The strategic agreement gives the United States a unique role in fostering democratic development. We will work with the United Nations and iraqi leaders to ensure that all technical requirements to ensure freedom and elections are in place. I want to assure you that if iraq faces these challenges, it will have a committed partner in the United States. Our relationship was rooted in respect and interest, as enshrined in the strategic Framework Agreement, are permanent and enduring roadmap. I thank you for this opportunity and ask you to help me welcome Prime Minister nouri almaliki. [applause] in the name of god, may the blessing of god be upon you. I want to express my gratitude and esteemed to former congressman mr. Jim marshall for his speech. I also want to give my thanks to mbassador beth jones for her warm words, and i want to extend to the u. S. My greetings and gratitude for their words. Ecause of the development of he mechanism and the new techniques used by terrorists who undermine interests and institutions in all countries. We are here in a strategic important institute. I want to thank you for allowing me to be here. I want to discuss the relationship between iraq and the United States. We cooperated with our partners, and fight terrorist. This allows us to win over terrorist in iraq. All of the people of iraq were victims of the terrorist attacks led by al qaeda and the remnants of the regime in iraq. We are starting a new round of reconstruction after defeating l qaeda, who at some point stopped explosive in our resources. At some point, life came back to iraq. The economy started recovering. The construction developed. The security and economic level, and the political level, despite a disbalance we witnessed. We were able to defeat al qaeda, nd this brought life and union back to iraq. Why do we see what we are seeing today . Why did we see the massacres . Genocide of iraqis. Ome believe that one component is fighting another component. His is not true. All of the iraqi people, the sunnis and shiites, are all killed. T is relating to the morale of al qaeda, who work to reach the goal by shedding the blood of iraqis and spreading terror. Hy is al qaeda back in iraq . The cooperation between our forces in the United States of america, why is terrorism back in the region . What are the main reasons why terrorism isnt moving in raq . It is a vision of the reality been impacted by the region. After the arab spring, which we upport because they targeted dictatorships, no single regime can remain Acceptable Loss governing in such a wrong way for so many years. Hence the revolutions, necessary to rebuild these countries and the people and societies on a sound basis, because they were isgoverned for many years. Regretfully, they were able to get rid of the dictatorships, but not able to fill the void in the right way. A vacuum was created and al qaeda and others were able to xploit it and gain ground. They benefited from the fall of the state structure. Now, we are seeing the region that allows terrorism to the ack. It benefited some of the vacuum. You know perfectly well it is happening in libya and tunisia, and lebanon, and other countries that may have the same problem that all the countries are acing. Al qaeda is clearly far by all countries and societies. We want an International War against terror. If we had tools to wage war, we would have a war against those who are killing people, calling for bloodshed, for ignorance, and do not want logic to govern our daily lives. We are calling all countries to international conferences, and by counterterrorism, i dont mean fighting terrorism only in raq. Errorism is worldwide. Terrorism is not anymore a local production. But it international production. This is why we want indiscernible] it is coming back because of the political situation. We have two political tracks. The political track and the regime in charge of some countries of the region. If we do not have political regimes based on freedom, on democracy, regimes to listen to the will of the people, and to go back to the constitution, iraq at some point in not have a constitution but a single leader who spoke for the constitution. Now we have a constitution and a constitutional democratic institution. We have separation of owers. And independent executive power. Independent do just repower. And other independent powers, such as High Commission from elections. We do not knock Democratic Institutions. Ut democratic exercise needs maturity and learning, and raining. We have to unroot the legacy of the corrupted regime is used. We need ongoing training and development. Thank god we were able to have five rounds of elections. The last one a few days ago in order to listen to the will of the people. This is how local government and the federal governments were ormed. The next element parliament also will be the results of the elections that we had in april 2014 and we will not agree on postponing the elections. They will be held according to the legislations. Of course we are facing many problems. We are facing terror. This is costing us money, effort, and lives. But still, parallel to this, we are building Democratic Institutions and infrastructure, developing services. Had we not faced terror, we would have moved forward more han we did in building the iraqi states. Nonetheless, we moved forward. Iraq is one of the main countries in developing and rebuilding exports and so n. Without terrorism, we leap forward in providing services to ur people. The situation in the middle east has given a new chance for terrorists, who came back to rack on the situation started in syria. Terrorist organizations found another chance to develop, to be armed. And to benefit from the political conflicts. The terrorists found a second fence. We support the Syrian People and what it wants, what it aims for. A democratic regime based on the will of the people. We do not want the Syrian People to lose freedom, democracy. We are warning, and we are fearing, and we are worrying