Iraq Quotes - Page 32

• The enemy [in Iraq] pulls back. We think we're doing well. Well, they pull back. They're not stupid. And then after we leave, you see what happened.

  Donald Trump

  Stupid, Thinking, Enemy

  Source: time.com

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• I don't pretend to be a general or an admiral or anything else, but I just - every time I see - I see President [Barack] Obama get up, "Ladies and gentleman, we are sending 50 people to Iraq," 50.So that's bad in two ways. Number one, it's such a low number that the enemy's saying is that all?And number two, when you think 50, those people now have a target on their back. They wanna find those 50 people and they look for those 50 people.

  Donald Trump

  Thinking, Two, Numbers

  Source: time.com

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• Without you [the military forces], we wouldn't be here. I don't think you've been given the respect that you deserve. I don't think you've been allowed to fight ISIS as an example the way you wanted. I don't think you've been allowed to fight for Iraq the way you've wanted.

  Donald Trump

  Military, Fighting, Thinking

  Source: time.com

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• Iraq has been overrun by ISIS because Hillary Clinton failed to renegotiate, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton failed to renegotiate a status of forces agreement...And so we removed, we removed all of our troops from Iraq and ISIS was able to be conjured up in that vacuum and over run vast areas of Iraq.

  Mike Pence

  Running, Isis, Agreement

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Our process inside the United States government has gotten much better at making sure we touch all possible source of information about a refugee. The interview process has gotten more robust, so we've gotten our act together in that respect. The challenge remains, especially with respect to folks coming from Syria, we're unlikely to have anything in our holdings. That is, with people coming from Iraq, the United States government was there for a very long period of time. We had biometrics, we had source information. We're unlikely to have that kind of picture about someone coming from Syria.

  James Comey

  Government, Long, People

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Unlike Hillary Clinton, who voted for the war without knowing what she was doing, I would not have had our people in Iraq. Iraq was disaster.

  Donald Trump

  War, Knowing, People

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Hillary Clinton has made bad judgment not only on taxes. She's made bad judgments on Libya, on Syria, on Iraq. I mean, her and Obama, whether you like it or not, the way they got out of Iraq, the vacuum they've left, that's why ISIS formed in the first place. They started from that little area, and now they're in 32 different nations, Hillary. Congratulations. Great job.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, Congratulations, Mean

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• In America, every time we take rebels, whether it's in Iraq or anywhere else, we're arming people. And you know what happens? They end up being worse than the people.

  Donald Trump

  America, People, Rebel

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The biggest problem I have with the stupidity of our foreign policy, we have Mosul. They think a lot of the ISIS leaders are in Mosul. So we have announcements coming out of Washington and coming out of Iraq, we will be attacking Mosul in three weeks or four weeks. Well, all of these bad leaders from ISIS are leaving Mosul. Why can't they do it quietly?

  Donald Trump

  Thinking, Isis, Stupidity

  Second presidential debate, www.nytimes.com. October 10, 2016.

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• I hope by the time I am president that we will have pushed ISIS out of Iraq.

  Hillary Clinton

  Isis, President

  "Transcript of the Second Debate". www.nytimes.com. October 10, 2016.

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• I would not have had our troops in Iraq.

  Donald Trump

  Troops, Troops In Iraq, Our Troops

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• I met Cindy [Sheehan] near Crawford, Texas. I went out to personally thank her for waiting patiently by the road in front of George and Laura Bush's ranch for an answer from her President as to why and for what her son and others had been sacrificed in the unlawful invasion and occupation of Iraq.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Son, Texas, Waiting

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• In December of 2002, the late Richard Corliss, a respected movie critic with a long and illustrious career, wrote an embarrassing letter of support for the invasion and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan in the guise of a Time magazine review of Peter Jackson's The Two Towers.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Careers, Two, Long

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• My wife made me watch this documentary about the Iraq War, and there was a really powerful moment where they followed some civilian whose family had been killed. This was 5 or 10 minutes of this woman talking, and it was extremely arresting. You realize how you never hear from the person on the receiving end of a war without a reporter stepping in to compartmentalize the story. Usually they're just a few shots at the end of a news report, wailing and screaming at a funeral.

  Charlie Brooker

  Powerful, War, Talking

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Hillary Clinton gave us ISIS, because her and Obama created this huge vacuum, and a small group came out of that huge vacuum because when - we should never have been in Iraq, but once we were there, we should have never got out the way they wanted to get out.

  Donald Trump

  Isis, Should Have, Vacuums

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• I will not support putting American soldiers into Iraq as an occupying force. I don't think that is in our interest, and I don't think that would be smart to do. In fact, I think that would be a big red flag waving for ISIS to reconstitute itself.

  Hillary Clinton

  Smart, Thinking, Isis

  The third presidential debate between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2016.

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• Iran should write us yet another letter saying thank you very much, because Iran, as I said many years ago, Iran is taking over Iraq, something they've wanted to do forever, but we Americans have made it so easy for them.

  Donald Trump

  Writing, Iran, Years

  The third presidential debate between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2016.

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• We shouldn't have been in Iraq, but HillaryClinton did vote for it. We shouldn't have been in Iraq, but once we were in Iraq, we should have never left the way.

  Donald Trump

  Should Have, Way, Vote

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• Google "Donald Trump Iraq." And you will see the dozens of sources which verify that he was for the invasion of Iraq.

  Hillary Clinton

  Google, Dozen, Invasion

  The third presidential debate between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2016.

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• Iran is taking over Iraq.

  Donald Trump

  Iran

  The third presidential debate between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2016.

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• The amazing thing about Trump is that he is so completely predictable. Hillary Clinton knows that if she teases him about either his wealth, his taxes, the women who are coming after him or his preposterous claims of being against the Iraq war, he cannot resist.

  James Fallows

  War, Wealth, Tease

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• What are the prospects for an Arab state serving a leading role comparable to the role that other states place in other regions? There is no obvious candidate. Saudi Arabia has the money but a relatively small population. Iraq was a great potential leader, as a sizable country with great oil resources and a highly educated population, but it went off in the wrong direction.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Country, Oil, Leader

  Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. 2006.

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• Maybe Iraq will come back and become the dominant power among Arab countries. That seems to me as conceivable.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Country, Seems, Dominant

  Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. 2006.

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• Daesh will not stop at Iraq. It will extend its hands and arms into different parts of the world.

  Ibrahim al-Jaafari

  Hands, Different, World

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Iraq is not only fighting to defend itself, but also to defend all countries of the world, especially as these foreign fighters that are fighting for Daesh, they come from more than 100 countries. So, very humbly, we say that we are defending ourselves and all countries of the civilized world, and we are defending democracy.

  Ibrahim al-Jaafari

  Country, Fighting, Countries Of The World

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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