It’d be easy to blame everything on 9/11 or the wars that came after. It’s really about the choices we made. By necessity we adapt to the realities of the world we live in, but...

It was too late to pray, though. The sky was clear. The helicopters were gone. Too late for so many things. My fists hit the floor. My head hit the floor. My heart broke, hardened,...

I have this thought, it’s horrible, and it makes me sick, but it’s true: one day these students will grow up and have their own kids, and they’re going to name them for men and...

The real alternatives to diplomacy are much worse: either rapid descent to a North Korea situation, with an unsupervised nuclear program leading inexorably to nuclear weapons and all their dangerously unpredictable regional consequences; or an...

Northern Iraq has become, economically, a natural extension of Turkey.

Iraq has been known for saying all kinds of inflammatory things in the past, … And the president’s not really interested as much in what they say as what they do.

the shooting and killing weren’t as black-and-white as most people think. The actions live in that hazy area of blown-apart stone walls and hesitations. Sometimes I shot when I shouldn’t have; other times I didn’t...

Whatever differences we had in the past, that a free and prosperous and stable Iraq is a linchpin and a key to a stable Middle East is understood, … people are looking for ways that...

We are pleased to have frank dialogue with them [the EU delegation]. They visited Iraq, which was liberated from dictatorship, to show their solidarity with the Iraqi people and pave the way to the conference...

I don’t care how we got in [to Iraq].

if you use that logic and reasoning, that means every car bomb in Iraq would be considered an in-kind contribution to John Kerry.

Military intervention cannot liberate women because it is embedded within a set of assumptions, beliefs, and social relations that reinforce and reproduce gender inequality, as well as other social inequalities within and across nation-states. Military...

Ridding Iraq of weapons of mass destruction. That was the whole idea, right? That‘s why we went. I am reluctant to let that fact disappear down the memory hole, because if— as the war ends,...

In Korea I’d been so afraid that Sami would lose her dad. She did, but she didn’t get a flag. He went to Doha, then to Baghdad, then to Kabul, then to someplace else, and...

DPRK translates to Democratic People’s Republic of Korea—and if the words Democratic and Republic sound like a good thing, well, it’s oxymoronic because the Korea we’re talking about here is the communist one in the...

The debacle in Iraq has reinforced the realist dictum, disparaged by idealists in the 1990s, that the legacies of geography, history and culture really do set limits on what can be accomplished in any given...

In terms of border issue with Iraq, obviously, we and the Iraqis monitor closely the activities of Iranian representatives in Iraq.

Bush, you must admit that you have been defeated in Iraq and that you are being defeated in Afghanistan and that you will soon be defeated in Palestine, with the help and strength of God.

So I close this long reflection on what I hope is a not-too-quaveringly semi-Semitic note. When I am at home, I will only enter a synagogue for the bar or bat mitzvah of a friend’s...

He’s defending the issue of pursuing the Oil for Food program investigation. He’s defending the full sovereignty. There are attempts to undermine sovereignty in Iraq. He’s defending the issue of not accepting any ruling by...

The motive behind such dirty moves is to sow discord, target Islamic and national unity and solidarity in Iraq.

If she gets good care when she returns to Iraq, she should live a long and full life.

We need to stay in Iraq until the job is done. The President understands this and I’m glad that he is getting more countries to participate. We must change the chant of millions of young...

Nothing—not even the US Army—more threatens the future of a democratic, pluralistic and (dare we wish, secular) Iraq than the political ascendancy of Islamic fascists like Al Sadr.

Iraq is a very useful base to spread jihad in the Middle East. They have men there and weapons there and there is a breakdown in law and order. Conditions are similar to those in...

Evidence already existed that President Bush lied about our reasons for invading Iraq when he delivered his January, 2003, State of the Union speech. The Downing Street memo confirmed that intelligence was ‘fixed’ to support...

The meeting began well, meaning it had the potential for being short.

There are indeed areas of Iraq that are relatively safe and secure, and the people in those provinces are working their way toward to a peaceful and democratic society,

give the American people a realistic and clear assessment of our progress in Iraq, even when the indicators are sobering.

We are protesting for the sake of Iraq and not for the sake of any party. We want free and genuine elections.

[That, plus such scandals as the abuses in U.S. military prisons in Iraq, damages the] core … It will take time to restore that kind of reputation and, yes, honor.

If the Bahreini royal family can have an embassy, a state, and a seat at the UN, why should the twenty-five million Kurds not have a claim to autonomy? The alleviation of their suffering and...

I think any well run organization does contingency planning on a routine basis. The humanitarian side has for some time now been doing contingency planning in the event that there’s military action in Iraq.

This will be Iraq for all without discrimination among Iraqi citizens, or ethnic or sectarian discrimination.

We don’t want to have a child that has many illnesses, and that will pass away after a few months. A child must have a good environment, and parents that will take care of it....

We would like UN resolutions to be enforced, including on Iraq.

The men and women who serve this great nation, whether they are stationed in Iraq, Fort Riley, or the Korean Peninsula, or they serve us at home as our community first responders, serve because they...

We have all agreed to a democratic Iraq. We have agreed to ballot boxes deciding everything, We have agreed that the people should chose everything. They’ve never said they wanted an Islamic law, Islamic state.

Iraq will be the story until it isn’t any more.

This is who I was, before I was dead. When I cared, when I was relentless.

Arabs and other Muslims generally agreed that Saddam Hussein might be a bloody tyrant, but, paralleling FDR’s thinking, “he is our bloody tyrant.” In their view, the invasion was a family affair to be settled...

They will not leave any of us in Iraq, … We will either have to be outside Iraq — or under the earth.

The Iraqi national resistance will stand against the plan of provoking civil war in Iraq, and we are ready to fight to prevent it.

I just want to point out that in the past when Iraq had disputes, it invaded its neighbors,

Who supports the troops? The troops support the troops.

I have a friend who is in Iraq right now and is doing a lot of good over there, restoring schools and helping democracy in a way. Do I agree with the administration and their...

The best way is to leave this post and to permit a kind of democratization in Iraq and to give the mass destruction arms to the United Nations and then there will be a peaceful...

Someone earlier made a remark about losing 500 soldiers and 2,200 wounded in Iraq. Those soldiers were sent there by the vote of Sen. Lieberman, Sen. Edwards and Sen. Kerry. I think that is a...

Iraq has a new opportunity to comply with all these relevant resolutions of the Security Council.

Facing a deteriorating economy and a weakening hold over the populace, the Iraqi state under Saddam Hussein opted to revitalize tribal leaders and conservative practices as a means of stabilizing state power; those conservative practices...