300 Quotes on Iraq

• In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse, lying, incompetence and corruption.

  Author: Anthony Zinni

• I've never signed any contract and never received a cent from Iraq.

  Author: Vladimir Zhirinovsky

• It's true that the war in Iraq opened a distance in relations between part of Europe and the U.S. government, but our basic ties are stronger than that. We share democracy, free markets and a commitment to Western security. We differ on how to guarantee that security.

  Author: Jose Zapatero

• Wars such as those which have occurred in Iraq only allow hatred, violence and terror to proliferate.

  Author: Jose Zapatero

• It is important to recognize the differences between the war in Iraq and the war on terrorism. The treatment of those detained at Abu Ghraib is governed by the Geneva Conventions, which have been signed by both the U.S. and Iraq.

  Author: John Yoo

• The effort to blur the lines between Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib reflects a deep misunderstanding about the different legal regimes that apply to Iraq and the war against al Qaeda.

  Author: John Yoo

• Punishing abuse in Iraq should not return the U.S. to Sept. 10, 2001, in the way it fights al Qaeda, while Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants remain at large and continue to plan attacks.

  Author: John Yoo

• But the key thing is that Iraq, while it's got very large oil reserves, has marginalized itself as an oil exporter and these days its exports are only about one tenth that of neighboring Saudi Arabia.

  Author: Daniel Yergin

• This has a lot to do with the unrest in Nigeria, but also with the production loss after the hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, the decline in Iraq since the 2003 war, and the decline in Venezuelan output since 2002.

  Author: Daniel Yergin

• I think all foreigners should stop interfering in the internal affairs of Iraq. Those who want to come and help are welcome. Those who come to interfere and destroy are not.

  Author: Paul Wolfowitz

• In the issue war in Iraq, it was very clear to me that the policies that were being espoused by neoconservatives were totally devoid of substance - but they marketed it wonderfully.

  Author: Joseph Wilson

• The war on Iraq was a disaster, clearly carried out under false pretences.

  Author: Joe Wilson

• We're like Iraq. We're hiding missiles. We've got two missiles in reserve.

  Author: Jayson Williams

• The liberation of Iraq was part of a broader effort to seriously confront the greatest threat to world security: rogue states capable of obtaining long range weapons of mass destruction.

  Author: Armstrong Williams

• Talk about national interests: When we went in with Operation Iraqi Freedom, some of our allies, Turkey, for example, would not let us through. How much trouble did that cause us, because we were not able to go into Iraq through Turkey?

  Author: Roger Wicker

• The French had an obvious financial interest in Iraq. That's been documented. They were involved financially in Iraq and in some cases, I think with weapons of mass destruction.

  Author: Curt Weldon

• It took the Gulf War to demonstrate that America did want more than one friend in the Mideast, and also was willing to take and make major risks to prevent a small Muslim country, Kuwait, from being overrun and in effect stolen by Iraq.

  Author: Caspar Weinberger

• What we now have in Iraq is a defeat.

  Author: Henry Waxman

• Lasting peace and security in Iraq and Afghanistan will be achieved when we establish the conditions for democratic, economically viable nations.

  Author: John Warner

• That was one of the great successes of removing Saddam Hussein, as we took Iraq out of the picture of having a sovereign nation from which the terrorists could operate. But this war has not gone perfectly.

  Author: Zach Wamp

• If we pulled out of Iraq tomorrow, Islamic jihadism is on the rise. And they continue, as we see in Lebanon, to seek to destroy the State of Israel and seek to drive America back and bring us to our knees. We must stand tall and straight.

  Author: Zach Wamp

• Throughout the lead-up to the war, CNN worked hard to air all sides of the story. We had a regular segment called Voices of Dissent in which we spent time covering antiwar protests and interviewing those who were opposed to the war with Iraq.

  Author: Jim Walton

• In Iraq, embedding allows us to put reporters in situations that would otherwise be too dangerous for them.

  Author: Jim Walton

• There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.

  Author: Malcolm Wallop

• A billion dollars every week for Iraq, $87 billion for Iraq. We can't get $5 billion for childcare over five years in welfare reform.

  Author: Jim Wallis

• If the president is going to use so much language of theology and the Bible, then let's use that language for a serious discussion about the war in Iraq. And that was never done.

  Author: Jim Wallis

• We all know that, unfortunately, the media does not always portray the good things that are happening in Iraq and Afghanistan, and this will be a great opportunity for us to glean some information from the Iraqi women who are here for us to also take back to our constituents.

  Author: Ginny Waite

• Look at Iraq; look at Afghanistan, where at great personal physical risk people have gone to the polls and have rejected the appeal from Bin Laden and his allies to stay at home.

  Author: Gijs Vries

• Liberating Iraq from a legacy of violence and putting it on the path to peace and prosperity will take time.

  Author: George Voinovich

• I am waiting for the decision, which is not depending of me, to know if the trial will be in Iraq, in the states, or in international court. Of course, the decision is not mine.

  Author: Jacques Verges

• Well, I know that 500,000 children died in Iraq because of the embargo.

  Author: Jacques Verges

• No connection between Iraq and the 9/11 catastrophe.

  Author: Richard Veniste

• Were there contacts over time between Iraq and al-Qaeda? Yes, there were efforts made to communicate. We found no evidence of collaboration in any effort to mount any kind of operation against the United States' interests.

  Author: Richard Veniste

• The new Congress needs to move quickly to strengthen the Army and Marines - not to send more troops to Iraq - but to rebuild our capacity to meet national security threats globally.

  Author: Mark Udall

• I don't think so, but it's always in the back of my mind that many of the soldiers being wounded and killed in Iraq are about the same age as my kids. My godson is going over soon, so the war's about to get personal for me.

  Author: Garry Trudeau

• The largest single contributor to Iraq's security is that effort of Iraqi people who continue to step forward to join the various Iraqi security forces.

