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After the first three days of bombing you realize this is precise bombing. Instead, you begin to worry about when the troops come in -- how are Iraqi soldiers going to react, how are coalition forces going to be..,

Addressing these issues now will facilitate continued international support for Iraq's security, and it will give the newly elected Iraqi government time to assume office, address constitutional questions and consolidate its authority before confronting issues such as those addressed in this resolution.

A free and independent press is critical to the functioning of a democracy, and I am concerned about any actions which may erode the independence of the Iraqi media.

A fourth person, of Iraqi nationality, was arrested late Wednesday night.

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The Oil-for-Food Program was set up as a way for the Iraqi people to receive humanitarian goods and not to line the pockets of the ruling party ... Any attempts to circumvent the UN's regulations and pay money directly to the government are being closely examined and, where appropriate, will be prosecuted.

The Oil-for-Food program was designed to provide humanitarian relief to the Iraqi people; these defendants undermined those relief efforts to line their own pockets with oil profits.

After a brilliant offensive campaign to destroy the Iraqi military forces, we have settled into a very dismal and dangerous occupation.

The most worrying thing of all is if we are now seeing a breakdown in communication, trust and co-operation between the British forces -- who have done a heroic job there under the most dreadful of circumstances -- and aspects at least of the Iraqi domestic security forces,

The most important thing we can do is to continue to insist on full Iraqi compliance with the U.N. resolutions.

Someone who does not know the Iraqi people, he will not believe this percentage, but it is real. Whether it looks that way to someone or not. We don't have opposition in Iraq.

So we could be looking at at least a month without Iraqi oil.

One aim of the bombers is to put fear in the hearts of Iraqi people and the other intention is to trigger a government collapse.

One day I am at home, watching dramatic images of Iraqi Yazidis fleeing for their lives being aired nonstop on 24-hour news channels. Days later, I am there, staring at tens of thousands of displaced Iraqis and feeling a 35-millimeter frame cannot capture the scope of devastation and heartbreak before me.

Oil prices, ... are probably going to go over $26, which will mark the highest level outside the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

During the interrogation, the terrorists provided the Iraqi army with the names and expected locations of their cell leaders. Today, the Iraqi army took action on that information and seized two higher-level terrorists.

Demanding the removal of Secretary Rumsfeld is not going to hasten the dismantling of the worldwide terror network or ensure security of our homeland, nor will it speed the process of turning responsibility for the security of Iraq over to the Iraqi defense forces.

Decisions were made then that seemed appropriate at the time. And now the Iraqi government is making decisions that seem appropriate to this point.

Coalition forces rescued American Roy Hallums and an Iraqi citizen from captivity in an isolated farm house located 15 miles (25 kilometres) south of Baghdad,

Developments are continuing to enforce a very downbeat view on prospects for the Iraqi oil sector. In all, the recently increased number of analyses implying imminent and unavoidable price collapses do seem a little premature.

Despite three rounds of Iraqi elections, 845 brave young Americans died in Iraq in 2005, only 3 fewer than the 848 lost in 2004. Also 30,000 to 100,000 innocent Iraqis have been killed in the wake of the U.S. invasion. George Bush and Dick Cheney are personally responsible for each of those deaths, because they deliberately lied to Congress and the American people to start this disastrous and never-ending war.

Any Iraqi orders for more atropine than needed to meet normal humanitarian requirements would be of concern since that could indicate preparations to use chemical weapons by preparing to protect their own forces from the consequences of such use.

Any delay would have given Saddam Hussein time to reconstitute his arsenal of weapons of mass destruction and undermine international support for our efforts. It also would have been contrary to the president's commitment in November to respond militarily to future Iraqi provocations.

Any decent Iraqi would not do that, and every good citizen rejects that, too,

A promise was made by the Iraqi side to provide us with further information that we have requested.

A premature withdrawal would be a disaster for the Iraqi people and a victory for terrorism,

And the Iraqi people are liberated from the worst kind of dictatorship. Now they are enjoying their democratic rights, all kinds of freedoms, a free press.

A new Iraqi police force protects the people, instead of bullying them,

As directed by the US Army Corps of Engineers, KBR is assisting the Iraqi oil workers in the operation of their facilities.

As authority is transferred back to an Iraqi administration in mid-2004, the reconstruction of vital oil installations will provide jobs, skills and technology to the Iraq people.

The Bush administration repeatedly gave Halliburton special treatment and allowed the company to gouge both U.S. taxpayers and the Iraqi people, ... The international auditors have every right to expect a full refund of Halliburton's egregious overcharges.

a very positive and constructive role in the formation of the Iraqi government.

AWB was prepared to deceive the UN as to the true nature of its contractual relationship with the Iraqi Grain Board.

