460 Quotes About Iraq

  • Author Scott Ritter
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    My personal missteps - how many Americans have died as a result of that? None. Other than my family, how many victims were there? None. And yet, in refusing to engage in a responsible debate about Iraq, how many Americans died? Thousands. And America seems to have no problem with that.

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  • Author Al Sharpton
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    We are seeing people from Iraq being treated better than people from New Orleans.

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  • Author Andrew Sullivan
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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.

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  • Author Asne Seierstad
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    When I decided to stay in Iraq, I decided to take the fear out of my body and put it into a freezer.

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  • Author Brent Scowcroft
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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.

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  • Author Brent Scowcroft
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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.

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