Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession.
Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another.
Justice for the major perpetrators cannot be separated from the vindication of the rights of the individual victim.
This will be Iraq for all without discrimination among Iraqi citizens, or ethnic or sectarian discrimination.
The justice of our cause must be reflected in the manner in which we rectify the crimes of the past.
I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized.