Jalal Talabani
Jalal Talabani
Jalal Talabaniis an Iraqi Kurdish politician who served as the sixth President of Iraq from 2005 to 2014. He was the first non-Arab president of Iraq, although Abdul Karim Qasim was of partial Kurdish heritage. He is known as "Mam Jalal" meaning "uncle Jalal" among Kurdish people...
NationalityIraqi
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth12 November 1933
CountryIraq
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What do you want us to do, go kiss them?
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There is no basis for the phantom claims that the Kurds intend to form their own independent state.
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There is no excuse or justification for the Sunni brothers to boycott after we accepted all their demands and suggestions without changing a letter in them, ... Their task now is to participate with us and vote 'yes' for the constitution, and cooperate with us to fight terrorism and the people who want to destroy the country.
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There is no excuse for Arab Sunnis to boycott the vote now that we have responded to all their demands and suggestions,
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But, we must understand this reality-the leadership of any people is responsible for their own policy, and must not put responsibility on the shoulders of others.
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But those who are pro-Saddam are very difficult to reach agreement with, because they are still dreaming to bring back the dictatorship, which is of course refused by the big majority of the Iraqi people.
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build the new Iraqi state on democracy and freedom.
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but everybody had reservations. This is part of democracy. If the people do not approve it, we will draft another constitution.
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If there would be a necessity, why not? The Americans have in many places military bases.
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I have good news for the Iraqi people on this historic day. An agreement has been reached on amendments to the draft constitution,
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I did not say that the British troops will pull out because I am not the commander-in-chief of the British military,
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We support the principle of democratic change, even with American assistance.
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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.
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Today, Iraq is facing one of the most brutal campaigns of terror at the hands of the forces of darkness,