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Stephen Harper Politician
Iraq

"Today, we are tabling a motion seeking the support of the House for the Government's decision to renew our military mission against ISIL for up to an additional 12 months. Our objectives remain the same: we intend to continue to degrade the capabilities of ISIL, that is, to degrade its ability to engage in military movements of scale, to operate bases in the open, to expand its presence in the region, and to propagate attacks outside the region."

Government Military Iraq
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Robin Williams Actor, Comedian
Iraq

"I was in Iraq, Afghanistan, Djibouti, Bahrain. The first year I went pretty much by myself. Then I went with General [Richard] Myers, head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The shows and audiences were amazing. You'll never get a better group of people."

People Years Iraq
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Al Pacino Actor, Filmmaker
Iraq

"I don't like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight...I've always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing."

Kind Iraq Weight
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Christopher Hitchens Author, Critic, Journalist
Iraq

"The Iraqi Baath Socialist Party was modelled in large part on admiration for European National Socialist and Fascist movements, hoped to emulate them especially in their nationalism against the West. But mutated by Saddam Hussein it became also one that very, very much admired, and grew a special moustache in admiration of the work of Yosif Vissarionovitch Dzugashvili, the great Georgian known to us historically as Stalin. So you had him in modern Iraq, a regime in our own time, that was openly, directly modelled upon the two most extreme examples of European totalitarianism."

Two Party Iraq
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Barack Obama Politician
Iraq

"I've never said that troops should be withdrawn. What I've said is, is that we've got to make sure that we secure and execute the rebuilding and reconstruction process effectively and properly, and I don't think we should have an artificial deadline when to do that."

Thinking Should Have Iraq
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Jalal Talabani Politician
Iraq

"I always tell the Kurds who defend independence: Let's say we declared the independent Kurdish state and Syria, Iran, Iraq and Turkey imposed sanctions on us, without waging a war. How would we survive under those circumstances?"

War Independent Iraq
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Les Paul Musician
Iraq

"If you're in the U.S. and talk to someone on the phone who's in Iraq, you'll experience sound delay. It isn't long, but the sound has to go to a satellite and back, it's used for everything. I'm proud to have that be something I invented."

Long Phones Iraq
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Jalal Talabani Politician
Iraq

"The brutal regime of the dictator fell, the regime that ruled Iraq for decades, the decades of darkness. The decades that were of tyranny."

Iraq Darkness Dictator
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Jalal Talabani Politician
Iraq

"I must tell you that I am committed, as the president of Iraq, to benchmarks and to do our best to achieve some progress forward for national reconciliation."

President Progress Iraq
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Jalal Talabani Politician
Iraq

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

Country Past Iraq
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Barack Obama Politician
Iraq

"Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military."

War Military Iraq
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Eli Roth Filmmaker
Iraq

"I think in a post-9/11 world, with the images coming back from Iraq, everybody knows more and more people who are going over there... the images on the YouTube phenomenon where the violence is so immediate. Direct people need something stronger to respond to. I think that there's definitely a wave of directors - who are labelled the splat pack - who really, really care about making great scary movies."

People Thinking Iraq
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Eli Roth Filmmaker
Iraq

"'Hostel' is that's how I feel about what's going on in Iraq. There's people that just want money and people are being sacrificed for it."

People Want Iraq
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Dennis Miller Comedian
Iraq

"I would call the French scumbags, but that, of course, would be a disservice to bags filled with scum. I say we invade Iraq, then invade Chirac."

Would Be Iraq Bags
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Corrine Brown Politician
Iraq

"I just want someone to explain to the American public why investing in transportation in Iraq is so much more important than investing in passenger rail right here in the United States of America."

Important America Iraq
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Alan Wolfe Political Scientist
Iraq

"Iraq failed for the same reasons that all conservative public policy efforts fail. Refusing to acknowledge the importance of government while relying on it to achieve your objectives causes the same kind of chaos in foreign policy that it does in matters closer to home."

Home Government Iraq
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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
Iraq

"The Bush administration has created an unimaginable catastrophe in Iraq. This should've been one of the easiest military occupations in history and they succeeded in turning it into one of the worst military disasters in history. They can't control it and it's almost impossible for them to get out for reasons you can't discuss in the United States because to discuss the reasons why they can't get out would be to concede the reasons why they invaded."

Military United States Iraq
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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
Iraq

"In fact, various lawyers' groups - to some extent in the U.S. but mostly in England and Canada and elsewhere - are bringing demands for a war crimes trial for the crime of aggression. However, though the invasion of Iraq was plainly an act of aggression, it doesn't break any records."

War Iraq Invasion
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