Quotes About Iraq

The Canadian government continues to say they will not help us if we go to war with Iraq. However, the prime minister of Canada said he'd like to help, but he's pretty sure that last time he checked, Canada had no army.

You would have thought that after 9/11 the president would have finished the job in Afghanistan, and kept the focus on capturing Bin Laden and his al-Qaeda deputies, but he and his team gave top priority to their original plan to invade Iraq.

The once all-powerful ruler of Iraq was found in a hole, and now sits in a prison cell.

What's always got me is the fact that when people talked on the telly about Iraq, before Afghanistan kicked off, you'd get only these public-school-type army officers talking about what was going on out there. I kept thinking, 'Why don't we get the true voice of the squaddie? Why don't we hear from the lads on the battlefield?'

The debacle of the early years in Iraq has reinforced the realist dictum, disparaged by idealists in the 1990s, that the legacies of geography, history, and culture really do set limits on what can be accomplished in any given place.

Los iraquíes querían el final de nuestra presencia así como del régimen de Sadam. Querían controlar su propio país y su propio petróleo. Los sirios querían recuperar el Golán. Los palestinos querían un Estado, aunque consistiera en menos del 22 por ciento del protectorado de Palestina, no un muro de seis metros y ocupación.

En los años siguientes, los dirigentes estadounidenses y británicos negarían su responsabilidad en el multitudinario levantamiento iraquí que alentaron. En el norte de Iraq, decenas de miles de kurdos ya se habían sublevado contra sus opresores y —olvidando las traiciones de los estadounidenses— esperaban con ansia la ayuda de los aliados.

No daban tantas explicaciones sobre las bajas iraquíes. El 14 de febrero, Kelly dijo que pensaba que «la cifra es muy elevada por el bombardeo constante». El 28 de febrero, los saudíes hablaban de unos 100.000 muertos iraquíes, mientras que un antiguo analista militar francés, el coronel Jean-Louis Dufour, calculaba que los muertos iraquíes ascendían a 15.000.4 Schwarzkopf hablo sólo de «una cifra muy, muy alta».

Aunque cada vez más iraquíes, como el hombre de Ramadi, afirmaban que antes de la captura de Sadam no se unirían a la resistencia contra la ocupación estadounidense por miedo a que—si los estadounidenses se retiraban—el dictador volviera al poder; bien, el motivo de ese temor había sido eliminado. La pesadilla había terminado; y la pesadilla estaba a punto de empezar. Tanto para los iraquíes como para nosotros.

26 de enero pregunté a nuestros lectores de The Independent qué teníamos pensado hacer cuando los iraquíes exigieran nuestra retirada de su país. «Puesto que estaremos ocupando un país extranjero. Estaremos ocupando Iraq igual que Israel ocupa Gaza y Cisjordania. Y cuando Sadam no esté, Osama bin Laden tendrá vía libre para exigir la liberación de Iraq como otro de sus objetivos.

gobierno kuwaití se salió con la suya. En cuestión de meses deportó a más de 200.000 palestinos. Otros les seguirían más tarde. La única diferencia era que muchos de ellos viajaron al norte, hacia Iraq, en autobuses de la Cruz Roja que de verdad había fletado dicha organización humanitaria.

Hacia fines de abril de 1992, las instalaciones de armamento nuclear de Al Atheer habían sido destruidas y el búnker utilizado para las pruebas se había sepultado con cemento, un proceso que se llevo a cabo con la ayuda forzada de centenares de trabajadores iraquíes.

The completion of the Iraqi cabinet with the appointment of three critical ministers is also confirmation of continued movement toward a just and democratic society in Iraq.

This began in earnest with the Real Time Regional Gateway program [RTRG], implemented in Iraq and then in Afghanistan to vacuum up all possible information. The ethos of RTRG appeared in the U.S. in the form of the PRISM data-mining program. Americans were scandalized to learn from .

quoting an August 2005 speech by then president George W. Bush justifying staying the course in Iraq by saying, "We owe [the two thousand soldiers who had already died] something. We will finish the task that they gave their lives for."); Van Putten, Zeelenberg, and Van Dijk, "Who Throws Good Money after Bad?," 2010, 33 ("one of the most important reasons to continue the way in Iraq was to prevent acknowledging that soldiers who fell in battle died in vain").

Living in France while the Falklands War was going on, I felt a profound sense of shame and betrayal, just as I did by the war in Iraq. People have asked why I don't talk about that directly in my plays. Well, politics needs to be articulated in many different ways.

The Washington leadership has put aside non-proliferation programmes and devoted its energies and resources to driving the country to war by extraordinary deceit, then trying to manage the catastrophe it created in Iraq.

We know that there are unaccounted-for Scud and other ballistic missiles in Iraq. And part of the problem is that, since 1998, there has been no way to even get minimal information about those programs except through intelligence means.

There is not a great sense that the Americans know what they are doing, or are making much progress in Iraq. And there is satisfaction in seeing that the Iraqis are successful in resisting the United States.

The progress in Iraq has not been without cost.

President George W. Bush campaigned on a promise to not nation-build. Instead, he launched a war against Iraq, notably mostly for its many years of nation-building that followed.

The Iraq Historic Allegations Team, or IHAT, was established with honourable intentions. But, of the many thousands of allegations put to IHAT, only a small proportion merited full investigation, and only a handful might lead to a prosecution. Some claims were entirely spurious.

If we end up with war in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran at the same time, can anyone see a more damaging prospect for America's world role than that?

I was 20 years old when, despite mass protests against military action, Iraq was invaded in 2003 - it didn't make for motivated political participation, I can tell you.