Rather, it is through conciliation and compromise that we are building a fair Iraq, a just state for all its peoples.

I must tell you that I am committed, as the president of Iraq, to benchmarks and to do our best to achieve some progress forward for national reconciliation.

Iraq is not occupied, but there are foreign forces on its soil, which is different.

The brutal regime of the dictator fell ... the regime that ruled Iraq for decades, the decades of darkness. The decades that were of tyranny.