In the evening [the Iraqi interim governor of Maysan province] asked me for fifty dollars to repair his windows, which had been destroyed in a recent demonstration. Although he was the governor, his salary was only four hundred and fifty dollars a month, and Baghdad had still not agreed to give the governors an independent budget.... For the sake of a tiny sum of money - a couple thousand dollars a month from the hundred billion we had spent on the invasion - we were alienating our key partner and successor.
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The war to preserve the privilege of mythmaking
Marvin BellTag: politics poetry war motivation iraq line prodigal
One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror.
George W. BushTag: war dumb iraq iraq-war terrorism
We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attacks on the twin towers and the pentagon and the American struggle in Iraq. These events swung American public opinion in our favor
Benjamin NetanyahuTag: iraq terrorism israel war-on-terror zionism
Until the eighteenth century, people believed that biblical paradise, the Garden of Eden, was a real place. It appeared on maps--located, ironically, at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in what is now modern-day Iraq.
Eric WeinerThe west need someone to tell the man who walks around with the biggest stick in the world, that that stick can`t bring down God`s house.
Saddam HusseinTag: iraq george-bush-senior palestine
Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated.
Saddam HusseinTag: women feminism emancipation islam iraq female-liberation
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When the president during the campaign
said he was against nation building,
I didn't realize he meant our nation.
Tag: politics foreign-policy america usa bush iraq nation-building
In the time that we're here today, more women and children will die violently in the Darfur region than in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Israel or Lebanon. So, after September 30, you won't need the UN - you will simply need men with shovels and bleached white linen and headstones.
George ClooneyTag: politics war death 9-11 iraq israel un darfur afghanistan global palestine united-nations
Whoever tries to climb over our fence, we will try to climb over his house.
Saddam HusseinTag: imperialism iraq baath
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