Muqtada al Sadr Quotes

Nor should the U.S. military be forced to remain in Iraq essentially as an army for one side of a civil war.

Insurgencies have a way of going on for a long time historically.

Can a foreign army, particularly with a vastly different culture, be a successful counterinsurgent?

If anything, prolonged overseas military presence breeds radicalization.

When a country is invaded and attacked and people resist it's important to speak up and to say they have the right to resist and to defend their right to resist.

I think the behavior of the troops has been a huge factor in the rise of the insurgency and in the rise of the anti-American feelings there[in Iraq].

American troops have not only occupied Ulster but are arriving in increasing numbers in England.

Unlike the Afghans and Iraqis, the South Korean people solidly supported the American military presence, which was part of a United Nations operation.

The presence of American troops is fueling the insurgency in Iraq, as acknowledged by General Casey and numerous other experts, and is helping terrorist recruiters build their numbers across the globe.

People have the right to defend their country from foreign occupiers, and people have the right to defend their country from invaders who are destroying their country.

Stand your ground. Don’t fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here!

A government needs 100 soldiers for every guerilla it faces.

Guerrilla troops, especially when supported by much of the population, [can] hold a colonial army at bay.

Arm yourselves! Return home and kill every goddamned mine guard on the creeks.

Someone should tell the president that U.S. forces would need to be in Iraq for two to five years, and they will not have an easy time there.

I am a very peaceful man. I love people and am known for my gregarious personality. However, if you try to confiscate my guns, I will feel compelled to give them to you, one bullet at a time.

If they don't behave themselves in the South, it will be shots across the border

We cannot prevent rebels from entering cities and burning property..

It isn't true, in any conventional meaning of the term, that the United States or its NATO partners 'invaded' Afghanistan.

There is no presence of the American columns in the city of Baghdad at all. We besieged them and we killed most of them.

The most foreign fighters in Iraq are wearing British and American uniforms. The level of self-delusion is bordering frankly on the racist. The vast majority of the people of Iraq are against the occupation of Iraq by the American and British forces.

To make war upon rebellion is messy and slow, like eating soup with a knife.

We don't kill Iraqis - our hands do not kill Iraqis. But we target only the occupier with all the means of resistance.

We are very fortunate to have someone else's weapons stationed on our soil, to fight those targeted on us.

Revolutions are not made with literature. Revolutions equal gunfire.