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

I believe the democratic transformation in Iraq will lead to change in Middle East.

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

We need to make a distinction between misled Iraqis, those who believe that they are carrying weapons to liberate Iraq from what they call occupation, and criminal gangs that came from outside and wants to wage a deadly war on the Iraqi people, killing women and children in mosques and churches.

Trust is for lovers. In politics there are only converging interests.

Iraq is not going to starve to death because of the absence of assistance from Arab countries.

We must acknowledge that for scores of years the Iraqis have offered martyrs and victims but have not been able to change the regime.