Mouaid Al-Ubaidi Quotes

President Bush spent last night calling world leaders to support the war with Iraq and it is sad when the most powerful man on earth is yelling, 'I know you're there, pick up, pick up.

The so-called world order is a criminal world order led by America, whom we call upon Allah to humiliate.

America has wearied of Middle East War.

America remains the indispensable nation. There are times when America, and only America, can make a difference between war and peace, between freedom and repression.

We speak of the United States as a “benign hegemony”.

I wanted to fight in the Iraq war because I felt like I had an obligation as a human being to help free people from oppression.

So long as there is imperialism in the world, a permanent peace is impossible.

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.

War on terrorism defines the central preoccupation of the United States in the world today, and it does reflect in my view a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy of the world's first superpower, of a great democracy, with genuinely idealistic traditions.

America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children.

We must settle our accounts with great and superpowers, and show them that we can take on the whole world ideology, despite all the painful problems that face us.

The best American internationalists reject the idea that their nation holds a global copyright that gives it a mandate to churn out replicas dotting the world.

Probably the biggest thing about the shaping of our future is that it won’t be shaped in the United States.

The United States now has as its goal much more than simply containing Soviet expansionism. We seek the integration of the Soviet Union into the communlty of nations.... Ultimately, our objective is to welcome the Soviet Union back into the world order.

Engagement is better than non-engagement except in the case of some really horrible countries.

We live in the age of the American empire.

I'll take the American empire any day over the empire of … "Islamic fascism." I'm not against fighting this enemy — it is an enemy and I'm not a pacifist.

Iraq and Afghanistan are now democracies and they are allies in the cause of freedom and peace.

Though no one wants war, Congress needed to give the President the authority he needs to protect America while encouraging the use of diplomacy and negotiations to try and arrive at a peaceful solution to this problem.

American foreign policy, for all its shortcomings, has underpinned political stability around the world.

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

Americans are not intrinsically imperial, but we ended up dominant by default: Europe disappeared after the Second World War, the Soviet Union disappeared in 1991, so here we are.

So, this war is against the Islam that the West does not control.

The President of the United States thinks that for the Japanese opium is more dangerous than war.

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.