There is a kind of sympathy with the Americans who are looked upon as liberators.

It is the American air protection, which safeguards the freedom enjoyed by the Kurdish region. It guarantees the cultural, health and civilizational progress made in Iraqi Kurdistan.

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

Military confrontation is not a suitable alternative in confronting terror and current security threats.

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

Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another.

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