History will eventually depict as legitimate the efforts of the Iraqi resistance to destabilise and defeat the American occupation forces and their imposed Iraqi collaborationist government.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Iraq has a tremendous amount of history.
The historic lesson is that it was a strategic failure to go into Iraq. History will not be and should not be kind with that decision.
History has been the history of warfare.
We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page.
There's a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.
Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.
You think history is going to remember the United States as a great democracy? No, they're going to think of us as a nation that became addicted to war. They'll call us warlords.
As the Iraqi people better understand that Saddam Hussein and his regime are history, it is my hope that they will get behind the coalition effort to help them create a democratic government and rebuild their country.
The advent of self-government for the Iraqi people is a watershed moment in their history.
It's what the Iraqi people are going through right now. They have encountered a victorious, hostile force-but, you know, there they still are. There their culture is, there their history is, they're not going anywhere.