  Author: Craig Thomas

• The war being fought in Afghanistan and Iraq is bringing about a fundamental change to the environment that has given rise and power to the extremists who export terrorism.

  Author: Craig Thomas

• Most people here agree that the rhetoric got overblown on both sides of the Atlantic before the Iraq war, and it was a disagreement among friends over the timing, not the substance, of the Iraq war.

  Author: John Tanner

• The elections in Iraq are a victory for freedom and the Iraqi people, and a blow to the transnational network of terrorists who have tried to prevent this day from happening.

  Author: James Talent

• Iraq is not occupied, but there are foreign forces on its soil, which is different.

  Author: Jalal Talabani

• This will be Iraq for all without discrimination among Iraqi citizens, or ethnic or sectarian discrimination.

  Author: Jalal Talabani

• As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference.

  Author: Jalal Talabani

• Rather, it is through conciliation and compromise that we are building a fair Iraq, a just state for all its peoples.

  Author: Jalal Talabani

• We believe that an Iraqi founding national assembly, freely elected, must decide the future of Iraq.

  Author: Jalal Talabani

• Vietnam was a lie but at least there was a political agenda. It was the domino theory. Iraq is about nothing but George Bush's ego laced with imperialist ambitions. And it was helped by your government.

  Author: Donald Sutherland

• We have it. The smoking gun. The evidence. The potential weapon of mass destruction we have been looking for as our pretext of invading Iraq. There's just one problem - it's in North Korea.

  Author: Jon Stewart

• It is time we had a defense budget that lives within its means, accounts for what is truly required in Iraq and provides the best possible support for all our troops.

  Author: Pete Stark

• Our country, the United States of America, may be the world's largest economy and the world's only superpower, but we stretch ourselves dangerously thin by taking on commitments like Iraq with only a motley band of allies to share the burden.

  Author: John Spratt

• As I think through the issue of funding the rebuilding of Iraq, I think about the analogy of a bankruptcy proceeding. There is no doubt that Iraq as a country is bankrupt.

  Author: Arlen Specter

• We are not utilizing the Iraqi oil for U.S. purposes. We are not asking that the Iraqi oil be used to pay our military expenses. We are asking only that the Iraqi oil be used to rebuild Iraq - that is, to rebuild Iraq for the Iraqi people.

  Author: Arlen Specter

• Bush's war in Iraq has done untold damage to the United States. It has impaired our military power and undermined the morale of our armed forces. Our troops were trained to project overwhelming power. They were not trained for occupation duties.

  Author: George Soros

• The views of the European Union are fully reflected in this text, particularly the key objective of the EU, namely vigorously to address the disarmament of Iraq and to do so within the framework of the UN Security Council.

  Author: Javier Solana

• The trip to Iraq confirmed that I made the right decision when I voted against lending Iraq the $18 billion the United States plans to use to help rebuild the country.

  Author: Vic Snyder

• The number of attacks on the American and allied forces is at the highest level since the insurgency began despite the increase of America combat operations and the introduction of some 40 new Iraq security forces and battalions.

  Author: Ike Skelton

• The insurgents are Baathists and Sunnis in Iraq who have as their goal a separate and distinct one of toppling the government that is there and creating their own.

  Author: Ike Skelton

• The Government of Iraq also owes a debt to the American and coalition forces who are fighting the insurgency and helping put that country back together after decades of repression.

  Author: Ike Skelton

• It is vital that Iraq and the United States together send the clearest possible signal that those who commit acts of violence against American military forces and American civilians will not be rewarded with amnesty.

  Author: Ike Skelton

• In the three years since our nation began operations in Iraq, more than 2,500 Americans have been killed and more than 18,000 Americans have been seriously wounded.

  Author: Ike Skelton

• Well, I've been to Iraq twice now. I was in Baghdad in June and then north of Baghdad in November.

  Author: Gary Sinise

• You might hold an ethical position that it's wrong to lie, but if you have plans for a war in Iraq, and you want to keep them secret for practical reasons - to reduce casualties, perhaps - and someone asks you about those plans, you may need to lie for a 'good' outcome.

  Author: Peter Singer

• It's also much clearer how much damage the occupation of Iraq is doing to America's reputation and prestige around the world; and that's just starting now to hit home in the United States.

  Author: Peter Singer

• Further, Japan is the second largest donor in Iraq after the United States, with over $5 billion dollars for humanitarian, infrastructure and reconstruction projects.

  Author: Michael Simpson

• We all read news stories about the difficulties and tensions that the United States has with our allies and even with coalition partners in Iraq, but we rarely read about the good news.

  Author: Michael Simpson

• I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq.

  Author: Clare Short

• But then Iraq happened after September 2001 and America claimed that Al Qaeda was there, and we all know that was a lie and we now know that our own Prime Minister deceived the country terribly.

  Author: Clare Short

• Obviously this is the world descending into worse and worse standards of targeting civilians both in state violence in Iraq, Gaza and so on and the terrorist retaliation.

  Author: Clare Short

• Well, let's assume the world is linear. If we required a certain amount of troops per 25,000 population in the Balkans, if the world is not radically different, something of the same extent is going to be needed in Iraq.

  Author: Eric Shinseki

• Since the election, since the formation of a government, the death in Iraq has increased. The United States stands by, helpless to do anything about it. That's the reality, not George Bush's revisionist history!

  Author: Mark Shields

• Iraq is in a civil war. There is no road in that country that is safe.

  Author: Mark Shields

• We cannot cut and run. If we are to ensure freedom and democracy, it is essential that we follow through on our obligation to bring about stability in Iraq.

  Author: Richard Shelby

• Don't invade Iraq. Inspections work, war won't.

  Author: Martin Sheen

• The war in Iraq will end, our troops will come home, Bush will be impeached and he will be brought to justice.

  Author: Cindy Sheehan

• I would love to support Hillary for president if she would come out against the travesty in Iraq. But I don't think she can speak out against the occupation because she supports it.

