#iraqis

We have exhausted all of our diplomatic effort to get the Iraqis to comply with their own agreements and with international law. Given that... we have got to force them to comply, and we are doing so militarily. ↗

— Tom Daschle

#comply #diplomatic #doing #effort #exhausted

I can imagine that the Iraqis undertake the destruction out of fear. If they had denied it, if they had said no, that certainly would have played into the hands of those that would like to take armed action immediately. I have no illusions in that regard. ↗

— Hans Blix

#armed #certainly #denied #destruction #fear

The Iraqis are not threatened by the Turks or by the Iranians or by the Saudis and they tell me that these are not weapons of mass destruction, they are weapons of self-destruction. ↗

— Hans Blix

#iranians #iraqis #mass #me #saudis

What the UN inspectors can do is demonstrate to the world, help the Iraqi government demonstrate to the world that the Iraqis are cooperatively disarming if that is in fact what the Iraqi government decides to do. ↗

— Douglas Feith

#demonstrate #disarming #fact #government #help

We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them. ↗

— Barbara Boxer

#build #chance #democracy #enough #explain

We should not mislead the Iraqis into thinking they have unlimited time to reach a settlement. The longer they think that, the less likely they will be to act. ↗

— Sherrod Brown

#into #iraqis #less #likely #limited time

I am so sick of reading about another car bomb, another suicide bomber, another 10, 20, 30, 70, 100 people dead in a day, both Americans and Iraqis. ↗

— Rosanne Cash

#am #another #bomb #bomber #both

There is no doubt that Iraqis, like Australians and Americans, love and desire freedom. However, if freedom doesn't mean the right to complete self-determination, unfettered by interests other than one's own, then that freedom is less than worthless - it's oppression. ↗

— Amir Butler

#complete #desire #doubt #freedom #however

If all goes well, the Iraqis are going to have a country that's going to have a representative government and will be at peace with its neighbors and in the region. ↗

— Douglas Feith

#goes #going #government #iraqis #neighbors

I argued that the Bush administration, and the Coalition officials more recently, didn't understand Iraqi society. They thought it was a blank slate, that they could use Iraqis as guinea pigs. ↗

— Juan Cole

#argued #blank #blank slate #bush #bush administration