Quotes about Iraq

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It was at that point that I started probing them about what they wanted from America. Here's what they told me: "We want — David Chrisinger, See Me for Who I Am: Student Veterans' Stories of War and Coming Home
Oh, don't let him pull that 'Pearl Harbor I'm going off to war' stuff on you. — Michael Hastings, I Lost My Love in Baghdad: A Modern War Story
If feels good to live after death. It feels good to not be dead. It feels so good to find myself alive and flying home. — Michael Hastings, I Lost My Love in Baghdad: A Modern War Story
A life was a story, and a story was nothing more than a promise that something bad would happen. It was a promise that p — Matthew J. Hefti, A Hard And Heavy Thing
The cost of war is like an immeasurable tremor that knows no borders, its shockwaves reverberating across the world resu — Aysha Taryam
War is easier than peace. The government elects to punish an enemy it perceives as weak because it is easier to send an — Lewis H. Lapham
Worry only about what you control. The rest is war. — Matthew J. Hefti, A Hard And Heavy Thing
You’ll never let me go, will you? Giving me the space and freedom I want isn’t your idea of love, is it? You’d rather cu — Matthew J. Hefti, A Hard And Heavy Thing
When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he meant our nation. — Al Franken
In the evening [the Iraqi interim governor of Maysan province] asked me for fifty dollars to repair his windows, which h — Rory Stewart, The Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq
Some say that because the United States was wrong before, it cannot possibly be right now, or has not the right to be ri — Christopher Hitchens, A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq
I have been taunted on various platforms recently for becoming a neo-conservative, and have been the object of some fasc — Christopher Hitchens, Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left
Indifferent to truth, willing to use police-state tactics and vulgar libels against inconvenient witnesses, hopeless on — Christopher Hitchens
On January 17, 1991 and for the 43 days that followed, I watched CNN’s live coverage of SCUD missiles and bombs fall ove — Weam Namou, The Great American Family
Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enligh — Saddam Hussein, The Revolution and Woman in Iraq
And I withdrew into myself when I understood that they wanted to extract every thought in my head, one by one, like deca — Alia Mamdouh
In the 10th century, Baghdad instituted a licensing exam that all doctors had to take before practicing as physicians — Firas Alkhateeb, Lost Islamic History: Reclaiming Muslim Civilisation from the Past
Shrouded as he was for a decade in an apparent cloak of anonymity and obscurity, Osama bin Laden was by no means an invi — Christopher Hitchens, The Enemy
There is no way to imagine what it feels like to be shot at. I will never be with him when he is the most scared. — Melissa Seligman, The Day After He Left for Iraq: A Story of Love, Family, and Reunion
Afghanistan changed him, but Iraq sculpted him. — Melissa Seligman, The Day After He Left for Iraq: A Story of Love, Family, and Reunion