  Author: Cindy Sheehan

• The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior. We cannot look at the Latino community and preach "one language." No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.

  Author: Al Sharpton

• Iran, Libya and Syria are irresponsible states, which must be disarmed of weapons of mass destruction, and a successful American move in Iraq as a model will make that easier to achieve.

  Author: Ariel Sharon

• Iraq assumes responsibility for its own future... They have got to step up.

  Author: Jeff Sessions

• Iraq continues to be an immense disaster, and the President has no apparent plan for getting our troops out.

  Author: Jose Serrano

• When I decided to stay in Iraq, I decided to take the fear out of my body and put it into a freezer.

  Author: Asne Seierstad

• The men and women who serve this great nation, whether they are stationed in Iraq, Fort Riley, or the Korean Peninsula, or they serve us at home as our community first responders, serve because they believe in America.

  Author: Kathleen Sebelius

• Saddam's ouster will not necessarily lead to the same result, since Iraq lacks democratic traditions. Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections.

  Author: Brent Scowcroft

• Many Sunnis, who are still stuck in the Saddam era mindset and believe Iraq belongs to them, are trying to prevent a new country from developing at all.

  Author: Brent Scowcroft

• To sum up, the position we took was that since we didn't know the internal situation in Iraq nor Saddam Hussein, that our best bet was to take counsel from the people who did know him and who did deal with him.

  Author: Brent Scowcroft

• If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would.

  Author: Brent Scowcroft

• What was the reason for invading Iraq' Was it a humanitarian crusade or an economic one' I would be inclined to say the latter. It was the same with the Civil War, because the landed gentry's money was being stolen by the king.

  Author: Dougray Scott

• What is the first thing we did when we took control of Iraq? Protect the oil fields. Remember the administration quote about how the oil would pay for the war.

  Author: Peter Schuyler

• Before and during the first phase of the war his administration repeatedly maligned the UN but now, that Iraq has turned into a quagmire, it is asking the UN for help.

  Author: Peter Schuyler

• A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure.

  Author: Charles Schumer

• This question about Iraq has gotten personal.

  Author: Gerhard Schroder

• No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war.

  Author: Phyllis Schlafly

• And now when we hear that Iran and Iraq plan to cooperate more closely and that a fundamentalist is coming to power in Tehran - a man about whom we cannot be sure that he is absolutely averse to terrorism - it is very worrisome.

  Author: Otto Schily

• There is no question that Iraq is one of the main problems. You'd have to be blind not to see what a magnet and generating force it's become for terrorist groups.

  Author: Otto Schily

• It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein.

  Author: Adam Schiff

• Our failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq thus far has been deeply troubling, and our intelligence-gathering process needs thorough and unbiased investigation.

  Author: Adam Schiff

• The war in Iraq has been extremely divisive here at home, and has also divided the world community.

  Author: Adam Schiff

• The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families.

  Author: Bob Schieffer

• We are tangled in a very significant Islamic insurgency in Iraq.

  Author: Michael Scheuer

• 'The war in Iraq - if Osama was a Christian - it's the Christmas present he never would have expected.

  Author: Michael Scheuer

• And we've also had now the speaker of the Parliament in Iraq using blatantly anti-Semitic remarks, saying the Jews and sons of Jews are the problem of all the violence that's in Iraq.

  Author: Jan Schakowsky

• Because the Bush Administration will set no timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, both chambers of Congress acted to make sure our troops will not be left in Iraq indefinitely.

  Author: Jan Schakowsky

• I would love to see the French spending money to restore Iraq.

  Author: Bob Schaffer

• Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.

  Author: Gale Sayers

• Before our kids start coming home from Iraq in body bags and women and children start dying in Baghdad, I need to know, what did Iraq do to us?

  Author: Susan Sarandon

• Iraq may get peace and stability through restoring it's sovereignty under participation of all Iraqi factions and sectarian groups, who must rebuild a new democratic, free and independent Iraq.

  Author: Ali Saleh

• Of course, I'm drawn to a place like Iraq because It's the biggest story of our generation.

  Author: Joe Sacco

• Looking at the high cost of occupation in Iraq and the needs we have in this country, would it not have been better to have smaller tax cuts in order to keep down the deficits.

  Author: Tim Russert

• Should we freeze or postpone prospective tax cuts and avoid any new tax cuts until we are sure we have the money to pay for the war on terrorism and the war in Iraq.

  Author: Tim Russert

• I can't tell you if the use of force in Iraq today will last five days, five weeks or five months, but it won't last any longer than that.

  Author: Donald Rumsfeld

• We can't have a failure in Iraq, but we also can't be there for the next 10 years because if we are, it's going to become, I think, a failure in and of itself.

  Author: Dennis Ross

• American POWs from the last Iraq war, who were held prisoner and tortured by Iraq, are now being prevented by our government from suing the Iraqis who tortured them.

  Author: Dana Rohrabacher

• We have to bring stability to Iraq, otherwise we will be faced with a future dilemma of sending our loved ones into harms way to stop a civil war or the rise of a new tyrant born from the instability that we created.

  Author: Jay Rockefeller

• Allowing the U.N. into Iraq will demonstrate to the Iraqis that the international community as a whole is committed to bringing stability and safety to their country.

  Author: Jay Rockefeller

• We were told by the president that we had no alternative but to go into Iraq because of the threat that Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction posed, but to date, these weapons have not been found.

  Author: Jay Rockefeller

• One year after the United States led the invasion of Iraq, the country remains extremely dangerous not only to our troops, but also to the stability of the world.

  Author: Jay Rockefeller

• With our Reserve and Guard units playing increasingly important roles in the war on terror and in Iraq, it is unacceptable to make them jump through any unnecessary hurdles.

  Author: Pat Roberts

• This is the year of Katrina and Iraq. How the war ends is more important than how it began. However you feel about the war, you have to be compassionate and loving towards our troops.

