#iraqis

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

We need to make it clear that we will withdraw from Iraq within 6 to 9 months - so that the Iraqis will know that they must stand up and defend the opportunity given to them. ↗

— John Olver

#defend #given #iraq #iraqis #know

If the Iraqis fail to implement the reforms, if they fail to get a handle on the violence, there's nothing the United States can do, militarily or otherwise, that can solve those problems. They have to assume the primary responsibility to govern themselves. ↗

— Leon Panetta

#fail #get #govern #handle #implement

Just two weeks ago, millions of Iraqis defied the threats of terrorists and went to the polls to determine their own future. I congratulate the Iraqi people for the courage they've shown in making these elections so successful. ↗

— Bill Frist

#congratulate #courage #defied #determine #elections

Well, Mr. Speaker, if so many of these Iraqis are ready to come up and to provide the security, the police work in the country, then surely there should be no problem with putting American forces into the background instead of having them up front. ↗

— Marty Meehan

#background #come #country #forces #front

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

Saddam Hussein has been brutal against his people, but when he was committing those crimes, the international community did not come to the rescue of the Iraqis. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

#been #brutal #come #committing #community

I said in October of 2008 that there was no proof that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or had the intention or capability of attacking the United States. Here we are. Almost 4,700 troops died, tens of thousands injured, over a million Iraqis dead. It will cost $5 trillion in the end for the war. ↗

— Dennis Kucinich

#attacking #capability #cost #dead #destruction