We had hoped this delegation would occupy Iraq’s seat in the U.N., and we understand this was not approved due to the reservations of some of the neighbors.

There is a bond of blood between Iraq and the US in fighting for the cause of freedom,

We will have an assembly which is elected by the people and a government which is completely legitimate,

come and fix it.

That’s a very important policy. The United States now can be taken to mean the removal of Saddam Hussein, and we believe that President Clinton took a courageous stand.

My message to CPA is let my people go, … Let my people be free. We are grateful to President Bush for liberating Iraq but it is time for Iraqi people to run their affairs.

could get Americans killed.

My response to this is that this sentence is unjust, and it’s ill-founded and based on falsehood,

We actually started military operations against Saddam in March of 1995. The operation went on for three weeks. We received no support.

You may say that the Iraqis are overcompensating for Saddam’s deceptive pro-Arab slogans. This does not justify what is happening, but might explain it. Saddam used to give the Arabs privileges in Iraq while depriving...

The court will be impartial and just.

When America treats its friends this way, then they are in big trouble.

People will perceive him to be much more vulnerable now.

I call on the international community to be fair to the Iraqi people. My position is that we respect international resolutions but in return demand justice and accountability for those who stole Iraq’s money.

If I visit Washington, it means there is no ice wall between us,

I’m going back to confront those lies,

The view that we hold in Iraq now is this — that democracy is associated with elections. I believe that elections are possible.

I don’t think that they have many of the scientists who were involved in the weapons program to talk to at this time, and there were thousands of people, engineers and scientists, they know where...

prepared to go to the Senate and respond to questions.

There is some evidence that it was formulated in writing before the war started, for after the war. And I think that Saddam had this plan done, and it’s being implemented by the remnants of...

Do not seek to find a reason why elections are not possible. Seek to make them possible, and they will be possible.

Patriotism is not a piece of paper. Had we wanted to live in other countries, we would have stayed there. But we came to Iraq.

I respond by saying it’s always more important to look to the future than to the past, … The country is in a dire situation. We need to improve the quality of life of the...

meeting … called by the U.S. to give their vision of the interim Iraqi authority. It will be a one-day meeting. And the U.S. will present its vision, and there will be a statement after...

It will be a war of national liberation. We believe the people reject totalitarianism.

The intelligence agencies of the United States say they have a five-year plan – that we must develop new sources of human intelligence and infrastructure inside Iraq, before we can do anything about the regime....

The issue of terrorism must be dealt with firmly. We must work very hard to avoid loss of life. We must work very hard to avoid civilian casualties. And those terrorists and Baathists are holding...

This law will embody the principles that find general consensus among the Iraqi people … respect for human rights and respect for basic political freedoms, including freedom of religion and the practice of religion and...

The elections went well because the Iraqi people have an overwhelming desire to vote. The unions of people are stronger than the handful of terrorists. And the terrorists threw everything they had into this fray,...

The Iraqi people are living a long-running tragedy because of the legacy of the old regime, the Americans and their actions that are unsuitable for Iraqi society, and the weakness of national resolve.

The view that we hold in Iraq now is this – that democracy is associated with elections. I believe that elections are possible.

We look forward for cooperation with the U.N. in establishing and drafting a constitution,

As for democracy and the political process in Iraq, isn’t there democracy in Germany? And yet is the Nazi party allowed back?

And we are grateful to the American young men and women who are risking their lives to give the Iraqi people this chance, this dream of democracy in Iraq now.

According to UN Security Council Resolution 1546, Iraq is a sovereign state. There are multinational forces in Iraq and I want these forces to be of assistance to the Iraqi government. I want their role...

This process has to be entirely in the hands of Iraqis, and it has to be done by a constitutional convention that is completely free of all other institutions in Iraq, including the governing council.

I strongly believe that a federal structure based on administrative and geographic lines with strong powers for the federated states will be the best solution for Iraq.

Saddam did not have a serious military plan to confront the coalition, but he had a serious post-defeat plan which he’s putting into operation,

The Iraqi people never had a personality that galvanized them, and around which they gathered, throughout the eight decades of Iraqi history.

to be more positive about what is going on in Iraq.

I do not know but I would be surprised if it did.

Saddam is still alive and he’s still in Iraq. He’s renewing his network,

Where did the money go? What was it used for? Who was it given to?