Ahmed Chalabi
Ahmed Chalabi
Ahmed Abdel Hadi Chalabiwas an Iraqi politician, a founder of the Iraqi National Congress...
NationalityIraqi
ProfessionStatesman
Date of Birth30 October 1944
CountryIraq
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meeting ... called by the U.S. to give their vision of the interim Iraqi authority. It will be a one-day meeting. And the U.S. will present its vision, and there will be a statement after the meeting.
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You may say that the Iraqis are overcompensating for Saddam's deceptive pro-Arab slogans. This does not justify what is happening, but might explain it. Saddam used to give the Arabs privileges in Iraq while depriving the Iraqis of similar privileges. There is a reaction in the street and it should be contained. We cannot turn our backs on our Arab milieu.
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I respond by saying it's always more important to look to the future than to the past, ... The country is in a dire situation. We need to improve the quality of life of the Iraqi people and establish Iraq in the community of the nations.
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My message to CPA is let my people go, ... Let my people be free. We are grateful to President Bush for liberating Iraq but it is time for Iraqi people to run their affairs.
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The elections went well because the Iraqi people have an overwhelming desire to vote. The unions of people are stronger than the handful of terrorists. And the terrorists threw everything they had into this fray, and they lost.
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The view that we hold in Iraq now is this -- that democracy is associated with elections. I believe that elections are possible.
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prepared to go to the Senate and respond to questions.
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Saddam did not have a serious military plan to confront the coalition, but he had a serious post-defeat plan which he's putting into operation,
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We had hoped this delegation would occupy Iraq's seat in the U.N., and we understand this was not approved due to the reservations of some of the neighbors.
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That's a very important policy. The United States now can be taken to mean the removal of Saddam Hussein, and we believe that President Clinton took a courageous stand.
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Without a doubt, I'm being set up, ... to discredit the family and discredit the tribunal.
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People will perceive him to be much more vulnerable now.
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I did more than anyone else in persuading the U.S. to get rid of Saddam.
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There is a bond of blood between Iraq and the US in fighting for the cause of freedom,