  Author: Geraldo Rivera

• The President, in talking about freedom and democracy, is sparking a wave of very positive democratic sentiment that might help us override both Islamic fundamentalism that has formed in that region, and also some of the hatred for our policies of invading Iraq.

  Author: Bill Richardson

• Any time you have a situation in which you are calling for more time rather than calling for Iraq to immediately comply, it plays into the hands of Saddam Hussein.

  Author: Condoleezza Rice

• Our policies toward Iraq simply are to protect the region and to protect Iraq's people and neighbors.

  Author: Condoleezza Rice

• We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq.

  Author: Condoleezza Rice

• We know that there are unaccounted-for Scud and other ballistic missiles in Iraq. And part of the problem is that, since 1998, there has been no way to even get minimal information about those programs except through intelligence means.

  Author: Condoleezza Rice

• I believe that everyone can appreciate the right of a family to grieve the loss of a loved one in peace, regardless of anyone's position on the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

  Author: Dave Reichert

• We are today, in this country, convulsed by the situation in Iraq. It is an extraordinary crisis. It is taxing our men and women in uniform, and it is certainly taxing our resolve.

  Author: Jack Reed

• Having committed ourselves to Iraq, we must prevail, and to prevail, we must fund all of the requirements for our military. We must do it adequately and promptly, and the administration is doing neither.

  Author: Jack Reed

• If we don't have accurate information, if we are not able to tell difficult truth one to another, we will never be able to effectively design a policy for Iraq.

  Author: Jack Reed

• We're in danger of breaking our army and preventing our national leaders from having the flexibility to confront not just Iraq and Afghanistan, but crises around the globe.

  Author: Jack Reed

• I mean, we've had all these awful pictures from the prison in Iraq and these sort of memos floating around about justifying torture, all this kind of stuff. And it makes you want to take a shower, you know?

  Author: Ron Reagan

• I am struck by how casually we as a nation react to the carnage in Iraq.

  Author: Charles Rangel

• The Iraq war took priority over domestic disaster prevention.

  Author: Charles Rangel

• I think the elections have gone well, although there is so much insecurity in Iraq. So far during the counting of ballots, there has not been a significant complaint. We have to wait to see what the outcome of the counting is.

  Author: Akbar Rafsanjani

• I have no idea what the U.S. intends to do further there and what would be the reaction of the Iraqi people. I only know that the sole option is to leave Iraq to the Iraqi people.

  Author: Akbar Rafsanjani

• It's true that the question of Iraq divided Europe.

  Author: Jean-Pierre Raffarin

• We would like UN resolutions to be enforced, including on Iraq.

  Author: Jean-Pierre Raffarin

• Kids coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan deserve to come back to 21st century medical care.

  Author: Anthony Principi

• We were reminded first-hand of the work that still needs to be done in Iraq on the security front when insurgents fired five rounds into the base while we were still meeting with the nurses.

  Author: Jon Porter

• Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.

  Author: Harold Pinter

• Not all the Americans in Iraq are those who torture and murder, or course they're not, I don't know how many are doing it, I know it is systematic throughout the United States military I think that's been revealed.

  Author: John Pilger

• The progress in Iraq is still fragile. And it could still be reversed. Iraq still faces innumerable challenges, and they will be evident during what will likely be a difficult process as the newly elected Council of Representatives selects the next prime minister, president, and speaker of the council.

  Author: David Petraeus

• There is no doubt that, with the exception of a very small number of people close to a vicious regime, the people of Iraq have been liberated and they understand that they've been liberated.

  Author: Richard Perle

• We've built the largest empire in the history of the world. It's been done over the last 50 years since World War II with very little military might, actually. It's only in rare instances like Iraq where the military comes in as a last resort.

  Author: John Perkins

• And in Iraq we tried to implement the same policy that was so successful in Saudi Arabia, but Saddam Hussein didn't buy. When the economic hit men fail in this scenario, the next step is what we call the jackals.

  Author: John Perkins

• Let's win the peace and democracy the good people of Iraq so richly deserve after decades of tyranny.

  Author: Mike Pence

• The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history; and he failed to build a true international coalition.

  Author: Nancy Pelosi

• Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war, anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime soon.

  Author: Ron Paul

• Although I voted against the initial resolution approving the war in Iraq, I have consistently voted to support our troops with much-needed armor and supplies.

  Author: Ed Pastor

• While I do not hesitate to applaud certain aspects of the resolution honoring the sacrifices of our courageous soldiers who are risking their lives in Iraq, I cannot be supportive of capitalizing on these very sacrifices for political gain.

  Author: Ed Pastor

• In the years since 9/11, more terrorists have been created through this President's policies than were captured or killed. There weren't any terrorists in Iraq in 2003, but there are now.

  Author: Bill Pascrell

• I would love to go back and help rebuild that country and help - you know, kind of like what's going on with Iraq right now. You know, they've got a new government in place. They're trying to rebuild the country. I would love for that to happen in Cuba also.

  Author: Rafael Palmeiro

• The bottom line is that after we defeat the armed forces of Iraq, that we will want to and need to provide stability throughout that country.

  Author: Peter Pace

• Surrender your forces and give yourselves and your troops the opportunity to be a part of Iraq's future and not a part of Iraq's past.

  Author: Peter Pace

• It will take years to bring Iraq the democracy it deserves.

  Author: Bill Owens

• From the bitter cold winter at Valley Forge, to the mountains of Afghanistan and the deserts of Iraq, our soldiers have courageously answered when called, gone where ordered, and defended our nation with honor.

  Author: Solomon Ortiz

• It matters not what your individual position is on either war we are currently prosecuting - in Iraq or Afghanistan - certainly we can all agree protesting at military funerals is a cruel and unnecessary hardship on our military families during their most difficult hour.

