Mahmud Othman Quotes

We're still a long way from agreeing on a government. - Mahmud Othman

We will oppose this as much as we can. - Mahmud Othman

We have never said we wanted a Kurdish state. The Arabs have never said they wanted a totally Arab state. So I think as long as we all agreed to democracy we should be flexible and meet in the middle. - Mahmud Othman

We have all agreed to a democratic Iraq. We have agreed to ballot boxes deciding everything, We have agreed that the people should chose everything. They've never said they wanted an Islamic law, Islamic state. - Mahmud Othman

Washington is just sitting by the phone... always asking what is happening. There is tremendous pressure and intervention from the US. It had never been so much since the invasion. - Mahmud Othman

US and Iraqi leaders have failed the Iraqis. - Mahmud Othman

Today we enter the fifth month since the holding of the elections and we still do not have a government. In fact we have not even started the process of forming the government by at least having a prime minister. - Mahmud Othman

There are attempts to convince the (Shiite) alliance to leave the issue of federalism in other parts of Iraq (apart from the Kurdish north) for the next parliament to deal with, and also to implement it gradually over two or three years, not now. - Mahmud Othman

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