political action club and started studying nonviolent civil disobedience in response to the Iraq War. The first anti-Bush protest in Atlanta was the first protest that I'd ever been to, and I helped organize the school walkout when I was a junior. It was a really solidifying moment.

  Cecily McMillan

  War, School, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The Iran-Iraq war began the same year that I went to primary school, at the age of six.

  Hassan Blasim

  War, School, Iran

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In trying to imagine this world, I kept coming back to Michel Aflaq. He's a Christian Arab, a Syrian, who ends up finding his home in Iraq and is buried there - I was stunned to see his tomb is right smack down in the Green Zone.

  Elliott Colla

  Christian, Home, Trying

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The corruption in Iraq has nothing to do with ideas - it has to do with the regime and institutional structures and power.

  Elliott Colla

  Ideas, Corruption, Structure

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We like to look out on the world and see ourselves, so we have many, many novels, memoirs, and short stories in Iraq that are largely about Americans in Iraq, doing what Americans do.

  Elliott Colla

  Looks, Stories, World

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There's no violence worse than the violence of Iraq. For the last fifty years Iraq has been living a nightmare of violence and terror. It's been a horrible experience and people in Iraq will need a lot of time and work to get over the disastrous effects. But first we have to think about how to stop the violence, so that the bloodshed stops. In spite of everything, on the personal level I don't easily lose hope.

  Hassan Blasim

  Thinking, Years, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We in Iraq have not descended from another planet. Just as people in many other countries have gotten over the tragedy of war, Iraq will get over its ordeal.

  Hassan Blasim

  Country, War, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I didn't start publishing literary texts until I had left Iraq. At the Academy [of Cinematic Arts] I was busy with short films.

  Hassan Blasim

  Art, Busy, Film

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It's ridiculous and painful to use the Arabic of an Iraqi poet who lived centuries ago to describe what we in Iraq are suffering today.

  Hassan Blasim

  Suffering, Use, Today

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• How can one talk in a classical language about a child who's torn apart in an explosion in the market near his school? People in Iraq don't talk about their joys, their problems, and the destruction of the country in literary diction.

  Hassan Blasim

  Country, Children, School

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• While I was studying film at the Academy, the problems started. I wasn't a political activist directly in the time of Saddam [Hussein], because the dictator was so cruel and brutal that no one could criticize or complain. I felt futile and empty. The only solution in Iraq was to run away.

  Hassan Blasim

  Running, Political, Complaining

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I studied at the Academy during the years of economic sanctions. Life was almost dead because the sanctions imposed on Iraq by the civilized world were so strict.

  Hassan Blasim

  Years, Economic Sanctions, World

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• From 2001 to 2012 at least 6,410 women were murdered by an intimate partner using a gun. That`s more than the number of U.S. troops killed in action in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  War, Gun, Numbers

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The students often like to talk about movies that they feel are Orientalist like 300 or Babel. They talk a lot about the possibility of U.S. aggression against Iran and the Iranian hostages being held by the U.S. in Iraq.

  Mohammad Marandi

  Iran, Students, Possibility

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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