I always tell the Kurds who defend independence: Let's say we declared the independent Kurdish state and Syria, Iran, Iraq and Turkey… — Jalal Talabani Copy Share Image
We need to use overwhelming air power. We need to be arming the Kurds. We need to be fighting and killing ISIS… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that Saddam Hussein had and used significant weapons of mass destruction on his own… — Curt Weldon Copy Share Image
So the idea that you could put Kurds, Shiite Arabs, and Sunni Arabs in a nice, liberal, federal system in Iraq in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are sort of Kurdish districts there in Mosul, or there used to be, but the Kurds mostly fled or were driven… — Patrick Cockburn Copy Share Image
Iran is barely over 50% Persian, and Arabs, Baluchis, Azeris, Kurds and many other groups feel left out of the society. That… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
I used to be someone who would not even tread on an ant. But this is a war for honor and self-defense.… — Abdullah Ocalan Copy Share Image
No torture has yet been devised that could get a liberal to mention the poor, beleaguered Kurds dancing in the streets because… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
The Kurds had always had a bad time. They were oppressed by the Ottoman empire. Then, at the end of the First… — Adam Curtis Copy Share Image
I do believe that the Kurds are in a difficult situation. They do have some American support. How consistent that will be… — Joshua Landis Copy Share Image
Iraqi Kurds, out of desperate necessity, have forged one of the most watchful and vigilant anti-terrorist communities in the world. Terrorists from… — Michael Totten Copy Share Image
If you go into Hasakah province in northeast Syria, that's an area that's as big as Lebanon. It's controlled by the Kurds,… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
Where were the peacekeepers? Where was the UN? Why was the entire world ignoring Saddam's attack upon his own people? Were we… — Jean Sasson Copy Share Image
By very conservative estimates, Turkish repression of Kurds in the 1990s falls in the category of Kosovo. It peaked in the early… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“I am afraid, my friends, that the ugly chapters of genocides and the deep-rooted history of persecution in the Middle East will… — Widad Akreyi Copy Share Image
At the end of the day...if your army won't fight, it's because they don't trust their incompetent, corrupt generals, they don't trust… — Barry McCaffrey Copy Share Image
In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds,… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
We are engaging in the diplomatic efforts that are required within Iraq among the Shia, the Sunni and the Kurd, among friends,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The Kurds will not be allowed to have an independent country because Turkey wouldn't stand for it; they have their own Kurdish… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
We need to embed our forces - our troops inside the Iraqi military. We need to arm directly the Kurds. And all… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
While our goals in Syria were never clearly enumerated by then-President Obama or President Trump, throughout the war one of our most… — S.E. Cupp Copy Share Image
The allies we formerly relied on - the Kurds and the Syrian Democratic Forces - will have little interest in helping us… — Dan Crenshaw Copy Share Image
“Let’s stand against the killing of innocent civilians. It is time to make the future better than today. Together we can bring… — Widad Akreyi Copy Share Image
We seem to be afraid to give the Kurds weaponry. We like to send it for some strange reason through Baghdad, and… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
This current government in Iraq has never fulfilled the commitments it made to form a unity government with the Kurds, the Sunnis… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
Whenever a Kurd wants to measure the depth of some foreign leader's commitment to Kurdish autonomy, he listens for one particular word.… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
There's a certain amount of sympathy here for the Bush administration's problem, which is they would like to get rid of Saddam… — Les Aspin Copy Share Image
What we would be committed to would be a representative government where all the Iraqi people decide who should lead their nation,… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Iraqi national identity under Saddam Hussein never truly incorporated Shiites or Kurds. Sunnis, who identified most closely with the Iraqi nation, remain… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
News is like the tilefish which appears in great schools off the Atlantic Coast some years and then vanishes, no one knows… — A. J. Liebling Copy Share Image
As far as the command centers are concerned in Raqqa and to a lesser degree Mosul, cut those off. Do the same… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
Nation building is our central task, both in Afghanistan and in Iraq. And states, nations can't just be built with military power.… — Zalmay Khalilzad Copy Share Image
Every night I get many letters, and after every talk I get many questions from people who say, "I want to change… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
