A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale.

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

Iraq is not occupied, but there are foreign forces on its soil, which is different.

A greater international role is important to lift some of the burden from the shoulders of the United States.

All I wanted was to be a university teacher.

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.