AWB was prepared to deceive the U.N. as to the true nature of its contractual relationship with the Iraqi Grain Board.

available as long as it is necessary for the Iraqi authorities to continue this dialogue.

Baghdad is bustling with commerce. Universities and hospitals are open for business, ... A free press is flourishing, Iraqi banks have started taking applications for small business loans so Iraqi entrepreneurs can create jobs.

A timetable will help the terrorists, will encourage them that they could defeat a superpower of the world and Iraqi people, ... We don't want to do anything without the agreement with the Americans because we don't want to give any signal to the terrorists that our will to defeat them is weakened.

A timeline for bringing U.S. troops home that is negotiated with the Iraqi government would also boost the Iraqi government's legitimacy and claim to self-rule, and force the Iraqi government to take responsibility for itself and its citizens.

As of today, the organizers of the conference had asked for entry visas for six Iraqi political exponents notorious for positions which are radical, extremist and not unequivocally hostile to terrorism,

That policy was abandoned very quickly, and the military police were tagged with the responsibility of conducting training, which they did. We were not equipped or set up with personnel to recruit new Iraqi guards.

That particular Iraqi special operations force came under fire as they were conducting this operation, and in the process the Iraqi special operations forces killed 16 insurgents. They also, in securing the objective there, detained a number of other individuals, approximately 15, is what I've heard.

The modifications do not really add anything to the constitution. We therefore renew our call to the entire Iraqi people to vote massively and to reject the text.

You're taking away our freedoms. The Iraqi people aren't freer, they're much worse off than before you meddled in their country.

You never like to hear about any reports of this nature. The Iraqi police need to uphold the highest human rights standards that is expected by the international community. That's what the United States is committed to. The Iraqi training is ongoing and that will continue to be one of the highest priorities.

This is for me a remarkable step forward to bring order in this development and also to have the Iraqi people themselves involved to define an economic strategy for recovery and development,

This is an important, key step to achieve understanding between all the members of Iraqi society,

This is an illegitimate constitution presented to the people by an untrustworthy government, ... Our only hope is that we are able to defeat the constitution and start again with a government that truly represents the Iraqi people.

This is the first constitution in our history in which all of the Iraqi people have taken part, ... I know there are gaps in the constitution, but only God is complete. The Koran is the only book that cannot be changed. The constitution can be amended.

This is not an attack against the United States. This is an Iraqi attack against the United Nations and the Security Council.

This is not a matter of inspections. It is about disarmament of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and the Iraqi regime's compliance with all other Security Council resolutions. It is time for the Security Council to act." ()

This is simply a warning shot, if you like, across the bows of the Iraqi leadership.

This is the democratic process at work, ... What you're seeing with this process is the Iraqi people embracing American-style democracy.

The U.S. will ignore the opinion of the Iraqi people and it will compose the new government according to its own desires.

The U.S. spent years and years and billions of dollars to build the Iraqi army only to watch it collapse and hand over so many of its weapons.

The U.S. spent billions of dollars to build a secular, professional national Iraqi army but failed because, despite all the U.S.-supplied guns, tanks and planes, the Iraqi military fell apart when challenged by a band of terrorists.

The weakness could be driven by earnings, or a slowing own in the economy, or even uncertainty over the Iraqi elections. The violence is escalating and it's an overhang for the market.

The White House wants us to have a permanent commitment to Iraq. This is an Iraqi problem. President Bush got rid of Saddam Hussein and that was a great thing, but that could have been done in a very different way.

The White House is drawing attention to this election, betting that it will be successful and it can point to this as another benchmark in the transition to fuller Iraqi sovereignty.

The U.N. Security Council should be prepared to take firm action to bring about Iraqi compliance in the event they don't change their mind in the next day or so.

the United States will respect decisions of the sovereign Iraqi government regarding the presence of the multinational force.

This election is a critical step in that overall plan - transforming the Iraqi government into a fully constitutional one, able to secure its own borders and ensure the safety of its citizens.

This delay will not shake the confidence of the Iraqi people, which stands behind its parliament,

This decision will be taken by the British government, at the request of the Iraqi democratically elected representatives,

This constitution opens the path to all parties to participate in the next legislative elections in order to elect representatives of all the Iraqi communities,

This center represents a real milestone, ... NATO is here to help the Iraqi government develop the tools to meet the security needs of its people.

They should be fighting the effects of flood waters at home - helping people in the communities they know best - not battling Iraqi people who want them to go away.

This is about 500 fewer than at present, reflecting the closure of two small bases in Basra, the transfer of some training tasks to the Iraqi security forces and structural differences between the two brigades,

This is a disturbingly low threshold. It's a real anomaly that reflects Iraqi law but not developing international law.

This is a disturbingly low threshold, ... It's a real anomaly that reflects Iraqi law but not developing international law.

