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

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.

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

Justice for the major perpetrators cannot be separated from the vindication of the rights of the individual victim.

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.

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

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