L. Paul Bremer Quotes

You know, the country is basically peaceful.

While it’s very hard to know exactly how to measure public opinion there, because there’s no really good polling, the fact of the matter is that in all the polls I’ve seen the vast majority of the Iraqis prefer to be free and are pleased that the coalition freed them.

When the new wave of terrorism came on the modern world, which is the late 1960s, early 1970s, I think we spent about a decade, the United States and our allies, trying to figure out how to deal with it.

We try very quickly to show that we are not at war with the Iraqi people. We’re trying to deal with the people who are indeed themselves at war with the Iraqi people.

These people hate the United States, not for what we do, but for who we are and what we are.

There are 40,000 Iraqi police on duty around the country. If they detect an attack about to happen, the police are the ones who are supposed to stop it.