Sentence examples for iraqis from inspiring English sources

Turnout was lower than in 2005 but most Iraqis were determined to exercise their democratic rights.

Relationships with Iraqis were much more distant, and Americans much more isolated, owing to security restrictions and other factors.

Around this table two years ago we were divided over Iraq, but by June 2003 there was in place a new UN resolution, a new UN-backed political process to give democracy to Iraqis, which they want, as 8.5 million of them showed by voting for it.

Hundreds of thousands of other Iraqis have been displaced from western and central Iraq in a mass movement of people that rivals the worst years of Iraq's civil war.

"Iraqis run the state, Syrians are second and the foreigners will never get close to them".

"I couldn't give a flying fuck about the Iraqis".

However, Isis would be nowhere if it weren't for the generalised rejection by Sunni Iraqis of the sectarian political authority in Baghdad.

While Bucca had few abuse complaints prior to its closure in 2009, it was seen by Iraqis as a potent symbol of an unjust policy, which swept up husbands, fathers, and sons – some of them non-combatants – in regular neighbourhood raids, and sent them away to prison for months or years.

A substantial plan, not the semi-privatised occupation-lite devised by Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld and compliant generals, might – might – have made Iraqis more accepting and given the ousted Sunni minority less scope for launching their bloody civil war against their Shia countrymen, whose own leaders' sectarian political folly fuelled the flames.

In the larger context, the post-2003 Sunninsurgentsts in Iraq – the "resistance", in Hampstead patois – were responsible for all the deaths they caused among fellow Iraqis, more deaths than the coalition, I assume, though the counters are usually silent on that point.

This weekend the arrivals are Syrian, but Afghans, Iraqis and Libyans have also made the journey.