Iyad Allawi

This is an escalation that we have been expecting, ... The government of Iraq is determined to confront the enemies.

This man who dropped the gun appeared to be panicked when the gun fell from his hand.

We see an extensive program of dismantling state institutions... These are ingredients for catastrophe.

These are facts, these are not imaginary things.

It is our people who are sitting in the dark because of these cowardly and treacherous attacks, not our occupiers.

We are succeeding in Iraq. Thank you, America.

We are succeeding in Iraq. It's a tough struggle with setbacks, but we are succeeding.

With nearly 20 days until Iraq emerges as a free sovereign state for the first time in more than three decades, terrorists have increasingly targeted our country's infrastructure.

Saddam Hussein's trial would not be public since he could name countries and persons whom he gave money.

We were expecting such an escalation, and we will witness more in the next few weeks, ... We will deal with it and crush it.

We are safer, the region is safer, the world is safer without Saddam.

Three years ago, we did not expect things to get this bad.

More than 200 million have been stolen out of the pockets of the Iraqi sovereign government through the loss of oil revenues resulting from attacks to pipelines. Attacks on our electrical infrastructure have caused a nationwide loss of power of more than four hours per day.

Today is not the end, ... We still have big problems. The whole draft is open for review.

The first priority of our list is the national unity of Iraq, which is the most important issue for the future, ... The second priority is securing, in deeds not words, public services and security for the people.

If this is not civil war, then God knows what civil war is.

It is unfortunate that we are in civil war.

We should not deny this, we should be brave enough to talk about it.

We are losing each day an average 50 to 60 people throughout the country, if not more. If this is not civil war, then God knows what civil war is.

Once again, the shedders of innocent blood, the dwarfs who have only known treachery, treason and aggression, have perpetrated a new crime the assassination of a senior Iraqi diplomat.