Iraq Quotes - Page 7

• Syria is a terrorist state by any definition and is so classified by the State Department. I happen to think Iran is too. Iraq, Iran, Syria, they're all involved.

  Alexander Haig

  Thinking, Iran, Definitions

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• Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Funny, Travel, Texas

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.287, Vintage

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• We have defeated Saddam Hussein and Iraq. The good news is Iraq is ours, and the bad news is Iraq is ours.

  David Letterman

  News, Hussein, Comedy

  "The First Year Of The Iraq War, As Told Through Late Night TV Jokes" by Nick Robins-Early, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2018.

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• The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history; and he failed to build a true international coalition.

  Nancy Pelosi

  War, President, Doctrine

  "Bush: America Has 'Great Responsibilities'". www.foxnews.com. January 21, 2004.

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• We would like UN resolutions to be enforced, including on Iraq.

  Jean-Pierre Raffarin

  Resolution, Including

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• As I think through the issue of funding the rebuilding of Iraq, I think about the analogy of a bankruptcy proceeding. There is no doubt that Iraq as a country is bankrupt.

  Arlen Specter

  Country, Thinking, Issues

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• The effort to blur the lines between Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib reflects a deep misunderstanding about the different legal regimes that apply to Iraq and the war against al Qaeda.

  John Yoo

  War, Effort, Different

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• I believe that the government that governs best is a government that governs least, and by these standards we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq.

  Stephen Colbert

  Hilarious, Believe, Government

  "Two Years Ago: When Stephen Colbert Mocked Bush — To His Face" by Greg Mitchell, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 26, 2008.

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• The only way the French are going in is if we tell them we found truffles in Iraq.

  Dennis Miller

  Funny, Humorous, Way

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• Wars such as those which have occurred in Iraq only allow hatred, violence and terror to proliferate

  Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

  War, Hatred, Violence

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• With a small fraction of the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the Iraq war, the US and Australia could ensure every starving, sunken-eyed child on the planet could be well fed, have clean water and sanitation and a local school to go to.

  Bob Brown

  Money, Children, War

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• We need to get our sons and daughters home and their responsibility for the security of Iraq needs to be assumed by Iraqis who will stand up and toe the line for their countries.

  Jay Inslee

  Daughter, Mother, Country

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• If we're successful in Iraq ... we will have struck a major blow right at the heart of the base, if you will, the geographic base of the terrorists who have had us under assault now for many years, but most especially on 9/11.

  Dick Cheney

  War, Heart, Successful

  "Meet the Press" with Mr. Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. September 7, 2003.

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• The war in Iraq has as much to do with terrorism as the administration has to do with compassion.

  Julian Bond

  War, Compassion, Administration

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• John Howard's credibility on the entire Iraq war has been torpedoed by John Howard's own intelligence agency.

  Kevin Rudd

  War, Agency, Credibility

  "Howard under fire over Iraq". edition.cnn.com. July 17, 2003.

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• Right now, Iraq is expanding and improving facilities that were used for the production of biological weapons.

  George W. Bush

  Mass Destruction, Wmd, Weapons

  Speech to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 12 September 2002, New York, NY

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• We have also discovered through intelligence that Iraq has a growing fleet of manned and unmanned aerial vehicles that could be used to disperse chemical or biological weapons across broad areas.

  George W. Bush

  Growing, Weapons, Chemicals

  Address to the Nation on the Threat of Iraq, delivered 7 October 2002, Cincinnati Union Terminal, Cincinnati, Ohio

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• Victory is the only option. And we will be victorious in Iraq.

  Andrew Card

  Victory

  "Andrew Card Responds to Bob Woodward's Claim of Confused, Divided Bush Administration". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. October 2, 2006.

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• The U.S. must renounce any U.S. interest in constructing permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq.

  Peter DeFazio

  Military, Renounce, Interest

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• What is at stake is how to answer the potential threat Iraq represents with the risk of proliferation of WMD. Baghdad's regime did use such weapons in the past. Today, a number of evidences may lead to think that, over the past four years, in the absence of international inspectors, this country has continued armament programs.

  Jacques Chirac

  Country, Thinking, Past

  "Interview with French President Jacques Chirac". L'Orient-Le Jour Interview, www.globalpolicy.org. October 16, 2002.

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• The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world

  Carl Levin

  World, Credibility, Massive

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• Iraq has a new opportunity to comply with all these relevant resolutions of the Security Council.

  Kofi Annan

  Opportunity, Resolution, Relevant

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

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• American POWs from the last Iraq war, who were held prisoner and tortured by Iraq, are now being prevented by our government from suing the Iraqis who tortured them.

  Dana Rohrabacher

  War, Government, Suing

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• I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency.

  Dick Cheney

  War, Stupid, Thinking

  www.foxnews.com. June 20, 2005.

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• If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program.

  William J. Clinton

  Patriotic, Wmd, Mass Destruction

  "Text Of Clinton Statement On Iraq", www.cnn.com. February 17, 1998.

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