May God preserve you and watch over you.

Divisiveness is not good for the people.

I am a part of the political process whether the multinational forces are present or not. Politics is serving the people, not chairs and positions.

We are still resisters, and we are still resisting the occupier militarily and culturally and by all the means of resistance. Repeat after me: No, no for the occupier.

For us, holding on to religious rules, and following them, and refraining from what's forbidden, and being diligent with our duties, what do we call that? That's what we call freedom.

Out of my desire to complete Iraq's independence and to finish the withdrawal of the occupation forces from our holy lands, I am obliged to halt military operations of the honest Iraqi resistance until the withdrawal of the occupation forces is complete.

I beg you not to resort to demonstrations, for they have become nothing but burned paper.