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 the meeting. |
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. |
My response to this is that this sentence is unjust, and it's ill-founded and based on falsehood, |
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. |
People will perceive him to be much more vulnerable now. |
prepared to go to the Senate and respond to questions. |
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, |
Saddam is still alive and he's still in Iraq. He's renewing his network, |
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. |
The court will be impartial and just. |
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, and they lost. |
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. That's a long process. Essentially, they say, don't do anything now. |
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 Iraqi people never had a personality that galvanized them, and around which they gathered, throughout the eight decades of Iraqi history. |
The view that we hold in Iraq now is this -- that democracy is associated with elections. I believe that elections are possible. |