Jalal Talabani War Quotations

It is this regime that started a war of genocide against the Kurdish people, then started an unjust war against our dear neighbour Iran which has often helped the Iraqi people at times of hardship.

Saddam Hussein is a war criminal and he deserves to be executed 20 times a day for his crimes against humanity.

I always tell the Kurds who defend independence: Let's say we declared the independent Kurdish state and Syria, Iran, Iraq and Turkey imposed sanctions on us, without waging a war. How would we survive under those circumstances?

We need to make a distinction between misled Iraqis, those who believe that they are carrying weapons to liberate Iraq from what they call occupation, and criminal gangs that came from outside and wants to wage a deadly war on the Iraqi people, killing women and children in mosques and churches.

I am sure you will turn this sadness and agony into a feeling of hatred toward the killers,

The terrible crime against the pilgrims is yet another proof of the brutality of those terrorists who are launching a genocidal war against the Iraqi people.

The war on terror requires diverse international help, not only for the sake of Iraq, but also for the sake of the whole world,

stand with the Iraqi people as they move forward with the Democratic process.

I will try my best to convince my colleagues that we must have a comprehensive policy towards those who are fighting the regime.

We think that PKK committed a big mistake when they resumed the war against Turkish government.... We think that the time is for all people to choose political and peaceful methods of struggle. We don't think that what they are doing is in the interests of the Kurdish people either in Turkey or in Iraq.

We have no war among Iraqis, ... We have some thousands criminals who came from outside of the country, fighting against our people, trying to kill civilians and innocent people.

These criminals who come from abroad have declared a war of extermination or destruction on Iraq.

Italy did not participate in a war operation,

We are finding new mass graves every day. Saddam Hussein committed a crime by using chemical weapons... He waged two wars on Iran and Kuwait. He murdered and executed hundreds and hundreds of Iraqis.