Iraq Quotes - Page 33

• Everything that happens in Iraq affects countries outside.

  Patrick Cockburn

  Country, Happens

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• A defeat for ISIS in Iraq will be defeat for ISIS in Syria.

  Patrick Cockburn

  Isis, Defeat, Syria

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• There's a lot of expectation in the Middle East that post-Obama there will be a sort of tougher U.S. line on Assad, there will be more intervention and so forth. But I don't know if that's going to be fulfilled. If there is more intervention, then I think it's going to go the same way as these other interventions that we've seen in Iraq, we've seen, to a degree, in Syria, we've seen in Libya, you know, that they do really badly. They make bad situations worse.

  Patrick Cockburn

  Thinking, Expectations, Middle East

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I really see the U.S. staggering under the burden of three blows. One is 9/11 and the threat of terrorism, which is still huge in Syria, Iraq, and elsewhere. The second is the failed 2003 war in Iraq, which cost so much and ruined America's credibility in the eyes of so many. Obama has repaired it to some extent, but those scars are deep. And then, thirdly, banks failed, the whole real estate market had the carpet pulled out from under it.

  Chris Alexander

  Real, War, Eye

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• One of my favourite contemporary fiction writers is a Texan, Ben Fountain. His extraordinary novel, Billy Lynn's Long Half-Time Walk, all takes place within the half-time show at a Dallas Cowboys football game. No one has better summed up the American appetite for spectacle, the link between sports and politics, and the absolute madness of George W. Bush's Iraq War.

  Adam Hochschild

  Sports, Football, War

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Well, you know, once again, Donald [Trump] is implying that he didn't support the invasion of Iraq. I said it was a mistake.

  Hillary Clinton

  Mistake, Support, Invasion

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• I've been to Iraq three times. I've been to Afghanistan, I've been quite a few places, and I want to tell you something, these kids, they're the best we've got. They're the best Americans, they're the most loyal Americans we've got. And we owe them when they come back.

  Charlie Daniels

  Kids, Three, Loyal

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• Military technologies such as Drones, SWAT vehicles and machine-gun-equipped armored trucks once used exclusively in high-intensity war zones such as Iraq and Afghanistan are now being supplied to police departments across the nation and not surprisingly the increase in such weapons is matched by training local police in war zone tactics and strategies.

  Henry Giroux

  Military, War, Gun

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• My earliest memory of architecture, I was perhaps 6 or 7 years old, was of my aunt building a house in mosul in the north of iraq. The architect was a close friend of my father's and he used to come to our house with the drawings and models. I remember seeing the model in our living room and I think it triggered something, as I was completely intrigued by it.

  Zaha Hadid

  Memories, Father, Aunt

  Source: www.designboom.com

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• I was blessed to go abroad and bring Americans home from jail in Syria, and Iraq, and Cuba, and Yugoslavia, and Liberia, those are high moments of my life.

  Jesse Jackson

  Blessed, Home, Yugoslavia

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• [The Yellow Birds] is based on a novel written by Kevin Powers, who is an Iraq War vet. I play a soldier who promises my friend's mother I'm going to keep him alive. But when we go overseas to Iraq, he gets killed. It's about what happened to him, my reckoning and dealing with that as I return home from the war.

  Alden Ehrenreich

  Mother, War, Home

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• [Hillary Clinton] is the one who raised her hand for the war in Iraq and I'm the one who has been fighting it.

  Donald Trump

  War, Fighting, Hands

  Source: townhall.com

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• I'm the one who didn't want to go into Iraq.

  Donald Trump

  Want

  Source: townhall.com

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• There was this moment in 2003 when I was asked to do a fundraiser for someone who was speaking out against the Iraq war when nobody was. I said, "I will do a fundraiser for that guy." And then my friend John Hall, from the band Orleans...He ran for Congress in my district and won. I did a bunch of fundraisers for him.

  Dar Williams

  War, Guy, Band

  Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. November 3, 2016.

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• I think the key anecdote in the book is when Colin [Powell] and I were discussing Iraq. Colin was upstairs in the Treaty Room, in the residence. And he talks about his concerns about the use of military in Iraq. And I said I felt the same concerns, but it might be that we have to use it. In which case, he said, "I support you."

  George W. Bush

  Military, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.aarp.org

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• Just like we did in Japan, in South Korea. Just like is happening in Iraq. Laura [Bush] and I feel very strongly that if the United States were to leave.

  George W. Bush

  Japan, Korea, United States

  Source: www.aarp.org

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• Take like, say, Obama, he's called "liberal" and he's praised for his "principled objection to the Iraq war". What was his "principled objection"? He says it was a "strategic blunder," like Nazi generals after Stalingrad.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Nazi, Stalingrad

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• Donald Trump has no credibility to criticize me or my record or anything that I have done. If he had spent a minute in the deserts of Afghanistan or in the deserts of Iraq, I might listen to what he has to say.

  John R. Allen

  Desert, Done, Records

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I think we've, again, got to be extremely careful; otherwise we'll misunderstand what's going on in Iraq and in Syria today. Of course, you can't say that those of us who removed Saddam in 2003 bear no responsibility for the situation in 2015.

  Tony Blair

  Responsibility, Thinking, Today

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Today, Iraq is Harvard for terrorism.

  Donald Trump

  Today, Terrorism, Harvard

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• You want to be a terrorist, you go to Iraq. It's like Harvard.

  Donald Trump

  Want, Harvard, Terrorist

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• There has, indeed, been very substantial progress in Iraq over the past year - violence is down by 80 percent, civilian deaths by about the same, and so on.

  David Petraeus

  Past, Years, Progress

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• US Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker and I have repeatedly sought to emphasize that the progress in Iraq is fragile and also, possibly, reversible.

  David Petraeus

  Progress, Ambassadors, Fragile

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I am neither a pessimist nor an optimist. I am a realist, and the reality in Iraq is that it has been very hard and it continues to be hard.

  David Petraeus

  Reality, Realist, Pessimist

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Al-Qaida in particular remains dangerous, and there [in Iraq] is some residual militia and special group presence. There are still between 20 and 30 attacks per day, still periodic car bombs and still loss of innocent civilians.

  David Petraeus

  Loss, Car, Special

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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