Iraq Quotes - Page 26

The administration has a disturbing pattern of behavior when it comes to budgeting not only for the ongoing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan but also for military requirements not directly related to these conflicts.

Russ Feingold

Military, Administration, Budgeting

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Further, by acting decisively in Iraq, the United States has sent very strong signals to other nations that have been or could be terrorist sympathizers.

Jim Gerlach

Strong, Acting, United States

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Iran has interest in seeing that the Shia population of Iraq basically adhere to a line that comes from Iran.

Richard Armitage

Iran, Population, Lines

"Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. July 14, 2003.

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Playing on the streets of Iraq, or in Israel or the Gaza strip, I'd sing angry protest songs against war. People would say, 'Make us clap, make us dance, and laugh and sing.' It really made me think about the importance of happy music.

Michael Franti

Song, War, Thinking

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No one in this body wants to see terrorism and the rule of force prevail in Iraq. Some on the other side say otherwise, but I believe they know better.

Raul Grijalva

Believe, Body, Want

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Well, what I've said is that the war in Iraq will always be clouded by how it began, which was a wrong premise, that there were in fact no weapons of nuclear - weapons of mass destruction.

Robert M. Gates

War, Mass Destruction, Weapons

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I volunteered to deploy to Iraq. I was one of the few soldiers who were not on the mandatory deployment roster - close to 3,000 Hawaii soldiers were.

Tulsi Gabbard

Deployment, Soldier, Hawaii

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Iraq is not about oil.

Bobby Ray Inman

Oil

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In my judgment, based on the work that has been done to this point of the Iraq Survey Group, and in fact, that I reported to you in October, Iraq was in clear violation of the terms of U.N.Resolution 1441.

David Kay

Groups, Done, October

"Transcript: David Kay at Senate hearing". www.cnn.com. January 28, 2004.

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You know, I agree with President Obama that in Iraq and Afghanistan, at some point in time, we have to take the training wheels off and we have to allow those countries to stand on their own two feet.

Josh Mandel

Country, Two, Feet

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It would be immoral to walk away from the consequences of our actions, leaving behind anarchy and civil war in Iraq.

Kenneth Clarke

War, Leaving, Would Be

Kenneth Clarke's speech, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2005.

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Savage, despicable evil. That's what we were fighting in Iraq. That's why a lot of people, myself included, called the enemy 'savages.' There really was no other way to describe what we encountered there.

Chris Kyle

Fighting, Evil, People

Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen, Jim DeFelice (2012). “American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History”, p.8, Harper Collins

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One of the things my service in Iraq did give me was this freedom from fear of failure or any kind of expectations that I had to take a standard path.

Kevin Powers

Giving, Expectations, Path

"Guardian first book award 2012 goes to Kevin Powers" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. November 29, 2012.

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In the years since 9/11, more terrorists have been created through this President's policies than were captured or killed. There weren't any terrorists in Iraq in 2003, but there are now.

Bill Pascrell

Years, President, Terrorist

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The progress in Iraq is still fragile. And it could still be reversed. Iraq still faces innumerable challenges, and they will be evident during what will likely be a difficult process as the newly elected Council of Representatives selects the next prime minister, president, and speaker of the council.

David Petraeus

Challenges, President, Progress

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Although I voted against the initial resolution approving the war in Iraq, I have consistently voted to support our troops with much-needed armor and supplies.

Ed Pastor

War, Support, Troops

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My goal in Baghdad was to facilitate a debate here in the United States on America's policy toward Iraq, a debate that's been sadly lacking.

Scott Ritter

America, Goal, United States

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If you're coming from America to Iraq, then how are you supposed to be objective? I mean, you could pay lip service to being objective, but how are you going to objective when you're embedded with the Marines? The Marines are saving your life every day and they're protecting you.

Shane Smith

Mean, Marine, America

Interview with Spike Jonze, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 26, 2013.

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I actually bought the argument that if we democratized Iraq, we could create a space for venting some of the stuff that's going on in the Middle East in these autocratic regimes that is expressing itself through jihadism, because it has nowhere else to express itself.

Andrew Sullivan

Space, Middle East, Venting

"Andrew Sullivan: Dishing It Out Daily For A Decade". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. October 17, 2010.

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To sum up, the position we took was that since we didn't know the internal situation in Iraq nor Saddam Hussein, that our best bet was to take counsel from the people who did know him and who did deal with him.

Brent Scowcroft

People, Hussein, Situation

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Saddam's ouster will not necessarily lead to the same result, since Iraq lacks democratic traditions. Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections.

Brent Scowcroft

Democracy, Election, Tradition

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Many Sunnis, who are still stuck in the Saddam era mindset and believe Iraq belongs to them, are trying to prevent a new country from developing at all.

Brent Scowcroft

Country, Believe, Trying

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Iraq... has also had contacts with al-Qaida. Their ties may be limited by divergent ideologies, but the two sides' mutual antipathy toward the United States and the Saudi royal family suggests that tactical cooperation between them is possible.

George Tenet

Two Sides, Ties, Divergent

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I'm praying we don't go to war with Iraq. If we do, I may have to go back to work earlier.

Elizabeth Vargas

War, May, Praying

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But the key thing is that Iraq, while it's got very large oil reserves, has marginalized itself as an oil exporter and these days its exports are only about one tenth that of neighboring Saudi Arabia.

Daniel Yergin

Oil, Keys, Arabia

"CNN American Morning with Paula Zahn". www.cnn.com. September 3, 2002.

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