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"We believe that an Iraqi founding national assembly, freely elected, must decide the future of Iraq."
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"This will be Iraq for all without discrimination among Iraqi citizens, or ethnic or sectarian discrimination."

"As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference."

"We must provide all kinds of freedom, personal and economic, to all Iraqis. I will fight for that."

"My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy."

"A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale."

"I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized."

"Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight."

"Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession."
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"We believe that an Iraqi founding national assembly, freely elected, must decide the future of Iraq."
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