of the potential success of terrorist organizations in syria. If they win, we in the world should do everything to prevent his. In any country, in libya or other countries. All of our efforts should aim at preventing the success of al qaeda and other organizations because they would have a platform, a safe haven, and environment, and more apabilities. It will be even harder for us to fix the problems that they will be causing us. So facing terror, ladies and gentlemen, is not only about ilitary force. Of course military force is important. Security forces are at the forefront of this battle. The developing of capabilities. Destroying all this is necessary, but not enough. We need a sound structure. If there is a Division Within he sociopolitical structure, this allows for al qaeda errorist to develop. We are working on containing al al qaeda in iraq by enhancing social peace and finding Constitutional Solutions to our problems. Of course we have problems in iraq. It is a new democratic regime. Many other democracies way older than ours are still facing problems. These problems are under control through the constitution. We may get angry, but eventually we reach a solution that is constitutional and that is adaptable. This is what you always see. You will hear voices, angry, differences. Eventually we reach an agreement. Internally, as we are preparing to fight terror at the military level, getting weapons, buying intelligence area did we are working on having harmony. You may ask who are you kidding . Some of the ones killing iraqis are coming from other countries. They are also iraqis or assisting them. I cannot say iraqis, sunnis, shiites, are ignorant and can be upportive of al qaeda. These exist, but we have terror come frling abroad. This is why the situation is deteriorating. The situation as a whole is good. There is no problem between unnis and shiites. The sunnis are killed today and the shithe shiite it is are killed as well. Who is killing them . It is al qaeda killing all of the iraqis. Sectarian banners and propagation of division. With the will of god we will remain united. We defeated al qaeda reviously. Today, once again, the sons of iraqi are with us. People again are seeing the situation is deteriorating because a qaeda and its organizations are back. Those supporting it are back. It is leading to more unity. We will defeat the errorists. By our local efforts and our partnership with the United States. We came to washington to consolidate the partnership and the cooperation in which we move forward. At the regional level, we support the idea of moderation. We have meetings with other countries that are also seeking moderation in the region against extremism. Sectarianism and violence. We will have other meetings. In each meeting, more countries are joining because they want to be moderated. We want to mobilize to face difficulties we are facing. Frankly, we need to say that al qaeda benefited from the international contradictions, and from experiences and expertise they gained, so the develop their methods the way they hide. This is why we also should find ew ways and new means to counter the means that al qaeda s using in the region. Help for us in iraq. When i talk about iraq, it is because iraq is very close to syria. The relations between the two countries are historic. Only talk about the american role in iraq, it starts in iraq. It ends anywhere in the region where we can find strongholds of errorists. We are creating a strategy, new one based on the latest development. We have a new strategy based on mobilizing the Security Forces and the people, the support of the people, the clans, the tribes, the sons of iraq, and enhancing intelligence expertise. We are talking with americans and telling them that we need to benefit from their experience, from the intelligence information, from training for those who are targeting al qaeda in a developed and scientific way. The iraqi people are preparing to give blood but iraq needs the benefit of training. The weapons necessary for counterterrorism, which has specific needs, it is not about artillerys. Or f 16s. It has specific weaponry. Aside from the political forces, we need intelligence information that will help us to target the strongholds and groups of errorists. Were not saying the world should support says. Of course we should, we are part of it. If iraq is not well treated, it will be disastrous for the whole world. This applies to syria as well. The international community, it is their responsibility as well. Terrorism does not know a single religion. Terrorism carries weapons, ideas, everywhere. They carry deas instead of flowers. Al qaeda is a dirty wind that wants to stretch worldwide. We want to carry flowers, to expand them at the international level, to enhance cooperation. And peace. We have a request. It is not only about iraq. It is about the country suffering from terrorism. Many wars, internal crises in the region are proxy wars for egional countries. The most dangerous of these are the wars that are waged under sectarian banners. People are free to choose their religion. No one has the right, no one can force a belief on people. If someone wants to force what they believe on people, to force people to eat and drink, to think in the way they see fit, and according to their own ignorance. This is dangerous. This has its own school, its own institute. It has its own school, its own institute and own supporters. The problem is huge. The whole world is suffering from terrorist supporters. People are suffering from al qaeda. They want to live in peace. Adies and gentlemen, you are itnessing an economic recovery espite what you hear at times. His is not having an impact on companies coming and working in iraq and investment and in uilding. We will contain the potential disasters that we would have suffered had Security Forces not eased. Hey are suffering in iraq. Due to people wearing bombs and ntering cafes or funerals. And other gatherings and blowing themselves up. This is what