these contacts are bearing fruit. |
These evil forces will not continue to inflict harm on the Iraqi people, |
They were planning to kill the whole delegation, or at least me. |
They will leave, God willing, |
This conference is not the end of the road for us, it is the first step ... to open up horizons of dialogue, |
Three years ago, the hand of terrorism claimed the lives of thousands of innocent people at the World Trade Center in New York. Terrorism did not stop at its mean act but further wreaked havoc in several spots of the world, with no discrimination between one religion and another and one people and another, |
Today we are better off, you are better off, the world is better off without Saddam Hussein, |
Today we are entering a new phase in history, ... It is a time for all Iraqis to come together to build our future. |
We are adamant that democracy is going to prevail, it's going to win in iraq and this is where terrorists are trying to hurt us and trying to undermine us. |
We are determined to clean Falluja from terrorists, |
We are getting all the liberal democratic forces together as a secular movement because we feel that these forces are the only ones who will be able to unite the country, |
We are succeeding in Iraq, |
We are very determined that blood loss should be minimized, |
We call on all friendly and peace-loving nations to stand fast by Iraq because we need their assistance, not in the next year, but right away. We need more assistance from the multinational force, |
We definitely are going to stick to the timetable of elections in January next year, |