Muqtada Al-Sader Quotes

Whether you think we belong in Iraq or not, we can’t tune it out.

The war in Iraq was unwinnable.

I supported the Iraq resolution, but that was not an approval of war in Iraq and certainly was not approval for an occupation of Iraq.

We came to Iraq to liberate them and to make our world a safer place.

I do not wish a foreign army to spill the blood of my people.

I woke up and all I could see was Iraqis standing all around me, looking down upon me. I knew at that moment something terrible had happened and I wasn't in the right place.

War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

I also argued before the war that the administration was underestimating Arab nationalism and Iraqi nationalism, that it was not going to be as easy to rule Iraq as they thought.

A state under aerial bombardment need only survive until the bombardment stops. A state under occupation … risks never regaining control of its territory.

Every Army of liberation has a half-life beyond which it turns into an Army of occupation.

When the militias came to Wau, they would blast out 'Thriller' as they moved down the dirt streets.

Our main goal as Iraqi people is to drive the occupation out in any way.

These people are trying to shake the will of the Iraqi citizens, and they want us to leave...I think the world would be better off if we did leave.

President Bush has delivered a new resolution to the U.N. saying that Saddam has failed to cooperate with U.N. resolutions, freeing us to get our war on. Don't mess with us France, or we'll send Jerry Lewis to Iraq as a human shield.

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.

You just have to come to grips with the fact that people don't like to be invaded or bombed by anybody. And America has been engaged in that.

The invasion of Iraq was simply a war crime. Straight-out war crime.

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

I think people would be up in arms. I think we would most likely have a similar situation to what happened in the 60s. I don't know if it would be as violent, I think it would be difficult to say that. But I think that, from what I can understand, our nation as a whole is largely against the war as it stands.

On the Vietnam War: I've lived under situations where every decent man declared war first and I've lived under situations where you don't declare war. We've been flexible enough to kill people without declaring war.

I voted to send people to war.

War had the effect of encouraging people to try to stay alive. Poverty, too. Survival was simply too hard-won to be given up lightly.

war is not just a victory or loss ... People die.

Iraqis are sick of foreign people coming in their country and trying to destabilize their country.

They are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property, and lives of their people.