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

Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession.

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

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

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

Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another.

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