Iraqi Quote by Philip Jenkins

Saddam Hussein was fascinated by ancient Babylon and Assyria. He made money available to protect and develop the great archaeological sites. The great achievements…

— Neil MacGregor

“History” has very little to say about this war other than to recall the greatest battle ever fought between Arabs and Persians on the…

— Kanan Makiya

“There is much irony in the fact that Anglo-American Middle East policy, from Operation Ajax, the deposing of democratically elected, socialist, secularist Prime Minister…

— Paul Kriwaczek

We remember the specter of sectarian violence -- al Qaeda's attacks on mosques and pilgrims, militias that carried out campaigns of intimidation and campaigns…

— Barack Obama

“The image of Kurdish blood pumping through the heart of a little Arab boy like Ahmed was not lost on anyone.”

— Jeremy Courtney

“In the late 1950s and early 1960s, leading up to its first coup in March 1963, the Ba‘th in general, and Saddam Hussein in…

— Fred Halliday

“I learned from Hussein how to achieve victory while being oppressed”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Hussein has a strategy. I'm sure he'll implement that strategy, and it would be to our detriment. We're embarking on an exercise about which…

— John Hewson

Kurdish autonomous region of Iraq is clearly a 'client' state of the West, of Turkey and to some extent, Israel. It is shamelessly capitalist,…

— Andre Vltchek

“Iraq’s secular regime persecuted and killed Islamic extremists, and al-Qaeda’s leaders abhorred the Iraqi dictator. The distrust was too great to allow even the…

— Joby Warrick

“The military was supported by a number of prominent moderate politicians, notably President Ali Khameini, Prime Minister Mir Hossein Mussavi, and Foreign Minister Ali…

— Efraim Karsh

Saddam Hussein was not an Islamist. He's not a radical jihadist. He's not a radical Muslim. I mean, he was a - he was…

— Rick Santorum