Iyad Allawi Quotations

These are facts, these are not imaginary things.

We are losing each day an average 50 to 60 people throughout the country, if not more. If this is not civil war, then God knows what civil war is.

We are safer, the region is safer, the world is safer without Saddam.

We see an extensive program of dismantling state institutions... These are ingredients for catastrophe.

With nearly 20 days until Iraq emerges as a free sovereign state for the first time in more than three decades, terrorists have increasingly targeted our country's infrastructure.

It is our people who are sitting in the dark because of these cowardly and treacherous attacks, not our occupiers.

Three years ago, we did not expect things to get this bad.

should be aired clearly and transparently and such technical problems should be solved in the upcoming sessions.

More than $200 million have been stolen out of the pockets of the Iraqi sovereign government through the loss of oil revenues resulting from attacks to pipelines. Attacks on our electrical infrastructure have caused a nationwide loss of power of more than four hours per day.

full partnership ... through close coordination and consultation.

I don't think it is fair at all that we should shift the focus from the corruption during Saddam's time and from the corruption that prevailed before sovereignty was transferred to the Iraqis to a period of six months when I was prime minister,

Today is not the end, ... We still have big problems?. The whole draft is open for review.

National consensus is being eroded grossly. The government should really reverse course and embark on national reconciliation and reinstitute institutions without militias ... this is the only way forward,

The facts prove that Iraq is in need of a powerful independent government,

We should not deny this, we should be brave enough to talk about it.

We were expecting such an escalation, and we will witness more in the next few weeks, ... We will deal with it and crush it.

We see an extensive program of dismantling state institutions ... These are ingredients for catastrophe.

This is an escalation that we have been expecting, ... The government of Iraq is determined to confront the enemies.

This man who dropped the gun appeared to be panicked when the gun fell from his hand.

Once again, the shedders of innocent blood, the dwarfs who have only known treachery, treason and aggression, have perpetrated a new crime: the assassination of a senior Iraqi diplomat.

The current government said it would spend $200 million by the end of the year. The sum has not been spent so the electricity supply and other basic services have deteriorated and unemployment has increased.