This in my view and the view of the Iraqi government has set a bad precedent and sent all the wrong messages, ... Terrorists should not be rewarded. Otherwise, this could repeat itself.

This has been a difficult week for Jill's family and for us. Jill's deep love for Iraq and the Iraqi people have come out in the published statements by a number of her Iraqi friends and fellow reporters. She is committed to helping the world understand the great good to be found in Iraq and its people, despite the struggles it is going through now.

They've built a little over 30 schools, they're working with the coalition training the Iraqi army, they're doing border security, they're doing a little bit of everything. There's just a myriad of different tasks they're doing over there.

They still have no concrete plan as to how we're going to proceed other than hope and pray that this constitution is accepted by the Iraqi people, which seems to me like a tough bet.

American soldiers and Marines are out there every day in dangerous conditions and desert temperatures -- conducting raids, training Iraqi forces, countering attacks, seizing weapons, and capturing killers -- and back home a few opportunists are suggesting they were sent into battle for a lie,

American law was suspended, Iraqi law was suspended, and Iraq basically became a free fraud zone. In a free fire zone you can shoot at anybody you want. In a free fraud zone you can steal anything you like. And that was what they did.

They knew that their only protection was in the power of the love of God and of their Iraqi and international co-workers.

They are concerned about the Iraqi population and civilian casualties. They are also anxious that assistance should get to the cities and to the people as soon as possible. But of course, they are worried as to how all this is going to turn out, which nobody really knows.

This mass destructive weapons were sold to Iraqi government by the United States. And Mr. Rumsfeld has been one of the man responsible for this sale, for this bargain, for this market.

This is untrue. The ship belongs to Hezbollah, which bought it from its Iraqi owner for $400,000,

This is typically Iraqi behavior. Once again they are repudiating the Security Council resolutions. They are repudiating the agreement they made with the secretary-general, they are blustering, they are going out of their way to be defiant and they are playing games.

This is totally new for the Iraqi legal system and these are not just any old trials.

This is a very positive day for the Iraqi people and as well for world peace, ... Democracies are peaceful countries.

There seems to be a targeting against Iraqi security forces in total, both the Iraqi national guard and the Iraqi police.

There is virtually no protection for the nine Iraqi lawyers and their families who are heroically here to defend truth and justice.

There's an international audience for (the trial), but also a domestic one and an audience within the greater Arab world. (If) the Arab world sees Iraqi trying Iraqi, in an Iraqi courtroom under Iraqi law, it sends a message more powerful than any international court (could send) that a new day truly is here.

At least 23,000 civilians have also died in the Iraqi killing field and the U.S. is stuck in a quagmire.

As we all know, freedom is not free. ... His goal was to see the Iraqi people live free.

As we were being thrown out, one of the last conversations I had with them (the Iraqi officials) was about their illegal work to extend their missile program,

It sends them the message that if you try to help the Americans re-build the country, no good will come of it, only bad. ... Obviously, any would-be Iraqi police officer or other participant in the security forces has got to consider the possibility that he will be killed.

It is prudent to take some additional measures in light of the rhetoric, the threats and the intransigence of the Iraqi regime.

It's a kind of a snapshot. The Defense Department doesn't maintain a comprehensive or authoritative count of Iraqi casualties.

It's all about the oil. It's the blood that fuels our way of life here. We didn't want (former Iraqi President) Saddam Hussein to monopolize it. Money is driving the oil. We need other means of energy.

It is too early to blame the restart of Iraqi oil shipments for the gains (crude stocks), but implies that gains may be larger in the weeks ahead.

It's very difficult for the Iraqi government to govern because the security situation is still very unstable. Among the most pressing problems, the most pressing is to try to construct a military and security bureaucracy that is not essentially tainted by militias or militia loyalties.

For me, I hope to continue to the end, my struggle and life, to see a democratic, federative, united, prosperous Iraq, that Iraqi people will live in peace and prosperity, and Iraq will use its huge wealth for the benefit of the Iraqi people.

for every one that is hurt or killed there are a hundred more that are willing to sign up and be policemen and to join the new Iraqi army.

Following the onset of the Iraqi conflict, financial markets seem to have an upward bias for mortgage rates. However, that's not to say that uncertainty has diminished in any large way, but that it has shifted to a different set of unknowns.

For 18 months I have been working with the Air Force to try to bring stability to an air guard mission in the state of Idaho, and during that 18-month period, long before Iraqi Freedom, they really refused to work with us, ... So some weeks ago I did place a hold. It was very public. It was certainly not a secret thing.

It's not the case any more that there are just large international firms doing this. Iraqi firms are making the money.

It is this regime that started a war of genocide against the Kurdish people, then started an unjust war against our dear neighbour Iran which has often helped the Iraqi people at times of hardship.