Iraq Quotes

Its very strange that you condemn me as a terrorist at the same time as you call on me to help you combat terrorism in Iraq and elsewhere. It doesnt make sense!

President Bush says we've turned the corner in Iraq. What is that, about 16 corners we've turned? I think they call that running in circles.

I still agree with the invasion of Iraq. I don't agree with most of the decisions that accompanied it.

Iraq's always been very secular.

I think President Obama has always been a little bit underestimated. Some of the things he's done with foreign policy have been unassailable. Getting us out of Iraq, killing Osama Bin Laden.

I think the behavior of the troops has been a huge factor in the rise of the insurgency and in the rise of the anti-American feelings there[in Iraq].

Sometimes Sarah [Chalke] starts to talk about Iraq or whatever and she gets all excited, like I actually give a crap what she's saying. Come on, she's a woman. But still, it's very cute.

Iran is undertaking a massive effort to expand its influence in southern Iraq. At the same time, that influence decreases the more the political process in Iraq progresses.

The national unity government will need to implement a program that brings all Iraqis together, builds a happy future for the people of Iraq, and gets Iraq to stand on its own feet.

I am sorry for those who have never had the experience of seeing the victory of a national liberation movement, and I feel cold contempt for those who jeer at it.

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.

Genocide is the responsibility of the entire world.

An hour later. the moon reflected its light on the Tigris as well. The sun, the moon, and Fatima. What else could I ask for?

You asked if I loved her? I can't even whisper her name, my heart would burst out of my chest.

I left a piece of my soul that will always rightfully belong in the desert.

To stay alive, you have to keep moving. Running, relocating, driving, doing everything in your power to stay in motion and make it to safety.

I've had people tell me to get over it. I politely tell them, 'How about if I chop off your finger and see if it grows back?

You know, sometimes I wish they would do this for us when we come home alive.

Oh, don't let him pull that 'Pearl Harbor I'm going off to war' stuff on you.

The cost of war is like an immeasurable tremor that knows no borders, its shockwaves reverberating across the world resulting in universal suffering.

Worry only about what you control. The rest is war.

In the 10th century, Baghdad instituted a licensing exam that all doctors had to take before practicing as physicians

There is no way to imagine what it feels like to be shot at. I will never be with him when he is the most scared.

Afghanistan changed him, but Iraq sculpted him.

Maybe it's time to stop being a soldier and go home to be a father. And a husband for Deanna. I'm not sure how.

If freedom is free and none need worry, then what blood drops for thee?

For the good that I would: I do not, but the evil which I would not, I do.

Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputate––then spread, lift up, fly.

Everytime I hold you is the last time I hold you, I've known that since the very first time.

Evan no longer tells people I fight bad guys for a living. When asked, he tells his friends that his dad talks on the phone a lot and vacuums on occasion.

We would send them all to hell! And hell they would go!

Waving from side to side in the breeze, her long golden hairshimmered as she handed Thomas a bottle of beer.“When are you coming home to me?” She said eloquently.

War becomes a part of you. It is a feeling just as much as an experience. If you can’t feel it, you weren’t paying attention. And if you weren’t paying attention, you are probably dead anyway.

I will always hate war, but will be forever proud of mine.

I'm obsessed with trying to recount events as accurately and honestly as possible, but in practice the only thing I'm really any good at is telling you how I feel.

The most complete gift of God is a life based on knowledge.

Muslim and non-Muslim from across the world flocked to Baghdad to be part of Al-Ma'mun's project "Bait Al-Hekmah" or "House of Wisdom

I miss it: the smell of sand, sweat, and gunpowder, rings of salt from dried sweat on my pants’ legs, and around my waist just under where my armor sits.

Everyone's a knucklehead at one point or another.

He is a true casualty of battle. There's not a physical scar, but look at the man's heart, and his head, and there are scars galore.

God works through people by stirring their hearts and sometimes people never know how they are helping others.

Next time -- we will roll out the red carpet for you in the United States of Arabia, my brethren!

Gentlemen. You are looking at the true Abraham Lincoln of Arabia. And in order to end our internal bickering - our civil war, if you will - I have solicited your aid.

There is a little bit of everybody in everybody.

To hear them laugh was to hear that everything was all right, but to see them laugh was to see otherwise

I would add entertainment media cheerleader Wolf Blitzer, CNN’s Pentagon sycophant in Kuwait City, a representative of the neon press, neon being that colorless, inert gas that lights up on command.

Always I am speaking English on behalf of fools

Who supports the troops? The troops support the troops.

I wanted people to know that we fired rounds into moving trucks and open windows to survive, not for anyone else’s freedom. Not for the Democrats. Not for Republicans. Just to survive.

The other day, we went somewhere, and did something.