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Some Voices From Iraq War Wednesday
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By The Associated Press
Some voices Wednesday from the war on Iraq:
"The game is over and I hope the peace will prevail. I hope the Iraqi people will have a happy life." — Iraq's U.N. ambassador Mohammed Al-Douri, speaking in New York.
"With every day, with every advance of our coalition forces, the wisdom of that plan becomes more apparent." — Vice President Dick Cheney, speaking to news editors in New Orleans about the U.S. military campaign.
"I'm 49, but I never lived a single day. Only now will I start living. That Saddam Hussein is a murderer and a criminal." — Yusuf Abed Kazim, a Baghdad imam who used a sledgehammer to pound the pedestal of a statue of President Saddam Hussein.
"Those who applauded the collapse of Lenin's statue for some Pepsi and hamburgers felt the hunger later on and regretted what they did," — Mohammed al-Shahhal, a 49-year-old teacher in Tripoli, Lebanon, who said the tumbling statue reminded him of the collapse of the Soviet Union.
"This is the destruction of Islam. After all, Iraq is our country. And what about all the women and children who died in the bombing?" — Qassim al-Shamari, 50, a laborer in Baghdad.
"This was the place where Saddam's forces looked down on Mosul. Now we are looking down on what's left of Saddam's army." — Kurdish commander Sarbest Barbiri, on U.S. and Kurdish advances toward the key oil-rich city in northern Iraq.
"Don't kill them. Put them in cages in a zoo. And then we can use the admissions fees to rebuild Iraq." — Hadi Al-Baghdadi, a 42-year-old Iraqi living in Dearborn, Mich., on how to deal with members of Saddam Hussein's ousted regime.
"We discovered that all what the (Iraqi) information minister was saying was all lies. Now no one believes Al-Jazeera anymore." — Ali Hassan, a government employee in Cairo, Egypt. |
