Ahmed Chalabi Quotes

"When America treats its friends this way, then they are in big trouble."

"Without a doubt, I'm being set up, ... to discredit the family and discredit the tribunal."

"My response to this is that this sentence is unjust, and it's ill-founded and based on falsehood,"

"There is a bond of blood between Iraq and the US in fighting for the cause of freedom,"

"We look forward for cooperation with the U.N. in establishing and drafting a constitution,"

"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,"

"The view that we hold in Iraq now is this -- that democracy is associated with elections. I believe that elections are possible."

"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."

"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."

"The intelligence agencies of the United States say they have a five-year plan - that we must develop new sources of human intelligence and infrastructure inside Iraq, before we can do anything about the regime. That's a long process. Essentially, they say, don't do anything now."

"I'm going back to confront those lies,"

"Patriotism is not a piece of paper. Had we wanted to live in other countries, we would have stayed there. But we came to Iraq."