A: All the people asking this question. Why do you always compare, either you choose Saddam or you choose the occupation? We have a third choice ... For me, I do not prefer Saddam to return, but many people now after what they are suffering from, maybe they start to be comparing. What we got? At least we had safety. Security. We were safe. Regardless of what you think of him, at least we were safe. We are not safe now, and that's number one. Food doesn't do you any good, water doesn't do you any good, if you can't sit in your own house and be secure.

A: The Iraqi people. They govern themselves by themselves. Why the occupation? We have governed ourselves for long, long years. ... Saddam has many faults, but that does not mean the occupier is better than him.

A: I think you are not seeing the bad pictures that the government of the United States do not want you to see. How your soldiers are suffering. They don't want the American people to see these pictures. How huge is the destruction for the cities, for the schools, for the hospitals. We have no electricity for a doctor to make an operation. He works under a candle. This can't be acceptable in this century. This is the freedom they promised us? This is the new democracy they want us to have? It's very difficult.

A: I can give you an idea of the simple people, the majority of people. All of them say, "America say I will come to give you freedom to get the regime of Saddam away," and we are grateful for it. But what we got after three years? No electricity, no water, no medical care, no education and even not a good government.

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