  Author: Solomon Ortiz

• We need to make it clear that we will withdraw from Iraq within 6 to 9 months - so that the Iraqis will know that they must stand up and defend the opportunity given to them.

  Author: John Olver

• Clearly, a stable, unified and democratic Iraq cannot be achieved militarily by the U.S.

  Author: John Olver

• In the remaining months, we should focus on achieving more robust international involvement in training of Iraqi soldiers, police officers, judges, teachers, and doctors - all key elements needed to end the sectarian and civil conflict and build Iraq's future.

  Author: John Olver

• President Bush's war on Iraq is viewed broadly in Islamic communities as an attack on Islam, and thus the President has alienated a large part of one fifth of the world's population.

  Author: John Olver

• So a truthful assessment of how America is doing in the war on terror as a result of President Bush's war on Iraq is that we have been set back by decades.

  Author: John Olver

• The conduct of President Bush's war of choice has been plagued with incompetent civilian leadership decisions that have cost many lives and rendered the war on and occupation of Iraq a strategic policy disaster for the United States.

  Author: John Olver

• Americans were told repeatedly by President Bush and Vice President Cheney that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. None were ever found.

  Author: John Olver

• So the idea that you could put Kurds, Shiite Arabs, and Sunni Arabs in a nice, liberal, federal system in Iraq in a short amount of time, six months or a year, boggles the mind.

  Author: William Odom

• It was, however, in the interest of Osama bin Laden for us to destroy a secular Arab leader; it was very much in the interest of the Iranians because they wanted revenge against Saddam Hussein for Iraq's invasion in 1980.

  Author: William Odom

• It was not in our interest to enter Iraq in the first place.

  Author: William Odom

• In World War II in Germany, we had a ration for one U.S. soldier, or one allied soldier for every twenty inhabitants. The ratio in Iraq is about one for a hundred and sixty.

  Author: William Odom

• But I would make it unambiguously clear that we are going to withdraw, and if Iraq falls into civil war and if all these unhappy things occur, we're just going to have to accept them.

  Author: William Odom

• In fact, it struck me when we invaded last year that if we did it without European and East Asian support, we were risking losing our alliance in Europe in exchange for Iraq, and that is a very undesirable exchange.

  Author: William Odom

• The Canadian government continues to say they will not help us if we go to war with Iraq. However, the prime minister of Canada said he'd like to help, but he's pretty sure that last time he checked, Canada had no army.

  Author: Conan O'Brien

• The U.S. army confirmed that it gave a lucrative fire fighting contract in Iraq to the firm once run by the Vice President Dick Cheney without any competitive bidding. When asked if this could be conceived as Cheney's friends profiting from the war, the spokesman said 'Yes.'

  Author: Conan O'Brien

• Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military.

  Author: Barack Obama

• We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page.

  Author: Barack Obama

• Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq's future is not.

  Author: Barack Obama

• There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.

  Author: Barack Obama

• Howard Dean is not the first politician to distort facts in his own interests. But many activists in the party he now leads are puzzled over what he thinks he is accomplishing politically. Is it good politics to contend that Iraq was better off under Saddam Hussein than even a flawed Islamic republic?

  Author: Robert Novak

• But so far, you know who's been violating the nuclear nonproliferation pact day and night? Those who signed it. Iran, Iraq, Libya and Iran violates it while calling for Israel's destruction and racing to develop atomic weapons to that end.

  Author: Benjamin Netanyahu

• A democratic and stable Iraq and Afghanistan are essential to our broader efforts to make no place safe for terrorists and to win the War on Terrorism.

  Author: Ben Nelson

• What is being talked about now is the probability of the Sharon government launching an attack against Lebanon to eliminate the resistance of Hezbollah by using the American war against Iraq. But, of course, in this case, we will certainly fight with all our strength.

  Author: Hassan Nasrallah

• There's a lot of peer pressure to not do positive stories out of Iraq... I think there's a sense that the administration got a pass during the hot days of war and now that the war is over it's time to even out the deck somewhat.

  Author: Jerry Nachman

• We haven't been out in many of these countries helping them build infrastructure. How would they look at us today if we had been there helping them with some of that, rather than just being the people who are going to bomb in Iraq and go to Afghanistan?

  Author: Patty Murray

• Al Zarqawi had a long history of terrorism. He was responsible for several bombings and beheadings in Iraq, including Pennsylvania native Nicholas Berg.

  Author: Tim Murphy

• The face of terrorism in Iraq is dead. Abu Musab al Zarqawi brutalized, tortured, and killed thousands of innocent people, forcing Iraqis to live in fear. The Iraqi people finally had enough, and gave up his whereabouts to the Iraqi security forces.

  Author: Tim Murphy

• According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action against Osama Bin Laden despite repeated warnings from his intelligence experts.

  Author: Ferdinand Mount

• The president is being denounced for not taking the kind of pre-emptive action in Afghanistan that he has been so passionately denounced for taking in Iraq. Damned if he does and damned if he doesn't.

  Author: Ferdinand Mount

• No candidate can win a presidential race advocating gay marriage and opposing the military action in Iraq.

  Author: Dick Morris

• We need to stop spending money on death, the war in Iraq and on enhancing the lives of the people in our own country.

  Author: Dick Morris

• The Iraq War marked the beginning of the end of network news coverage. Viewers saw the juxtaposition of the embedded correspondents reporting the war as it was actually unfolding and the jaundiced, biased, negative coverage of these same events in the network newsrooms.

  Author: Dick Morris

• The motivation for war is simple. The U.S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U.S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich.

  Author: Michael Moore

• The only way the French are going in is if we tell them we found truffles in Iraq.

  Author: Dennis Miller

• America must continue diplomacy, even as we continue the war, to expand the coalition of the willing to share the burden of war and to share the responsibility and the economic cost of rebuilding Iraq.

  Author: Barbara Mikulski

• I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11.

