Lakhdar Brahimi Quotes

... even political opponents of evil governments show little gratitude for American invasion to modernize them..

I think the world is much better off without Saddam Hussein than with him.

Our country is being bled daily in an effort to create a democracy in a place where it never existed.

Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.

I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq.

If we can kill Saddam, we should.

Unquestionably, the world is better off without Saddam.

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein's regime is a better and safer place.

If there is no direct threat why are we invading?

Once we destroyed the Saddam regime, we knew there was going to be a civil war.

It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq.

It was not in our interest to enter Iraq in the first place.

We're not going to spread democracy at the business end of a M16 held by a 23 year old Marine.

Anybody who believes that we can democratize Iran, Iraq and Syria by military force is living in a fantasy world.

The main reason the Americans have come to Iraq is to put down the Shiite people—to prevent us from setting up a Shiite religious government.

In beloved Iraq, blood is flowing between brothers, in the shadow of an illegitimate foreign occupation.

Washington seems to think that they will be welcomed with open arms in Iraq, but that they shouldn’t count on it. It is foolish to think of creating a modern democracy in an artificial country with a divided society like Iraq. Do you realize that, by invading Iraq, they might yet precipitate a civil war.

As brutal as Saddam Hussein was, it was a mistake to just eliminate him. The same is true for Moammar Gadhafi and for Libya, which is now a failed state.

If anything, what happened in Iraq after the fall of Saddam set back prospects for democratic reform in the region, as many came to associate political change with chaos.

There was no terrorism in the Middle East until Washington brought it there with invasions, bombings, and torture.

The invasion of Iraq was, in ways that have since become hard to dispute, a terrible mistake.

Setting aside human rights and international law to have an agenda of war and killing and occupation to me is totally unacceptable.

Being an occupier is not good for anybody's global standing. It is a catalyst for terrorist recruitment.

No one has the right to ignite a war and lead an occupation and armies to conquer people, invading them and make them suffer all kinds of torture, murder, expulsion, displacement, bombing and terrorism by different lethal prohibited weapons and then come and speak as the savior of the people or a defender of their rights.

The world is a better place with Saddam Hussein gone.