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Quotes by Iraqi Authors
"The Cruise missiles do not frighten anyone. We are catching them like fish in a river. I mean here that over the past two days, we managed to shoot down 196 missiles before they hit their target."
"I said I'm the president of Iraq... I did not say deposed."
"Your message is stupid. Iraq is not afraid of you or anyone else when it has a right to claim. What you warned about is not on Iraq's agenda. Iraq is vital and powerful. It is not an opportunistic country. Your administration has not learned from the past."
"You must not lean on a tree on Sabbath, if the tree might be dependent on you for support."
"I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized."
"When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush were scratching around in caves."
"This will be Iraq for all without discrimination among Iraqi citizens, or ethnic or sectarian discrimination."
"We believe that an Iraqi founding national assembly, freely elected, must decide the future of Iraq."
"The American invasion did not succeed in Vietnam, and will never succeed in Iraq."
"Self-determination could mean independence, confederacy, federal and autonomy."
"There is no presence of American infidels in the city of Baghdad."
"God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Iraqis."
"A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale."
"Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another."
"Now even the American command is under siege. We are hitting it from the north, east, south and west. We chase them here and they chase us there. But at the end we are the people who are laying siege to them. And it is not them who are besieging us."
"They're not even within 100 miles of Baghdad. They are not in any place. They hold no place in Iraq. This is an illusion... they are trying to sell to the others an illusion."
"We are not intimidated by the size of the armies, or the type of hardware the US has brought."
"Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight."
"We are in control, they are in a state of hysteria. Losers, they think that by killing civilians and trying to distort the feelings of the people they will win. I think they will not win, those bastards."
"Remember the valiant Iraqi peasant and how he shot down an American Apache with an old weapon."
"We butchered the force present at the airport, we are destroying them."
"My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy."
"We must provide all kinds of freedom, personal and economic, to all Iraqis. I will fight for that."
"The simple fact is this: they are foreigners inside a country which has rejected them. Therefore, these foreigners wherever they go or travel they will be rained down with bullets from everyone. Attacks by members of the resistance will only go up."
"We are safer, the region is safer, the world is safer without Saddam."
"Until and unless we could disband these militias, this country won't be able to function properly."
"An apology for the actions of some troops who, of course, are not representative of the majority of the armed forces here, I think that would have been useful and it would have helped to some extent."
"Every human must take responsibility for his actions."
"As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference."
"It is our people who are sitting in the dark because of these cowardly and treacherous attacks, not our occupiers."
"So, if I were arrested or if I were killed, then after me the issues that American fears about me wouldn't exist anymore - and I couldn't tell you what those issues are."
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