  Author: Adam Michnik

• Americans simply ask for, not just Democrats in the House but also the Senate has asked the President for a clear plan as it relates to dealing with the issue of Iraq and our troops and making sure that we can bring families together in the very near future.

  Author: Kendrick Meek

• For three years now, our brave men and women in uniform have done everything their country has asked of them, yet President Bush still does not have a plan to win the peace in Iraq and bring our troops home.

  Author: Marty Meehan

• The reality is that we have missed a lot of opportunities in Iraq because of a failed policy.

  Author: Marty Meehan

• The poorest residents of the gulf coast were most affected by the devastating hurricanes, and the poorest Americans have shouldered a disproportionate share of the burden in Iraq.

  Author: Marty Meehan

• Regrettably, it has become clear that torture of detainees in United States custody is not limited to Abu Ghraib or even Iraq. Since Abu Ghraib, there have been increasing reports of torture.

  Author: Marty Meehan

• Bombing the Murrah Federal Building was morally and strategically equivalent to the U.S. hitting a government building in Serbia, Iraq, or other nations.

  Author: Timothy McVeigh

• We are particularly interested in the mental health programs and policies that support our troops and their families before, during, and after deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan.

  Author: John McHugh

• The new troops in Iraq need to be Iraqi troops.

  Author: Mitch McConnell

• A free and prosperous Iraq will be a major blow to the terrorists and their desire to establish a safe haven in Iraq where they can plan and plot attacks.

  Author: Scott McClellan

• We must win in Iraq. If we withdraw, there will be chaos; there will be genocide; and they will follow us home.

  Author: John McCain

• Our armed forces will fight for peace in Iraq, a peace built on more secure foundations than are found today in the Middle East. Even more important, they will fight for two human conditions of even greater value than peace: liberty and justice.

  Author: John McCain

• And then there's Israel - a lot of people support Israel, and it's important to Israel to take out Iraq. So it's all mixed together. It's a combination of motives.

  Author: Chris Matthews

• Well, the right-wing policy with regard to Israel - the people who don't want to deal with Arafat, who don't want a Palestinian state - the whole sort of right-wing view is consistent with the view toward Iraq. It's the same policy and the same people.

  Author: Chris Matthews

• We've got to recognize that when we march into Iraq, we're setting up the card tables in front of every university in the Arab world, the Islamic world, to recruit for al-Qaida.

  Author: Chris Matthews

• I really think Canada should get over to Iraq as quickly as possible.

  Author: Paul Martin

• Last year I traveled to the Middle East to visit with troops in Kuwait, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

  Author: Kenny Marchant

• Iraq now says that it will, after all, destroy its missiles. President Bush said, 'Please, I used to pull the same trick. There'd be an intervention, I'd make a big show of pouring out the liquor and then there was a case under the floorboards.'

  Author: Bill Maher

• If the United States leads a multinational force into Iraq without United Nations backing, Canada should fight beside its neighbour. We've gone from being a middle power to a muddle power on this one.

  Author: Peter MacKay

• It's very unlikely that we're going to send more troops to Iraq. We are going to have to train the Iraqis faster and harder.

  Author: Richard Lugar

• The Bush administration also was not straightforward about the intelligence it had, releasing tenuous information that fit its goal of attacking Iraq. I feel deceived.

  Author: Ken Lucas

• The Administration has made critical mistakes and errors in judgment leading up to the war in Iraq. The President refuses to acknowledge these mistakes, and thus, no corrective action has been taken to prevent these problems from happening again.

  Author: Zoe Lofgren

• In a case like Iraq the UN has again shown what important role it plays as the guarantor for protecting international peace and stability in the global political structure.

  Author: Anna Lindh

• We need the UN, to deal with the threats to our common security from nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, not only in the case of Iraq. They must be tackled by the international community together, by strengthening conventions, treaties and agreements.

  Author: Anna Lindh

• The U.S. Forces are winning in Iraq. It is to be hoped that they will win at home also.

  Author: John Linder

• In just three years, Iraq has achieved immense progress. It has had three successful elections in which 80% of their citizens voted, even while being threatened with death.

  Author: John Linder

• Let us also reflect on the honorable service of our men and women of the U.S. Armed Forces currently serving our country overseas in Iraq and Afghanistan, and around the world.

  Author: John Linder

• In fact, things are moving along rather well in Iraq. Nothing is perfect, of course, and freedom is messy work. The cooperation of the three major interests in Iraq has been remarkable.

  Author: John Linder

• We have reached an important milestone and achieved a new momentum in reaching a goal all Americans should embrace - building a secure, peaceful, democratic Iraq that is no longer a threat to the United States or the international community.

  Author: Joe Lieberman

• Our safety at home and the cause of freedom abroad is largely contingent upon our success in Iraq.

  Author: Ron Lewis

• If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them.

  Author: Carl Levin

• Dr. Rice's record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq before the war in order to support the President's decision to initiate military action against Iraq.

  Author: Carl Levin

• The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny and enemies of freedom still exist.

  Author: Carl Levin

• The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror.

  Author: Carl Levin

• The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world.

  Author: Carl Levin

• Iraq's elite Republican Guard is doing so badly they're changing their name to the Democratic Guard.

  Author: David Letterman

• Experts say that Iraq may have nuclear weapons. That's bad news - they may have a nuclear bomb. Now the good news is that they have to drop it with a camel.

  Author: David Letterman

• A lot of folks are still demanding more evidence before they actually consider Iraq a threat. For example, France wants more evidence. And you know I'm thinking, the last time France wanted more evidence they rolled right through Paris with the German flag.

  Author: David Letterman

• We have defeated Saddam Hussein and Iraq. The good news is Iraq is ours, and the bad news is Iraq is ours.

  Author: David Letterman

• The Bush administration said today there is a lot of support for us to attack Iraq. Exxon, Mobil, Texaco, Chevron, they're all lining up.

