Quotes about Iraq

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Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only — Aberjhani, The American Poet Who Went Home Again
Whether it’s an Iraqi widow mourning her dead loved ones standing helplessly in the rubble of her former home or a dying — M.B. Dallocchio, The Desert Warrior
In the time that we're here today, more women and children will die violently in the Darfur region than in Iraq, Afghani — George Clooney
The war to preserve the privilege of mythmaking — Marvin Bell, Mars Being Red
An hour later. the moon reflected its light on the Tigris as well. The sun, the moon, and Fatima. What else could I ask — Ahmad Ardalan, Baghdad: The Final Gathering
You asked if I loved her? I can't even whisper her name, my heart would burst out of my chest. — Ahmad Ardalan, Baghdad: The Final Gathering
One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror. — George W. Bush
Thomas Jefferson once said: 'Of course the people don't want war. But the people can be brought to the bidding of their — Jon Stewart
The number of people killed by the sanctions in Iraq is greater than the total number of people killed by all weapons of — Noam Chomsky
Arabs and other Muslims generally agreed that Saddam Hussein might be a bloody tyrant, but, paralleling FDR's thinking, — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
First Afghanistan, now Iraq. So who's next? Syria? North Korea? Iran? Where will it all end?' If these illegal intervent — Daniel Kofman, A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq
A president who is burdened with a failed and unpopular war, and who has lost the trust of the country, simply can no lo — Glenn Greenwald, A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency
It struck me that such analyses had it backward. It’s the American public for whom the Iraq War is often no more real th — Evan Wright, Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War
Ridding Iraq of weapons of mass destruction. That was the whole idea, right? That‘s why we went. I am reluctant to let t — Rachel Maddow
1. Bangladesh.... In 1971 ... Kissinger overrode all advice in order to support the Pakistani generals in both their civ — Christopher Hitchens
The 'pre-emption' versus 'prevention' debate may be a distinction without much difference. The important thing is to hav — Christopher Hitchens, Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left
Nothing—not even the US Army—more threatens the future of a democratic, pluralistic and (dare we wish, secular) Iraq tha — Marc Cooper
The debacle in Iraq has reinforced the realist dictum, disparaged by idealists in the 1990s, that the legacies of geogra — Robert D. Kaplan
As a Nobel Peace laureate, I, like most people, agonize over the use of force. But when it comes to rescuing an innocent — José Ramos-Horta, A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq
I think you can be an enemy of Saddam Hussein even if Donald Rumsfeld is also an enemy of Saddam Hussein. — Adam Michnik