The justice of our cause must be reflected in the manner in which we rectify the crimes of the past.

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

The Kurdish people have the right of self-determination like every other nation in the world.

Rather, it is through conciliation and compromise that we are building a fair Iraq, a just state for all its peoples.

The justice of our cause must be reflected in the manner in which we rectify the crimes of the past.

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

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.