  Author: Jay Leno

• Like Afghanistan before it, Iraq is only one theater in a regional war. We were attacked by a network of terrorist organizations supported by several countries, of whom the most important were Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Saudi Arabia.

  Author: Michael Ledeen

• The "Axis of Evil" was - and is - very real, as the tyrants of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea knew full well.

  Author: Michael Ledeen

• Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.

  Author: Fran Lebowitz

• I think we should take Iraq and Iran and combine them into one country and call it Irate. All the pissed off people live in one place and get it over with.

  Author: Denis Leary

• Why do the President and Vice-President constantly change the subject when asked to explain why things are going so badly in Iraq? The answer is simple. They have been consistently wrong about Iraq, and the results speak for themselves.

  Author: Patrick Leahy

• A stable Iraq at peace with its neighbors will remain elusive until we improve both the security and the economic environment in Iraq.

  Author: Tom Lantos

• Democracy still has a real hope and chance in Iraq, and true freedom in this country would be the greatest testament to those who gave their lives for it.

  Author: Mary Landrieu

• Iraq does not pose an imminent threat to the United States of any of its neighboring nations.

  Author: Dennis Kucinich

• Doves oppose war on the grounds that the risks exceed the gains. War with Iraq could be very costly, possibly degenerating into urban warfare.

  Author: Charles Krauthammer

• My level of cynicism about the reasons that took us to war against Iraq remain just as well-developed as they were before I went.

  Author: Ted Koppel

• In the post-9/11 world you cannot give him the benefit of the doubt. As a result of our going into Iraq, not only is Saddam Hussein gone, but Qaddafi has given up his weapons of mass destruction and tremendous progress is being made in Iraq.

  Author: Peter King

• As far as Iraq, the important thing is that the Taliban is gone in Afghanistan, three-quarters of the al-Qaida leadership is either dead or in jail, and we now have Saudi Arabia working with us, Pakistan working with us.

  Author: Peter King

• Well, first, the situation in Afghanistan is much better than it was. But there is no comparison between Afghanistan and Iraq. Iraq has a bureaucracy, Iraq has wealth. Iraq has an educated class of people who are positioned to come in and take over.

  Author: Peter King

• We went into Iraq because Saddam Hussein refused to account for his weapons of mass destruction, consistently violated UN resolutions and in a post-9/11 world no American president could afford to give Saddam Hussein the benefit of the doubt.

  Author: Peter King

• Unquestionably, the mission in Iraq has become more dangerous and difficult.

  Author: Ron Kind

• President Bush spent last night calling world leaders to support the war with Iraq and it is sad when the most powerful man on earth is yelling, 'I know you're there, pick up, pick up.

  Author: Craig Kilborn

• As fighting in Iraq intensifies, President Bush delivered his supplemental war budget to Congress. The money will cover 30 days of fighting, then we'll be sent one war every other month until we cancel our subscription.

  Author: Craig Kilborn

• The national unity government will need to implement a program that brings all Iraqis together, builds a happy future for the people of Iraq, and gets Iraq to stand on its own feet.

  Author: Zalmay Khalilzad

• The U.S. and Iraq will work together next year to shift Iraqi resources from unproductive subsidies to productive uses that enable Iraqis to earn livelihoods.

  Author: Zalmay Khalilzad

• Success in Iraq will be a major setback for terrorists and a major asset for the security of this region. The struggle for Iraq is the struggle for the future of the world.

  Author: Zalmay Khalilzad

• We are not going to abandon Iraq.

  Author: Zalmay Khalilzad

• Americans have been given goals to achieve in Iraq, but not the standards by which to measure progress. And the only assurance Americans have been given that we can reach those goals is to trust the President and his Administration at their word.

  Author: Patrick Kennedy

• The United States armed forces and coalition troops deserve recognition and support for their work to remove Saddam Hussein from power, and ensure the safety and security of the American people, civilians abroad, and the people of Iraq.

  Author: Mark Kennedy

• It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priority as unfinished business from the first Bush Administration. His agenda was clear: find a rationale to get rid of Saddam.

  Author: Edward Kennedy

• However one feels about the war in Iraq, realize that our troops deserve our support 100 percent.

  Author: Ric Keller

• And like I say, I think we've got other cases other than Iraq. I do not think the problem of global proliferation of weapons technology of mass destruction is going to go away, and that's why I think it is an urgent issue.

  Author: David Kay

• Sen. Edward Kennedy knows very directly. Senator Kennedy and I talked on several occasions prior to the war that my view was that the best evidence that I had seen was that Iraq indeed had weapons of mass destruction.

  Author: David Kay

• In my judgment, based on the work that has been done to this point of the Iraq Survey Group, and in fact, that I reported to you in October, Iraq was in clear violation of the terms of U.N.Resolution 1441.

  Author: David Kay

• I would also point out that many governments that chose not to support this war - certainly, the French president, Jacques Chirac, as I recall in April of last year, referred to Iraq's possession of WMD.

  Author: David Kay

• In November, they transferred control of Abu Ghraib to the military intelligence command completely; it was, after all, the center for interrogations for Iraq.

  Author: Janis Karpinski

• The consequence of Mr. Bush's and Blair's historic lie that the reason for invading Iraq was weapons of mass destruction, is that everything is being doubted.

  Author: Walid Jumblatt

• The Syrian regime is helping the insurgency in Iraq and allowing all kinds of militants to come in and out, and go to Iraq to attack random soldiers and innocent people.

  Author: Walid Jumblatt

• We are all happy when U.S. soldiers are killed week in and week out. The killing of U.S. soldiers in Iraq is legitimate and obligatory.

  Author: Walid Jumblatt

• George W. Bush and Tony Blair had to convince the world that Saddam Hussein represented an imminent threat. Tony Blair lied when he claimed that Iraq could launch a chemical or biological attack within 45 minutes.

  Author: Bianca Jagger

• Both of our wars in Iraq were, on American television, largely bloodless.