is leading to huge casualties. Otherwise they cannot control one single inch of the iraqi with a car bomb, they cannot kill as many people. His is why they are using those ignorant terrorist and criminal who wear belt bombs and explosives and target gatherings and killing as many people as possible. In our new strategy, we are still discussing in iraq. We need to adopt a policy and mobilize the people of iraq. On the other hand, target terrorist and arrest them. E also need a Scientific Study for intelligence. That is the best prevention against terrorist, even better than weapons. I do not want to be lengthy. Ill stop here, but let me say that the relation between us and the United States is something we are proud of. We came here in order to onsolidate the strategic Framework Agreement at all levels. We must at all levels consolidate the strategies. In education, economy, construction, energy, and every other possible dimension between our two countries. Consolidate them and bring our opinions closer together and lead it into a genuine partnership. The middle east is facing it again. We shed blood together. We need to reach all of the oals we have set in an agreement signed. Thank you very much. [applause] that was a very impressive, very passionate and very informative and very frank. Speech. And i thank you for it. I think we all thank you for it. I have as i was listening, it prompted a lot of memories. S a member of congress, i have visited iraq 15 or 20 ties with. Can we turn the mic up a little bit . I have visited iraq 15 or 20 times during my tenure. Was on the Armed Services committee. Earlier when i was a much younger man, i fought in vietnam. I spent time studying the problems of terrorism and counterterrorism efforts. It comes back to the populace. He populace in a given area is opposed to the terrorist, to those who do harm, they are pretty good at being able to see where the problem is and get in touch with authorities and let them know. That with authorities can deal ith the problem. I was listening to your as remarks, i was thinking, jeez, in iraq, with assistance from the United States, the Armed Services are in a position to deal with terrorists once they know who they are and where they are. Are you getting the support you need from the populace to identify the terrorists . That you can attack them, and if not, could you describe why you do not think youre getting the right kind of support . Hat could be done . What i said previously is we got the support of the people and the direct people and the direct attribution with the Security Forces of al qaeda, the population is supporting the Security Forces. They are determining who that terrorist are and informing us. Al qaeda did something that helped us mobilize the eople. Because they target all iraqis. All of them. Very few iraqis have interest in eing part of al qaeda. As a whole, the iraqi people are suffering from al qaeda as an organization. This is giving us a new chance in mobilizing a all of the sons and the people are suffering from al qaeda. This is giving us a new chance in mobilizing. Many of our operations against al qaeda and fighting them are he reason of information and a cooperation and intelligence we have from the iraq people. All of the iraqi people. All of the iraqis are supporting the Security Forces in defeating al qaeda. The iraqis are discerning at this point because their priorities are they are fighting al qaeda. There are several good questions that have been asked by the audience. What do consider to be your key achievement being in two terms now in iraq . Where do you think you have had some failures . Hat did not work well and why . Well, it is a question that is not easy to answer quickly. I cannot say that i realized anything. The iraqi institution, the parliament, the cooperation between them, everything achieved because iraq was about to collapse. People were not able to move out of the north and the south. Some of the regions were controlled by the errorists. There were many talks about dividing iraq in internal trife. We had militias who are abducting people. Killing people. We had al qaeda. There was a huge battle goingwe had on a daily basis, 25 car on and bombs and beheadings of people and unknown corpses. Destruction of the infrastructure. Everything was about to. Collapse. Our main achievement was to reunite the iraqis and to start again based on our being iraqis and not based on our sectarian allegiances. Some of the people still believe in their concessions, but we are thinking like curds or sunnis or shiites. This is our main achievement. The secondbest achievement is defeating al qaeda in iraq. Al qaeda wanted to make iraq into the Islamic State of iraq, but it failed. We were able to fight it and mobilized the people to resist and get stronger. We would have defeated them have a situation not deteriorated in syria and libya because of the vacuum i mentioned following the fall of the regime. Al qaeda was able to thrive. Extremism developed. Sectarian developed. Also, on the achievement level, universities are back. Students who dime the United States by the thousands to specialize came back. E also had the old contracts that increased Oil Contracts that increased our production and moved our budget from 25 billion to 130 billion this year. These all are our achievements. Iraq was a complete disaster. War, weapons, destruction, everywhere. We stop the deterioration. We stood again on our feet. Iraq was able to integrate its raq environment. Under the previous regime and following the fall of the regime, we did not have one ingle on the embassy. Iraq was isolated regionally and internationally. 17 countries have embassies in iraq. We have good relations with them with exception of a few. We are working on these. We have wonderful relations with neighboring countries, arab countries, europeans and americans as well. We found our role again. We adopted the policy of noninterference in other countries affairs. We are looking for common interest. We do