Iraqi Freedom Quotes

There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never!

While it's very hard to know exactly how to measure public opinion there, because there's no really good polling, the fact of the matter is that in all the polls I've seen the vast majority of the Iraqis prefer to be free and are pleased that the coalition freed them.

From watching the news one would think the Iraqis want us out of their country. But an overwhelming majority of Iraqis support our involvement there. Our freedom is contagious and we helped liberate them.

We've thrown out Saddam and Saddam, dead or alive, is finished in Iraq.

As we continue to fight the war on terror, we express our gratitude to our troops whose valor over the last three years provided freedom to the Iraqis, while protecting our liberty here at home.

We will win again in Iraq; I do think that Iraq can definitely be handled. I think that it can be kept intact.

The world is safer without Saddam [Hussein]. Certainly the people of Iraq are better without Saddam.

If we are lucky, and George W. Bush is right, we are about to witness the War of the Happy Iraqis.

The face of terrorism in Iraq is dead. Abu Musab al Zarqawi brutalized, tortured, and killed thousands of innocent people, forcing Iraqis to live in fear. The Iraqi people finally had enough, and gave up his whereabouts to the Iraqi security forces.

The fact is, beneath the hype, Iraqis will soon appreciate American help and idealism far more than French perfidy. It is never wrong to be on the side of freedom - never.

I think the American people want to see what we want to see, and that is for the Iraqi people to have a free, open, fair election, for their forces to be built up, for our reconstruction money to be used well, and for Iraqi security forces to take over so we can start bringing our troops home.

We can not want Democracy more than they [the Iraqis] do and expect to succeed.

The Iraqis needed to know that we weren't going to leave them alone. No matter how difficult it was, the United States would help them realize the universal desire to be free. Now of course, if you didn't believe in the universality of freedom, then of course, you wouldn't act. I care how they live and I believe a free Iraq will be transformative.

The Kurds were the only people in Iraq who were completely unguarded in expressing their gratitude to the United States for setting them free.

We're told that the Arabs loathe us. Really? For liberating the Iraqis? For subsidizing the lifestyles of people in Egypt and Jordan, to name but two, for giving them vast amounts of aid? For providing them with science, medicine, technology and all the other benefits of the West? Arabs should go down on their knees and thank God for the munificence of the United States.

Operation Iraqi Freedom is over, and the Iraqi people now have lead responsibility for the security of their country

There is no presence of American infidels in the city of Baghdad.

Today we confront the future with optimism from a founded hope for the Iraqi people - in freedom