  Author: Bruce Jackson

• We believe the use of force against Iraq, especially with reference to previous resolutions of the UN Security Council, has no grounds, including legal grounds.

  Author: Igor Ivanov

• The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.

  Author: Igor Ivanov

• Those people who want to express their religious beliefs on public property should enjoy the same rights that we provide to those protesting the war in Iraq.

  Author: Ernest Istook

• The birth of democracy in Iraq is one of the great positive changes of our era.

  Author: Ernest Istook

• The people of Iraq are grateful for what the people of the United States of America and our armed forces and our coalition forces are giving them the opportunity to do.

  Author: Johnny Isakson

• There is no excuse for this administration shielding information about Iraq and the fact that we have great difficulties there from the American people.

  Author: Jay Inslee

• Things are difficult enough about Iraq without the Federal Government suppressing the truth about Iraq.

  Author: Jay Inslee

• We need to get our sons and daughters home and their responsibility for the security of Iraq needs to be assumed by Iraqis who will stand up and toe the line for their countries.

  Author: Jay Inslee

• The President's speech suggested to me that were we to follow his leadership, we will be in Iraq not for months, but for years. I also hope I am wrong on this.

  Author: Daniel Inouye

• Iraq is not about oil.

  Author: Bobby Inman

• As we continue to make great progress in the war on terror, now more than ever, it is important that members of the international community stand-by and bolster the efforts of the emerging diplomatic leaders in Iraq and Afghanistan.

  Author: James Inhofe

• We can be proud of our record as an international beacon of liberty. From fostering democracies in Eastern Europe to the stabilization of Iraq and Afghanistan, we have been true to that calling and helped spread freedom to oppressed peoples everywhere.

  Author: Kay Hutchison

• The true credit for our safety and security goes to our men and women who are serving in places like Iraq and Afghanistan in the global war on terrorism.

  Author: Asa Hutchinson

• If you are Iraqi, you know who I am... and you know that I do not tire. I am the president of Iraq and I refuse to answer these questions because this court is illegitimate.

  Author: Saddam Hussein

• I said I'm the president of Iraq... I did not say deposed.

  Author: Saddam Hussein

• We are ready to sacrifice our souls, our children and our families so as not to give up Iraq. We say this so no one will think that America is capable of breaking the will of the Iraqis with its weapons.

  Author: Saddam Hussein

• No military timetable should compel war when a successful outcome, namely a disarmed Iraq may be feasible without war, for example by allowing more time to the UN inspectors.

  Author: Douglas Hurd

• It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq.

  Author: Douglas Hurd

• We, Britain and Germany, can neither of us be happy about our handling of the Iraq war.

  Author: Douglas Hurd

• A genuinely democratic Iraq might well act as a fresh spur.

  Author: Douglas Hurd

• Our nation must manage significant national security challenges over the next several years. We are already facing a potential conflict with Iraq, new challenges on the Korean peninsula, and key decisions in the president's plans to transform the military.

  Author: Duncan Hunter

• In the case of Iraq, notwithstanding the violence there at the moment, the very fact that a hideous regime - responsible for genocide, for the use of chemical and biological weapons, aggression against two neighbors - has been removed in itself is a positive development.

  Author: Jose Horta

• It was stunning actually, because what you would hope for from our national leaders is some reflection, some understanding that the situation that we encountered in Iraq was not what we expected, that it was not what he said it would be.

  Author: Chris Hollen

• As we get closer to the end of this Congress, we should be addressing the urgent needs of the American people - the war in Iraq, affordable health care, a sensible energy policy, quality education for our children, retirement security, and a sound and fair fiscal policy.

  Author: Chris Hollen

• I have been to Iraq on a number of occasions. I was with the first group that went in.

  Author: Robin Hayes

• Leaving Iraq without military assistance during its transition, and before it is stable enough to ensure its own citizens' security, would pose a tremendous risk. We must complete our mission.

  Author: Doc Hastings

• The road ahead is not easy. Iraq is currently the center of the war on terror.

  Author: Doc Hastings

• If today is anything like the typical day of the past 3 years, three American soldiers will die in Iraq or Afghanistan, the Taliban will get a little stronger in Afghanistan and the civil war will continue to be enhanced in Iraq.

  Author: Alcee Hastings

• When Bush first got elected, the very first time there was talk of going to war with Iraq, the mainstream media gave his position total credibility. I didn't get it then, and I don't get it now.

  Author: Ed Harris

• The Committee's review of a series of intelligence shortcomings, to include intelligence prior to 9/11 and the pre-war intelligence on Iraq, clearly reveal how vital a diverse intelligence workforce is to our national security.

  Author: Jane Harman

• Syria is a terrorist state by any definition and is so classified by the State Department. I happen to think Iran is too. Iraq, Iran, Syria, they're all involved.

  Author: Alexander Haig

• Of course, it's imperative that we stabilize Iraq and quickly reduce our armed role there.

  Author: David Hackworth

• No one in this body wants to see terrorism and the rule of force prevail in Iraq. Some on the other side say otherwise, but I believe they know better.

  Author: Raul Grijalva

• The American people have decided that it was a mistake to choose to go to war in Iraq.

  Author: Raul Grijalva

• Bringing the troops home is necessary not just for the future of Iraq, but also for the people of the United States. We must stop the hemorrhaging of tax dollars that could go to meet our Nation's vital domestic needs.

  Author: Raul Grijalva

• This war of choice in Iraq is undermining the very fabric of American society.

  Author: Raul Grijalva

• While this debate today is a belated effort to inform the American people, it is nevertheless an empty gesture. It is time to admit our mistake in Iraq and begin to bring our troops home with honor.

  Author: Raul Grijalva

• Surely no issue unites us more than our appreciation for our military personnel who are bringing aid to devastated countries, defending us against terrorism, and fighting to make a free election possible in Iraq.

  Author: Christine Gregoire

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