#iraqis

Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#anxiety #definitely #essentially #exists #humiliating

We were told this war would be over in a matter of weeks, and that the Iraqis would be able to finance it with oil sales. We were promised it was not a mission of nation building. ↗

— Sherrod Brown

#building #finance #iraqis #matter #mission

I am told that the majority of Iraqis wanted Saddam removed from power, but they were unwilling and were incapable of doing the job themselves because they feared Saddam and knew the pain and torture he was capable of inflicting upon them. ↗

— Howard Coble

#because #capable #doing #feared #i

We've killed a million Iraqis since the start of the Gulf war - mostly by blocking humanitarian aid. ↗

— Woody Harrelson

#blocking #gulf #gulf war #humanitarian #iraqis

We need to get our sons and daughters home and their responsibility for the security of Iraq needs to be assumed by Iraqis who will stand up and toe the line for their countries. ↗

— Jay Inslee

#countries #daughters #get #home #iraq

God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Iraqis. ↗

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

#hands #hell #iraqis #roast #stomachs

I've seen looting around the world and thought I knew the best looters in the world. The Iraqis excel at that. ↗

— David Kay

#best #excel #i #iraqis #knew

The time frame is very small to disarm the militia, to bring about a security situation in which the governing council, the 24 Iraqis or however many others they appoint, can govern the country. ↗

— Richard Lugar

#appoint #bring #council #country #disarm

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. ↗

— Walter Russell Mead

#great #iraq #iraqis #know #making

As we continue to fight the war on terror, we express our gratitude to our troops whose valor over the last three years provided freedom to the Iraqis, while protecting our liberty here at home. ↗

— Tim Murphy

#express #fight #freedom #gratitude #here