Iraq Quotes - Page 20

• CIA Director George Tenet briefed a Senate panel ... about the current situation in Iraq. He described how cash was being stolen and women were being assaulted with impunity. Senators love to attend these continuing education seminars.

  Argus Hamilton

  Directors, Cash, Stolen

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• Algunos dicen que combatir a los terroristas en el extranjero desde el 11 de septiembre no hace sino agitar el avispero. Pero los terroristas que atacaron ese día ya estaban agitados. Si Estados Unidos no combatiera a los terroristas en Irak y Afganistán y en otros lugares, ¿qué harían esos miles de asesinos, empezar de repente a llevar vidas productivas de servicio y caridad? ... Se trata de asesinos que han hecho de la muerte de estadounidenses la vocación de sus vidas.

  George W. Bush

  Fighting, Productive Life, America

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• Winning an argument with your wife is like winning the war with Iraq. Once you win, you're in even more trouble.

  James Carville

  War, Winning, Wife

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• Why are we working so hard to preserve Iraq, a fake country to begin with? Why do we care whether this fake country that was drawn on the map 100 years ago remains?

  Bill Maher

  Country, Years, Fake

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• What we've also got to think about is the limitations of military power. Maybe it's time to focus on the economic issues, and most of all the political issues, because the political failure in Iraq right now is almost worse than the military failure. And the two are intertwined.

  Paul Rieckhoff

  Military, Thinking, Issues

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• What we have in the Bush team is a faith-based administration. It launched a faith-based war in Iraq, on the basis of faith-based intelligence, with a faith-based plan for Iraqi reconstruction, supported by faith-based tax cuts to generate faith-based revenues.

  Thomas Friedman

  War, Team, Cutting

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• In the annals of American blunders, the Bay of Pigs may have been even more feckless, and the invasion of Iraq more costly, but we cannot yet calculate the cost of teaching Iran and others, by our role in the casual overthrow of Moammar Gaddafi, the peril of not having nuclear weapons.

  George Will

  Teaching, Iran, Pigs

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• As a citizen I felt appalled that we WENT TO WAR over faulty information - that felt false or at least "stretched" from the first time they started to push the idea that Iraq and 9/11 were connected, though they didn't seem to be and there was no logical reason for thinking they were. It's like your neighbors the Smiths burned your house down, and then the next day you retaliated by burning down the Jones' house.

  Christopher Durang

  War, Thinking, Ideas

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• Se calcula que el coste de las guerras de Bush y Obama en Irak y Afganistán asciende ahora a 4,4 billones de dólares, una gran victoria para Osama bin Laden, cuyo objetivo anunciado era llevar a Estados Unidos a la bancarrota haciéndole caer en una trampa. El presupuesto militar de 2011 -casi igual al del resto del mundo- es más alto en términos reales que en cualquier otro momento desde la Segunda Guerra Mundial y se prevé que aumente aún más.

  Noam Chomsky

  Running, Military, Real

  Noam Chomsky (2016). “Who Rules the World?”, p.62, Metropolitan Books

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• The only time I penetrated Tony Blair's defenses over Iraq was by keeping eye contact while telling him he never seemed to by sorry

  Andrew Marr

  Sorry, Eye, Defense

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• We civilians defend our own right to free speech. The military in Iraq does not defend our right to free speech.

  Medea Benjamin

  Military, Doe, Speech

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• There were no terrorists in Iraq. There's never been an Iraqi terrorist.

  Jodie Evans

  Terrorista

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• There was never a recorded Iraqi terrorists in the last 20 years in any terrorist attack. There were no terrorists in Iraq until we invaded it.

  Jodie Evans

  Years, Lasts, Terrorist

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• Oftentimes Westerners don't really understand fully the values of this particular culture. And I think the jury is still out as to whether democracy can really thrive in Iraq.

  Katie Couric

  Thinking, Democracy, Culture

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• On the issue of Iraq, it is my hope, and my challenge to my colleagues, that our debate will be based on what is best for the future of our nation and for Iraq, not what's best for a political party or presidential campaign.

  Mitch McConnell

  Party, Issues, Presidential

  "McConnell touts prospect of divided government". www.cnn.com. January 3, 2007.

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• Most Americans believe that escalation will not bring the war in Iraq to a responsible end, and that's why I've proposed not just a troop cap, but a phased redeployment that will start bringing our troops home.

  Barack Obama

  Guerra, Creer, Hogar

  "Flat State of the Union Address Still Earns Requisite Applause", www.foxnews.com. January 24, 2007.

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• The president has outlined a new strategy for success in Iraq, but in order for this effort to be successful the Iraqi government must be held accountable. ... If we fail in Iraq, or withdraw our troops prematurely, the terrorists will follow us home. Success is our only option.

  John Boehner

  Home, Successful, Government

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• Pasó por alto la desastrosa guerra y su precio multimillonario y volvió a insinuar que nuestra presencia en Iraq está mejorando de algún modo la situación en ese país caótico y turbulento. El Congreso debe oponerse al plan de Bush de intensificar la guerra.

  John F. Kerry

  País, Guerra, Precio

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• The fact is that the two years or so after 9/11 were a terrible time in America – a time of political exploitation and intimidation, culminating in the deliberate misleading of the nation into the invasion of Iraq. It’s probably worth pointing out that I’m not saying anything now that I wasn’t saying in real time back then, when Bush had a sky-high approval rating and any criticism was denounced as treason. And there’s nothing I’ve done in my life of which I’m more proud.

  Paul Krugman

  Real, Approval Rating, Years

  "More About the 9/11 Anniversary". krugman.blogs.nytimes.com. September 12, 2011.

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• Mientras Cindy Sheehan ganaba la simpatía del público como la madre Estrella de Oro contra la matanza en Irak, el partido republicano decidió importar un blanco más fácil al que atizar. Así que trajeron a un fundamentalista religioso adicto al crack del "yo-saludo-tu-valor, Saddam" que no puede decirnos dónde fue el dinero.

  Greg Palast

  Mamá, Religiosa, Estrellas

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• Without just cause of reason, without legal or moral justification, and without a thread of proof that Iraq directly threatens the security of the United States, the Bush administration has headed to war.

  Zack de la Rocha

  War, United States, Administration

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• Rand es un libertario. Tiene una visión del mundo que yo no comparto. Dijo que no deberíamos tener tropas en Irak. Estuvo de acuerdo con Obama en que era un desastre. Cuando hubo una oportunidad de hacer algo constructivo en Siria con una zona de exclusión aérea, dijo que no la necesitábamos.

  Barack Obama

  Views, Libertarian, Troops

  Fuente: www.nbcnews.com

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• ISIL is not the JV team. I cannot stress enough that there's a terrorist army in Syria and Iraq that wants to attack the homeland and we're not doing anything about it. So how do you defeat the ideology? Build up others? You reject Rand Paul.

  Rand Paul

  Stress, Team, Army

  Fuente: www.nbcnews.com

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• The Iraq War was the first conflict in western history in which an imperialist war was massively protested against before it had even been launched.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Firsts, Conflict

  "Noam Chomsky on 1968". www.newstatesman.com. May 8, 2008.

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• Capturing Saddam Hussein and ensuring that this brutal dictator will never return to power is an important step toward stabilizing Iraq for the Iraqis. Let's also be clear: Our problems in Iraq have not been caused by one man, and this is a moment when the administration can and must launch a major effort to gain international support and win the peace.

  John F. Kerry

  Men, Winning, Effort

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