Iraq Quotes
If you believe that the job of the federal government is to secure this country, it's really important for you to understand that success in Iraq is part of securing the country.
Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not waver.
I can't accept collective responsibility for the decision to commit Britain now to military action in Iraq without international agreement or domestic support.
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.
Public support in the U.S. for the war against Iraq was founded on a multitiered edifice of falsehood and deceit, coordinated by the U.S. government and faithfully amplified by the corporate media.
The United States prefers that Iraq meet its obligations voluntarily, yet we are prepared for the alternative.
In the Arab mindset, democratization may not be an exclusively negative term. But it's associated closely with American policies and the occupation of Iraq.
If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program.
We, Britain and Germany, can neither of us be happy about our handling of the Iraq war.
If gun free zones save lives, why doesn't Obama just declare Iraq, Syria & Afghanistan one big gun free zone?
Look at the results of regime change in Iraq. You can't possibly claim that it was successful.
All you have to do is see the way ISIS was created in the vacuum left by Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama out of Iraq.
We take our international responsibilities very seriously and will not withdraw our troops from Iraq... Otherwise, the victims of terror in Madrid will have died in vain.
We are trying to persuade all the Iraqi opposition to come breathe freedom in Iraq and use liberated Kurdistan as a base for our common struggle.
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.
We have defeated Saddam Hussein and Iraq. The good news is Iraq is ours, and the bad news is Iraq is ours.
Mistakes, after all, are endemic to foreign and military policy given the unpredictability of events and the difficulty of securing reliable information in a place like Iraq.
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.
Saddam Hussein has invited members from the U.S. Congress to visit Iraq. Man how stupid is Hussein? If you think Bush had incentive to bomb Iraq before, imagine if Congress was over there.
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.
Well, I've been to Iraq twice now. I was in Baghdad in June and then north of Baghdad in November.
A lot of controversy over this possible invasion of Iraq. In fact, Nelson Mandela was so upset, he called Bush's dad. How embarrassing, when world leaders start calling your father.
As we head to war with Iraq, President Bush wants to make one thing clear: This war is not about oil. It's about gasoline.
In liberating Iraq, we have rid the nation and the rest of the world from the danger of Saddam Hussein.
Freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things.
I have never solicited nor received money from Iraq for our campaign against war and sanctions. I have never seen a barrel of oil, never owned one, never bought one, never sold one.
Every nation has to either be with us or against us. Those who harbor terrorists or who finance them, uh, are going to pay a price.
Bush does not want to go down in history as the president who lost in Iraq. His strategy to the extent he has one is to hang tough and let whoever succeeds him take the fall.
One of the sharp parallels is that neither Vietnam nor Iraq was the slightest threat to America's national security.
There is no excuse for this administration shielding information about Iraq and the fact that we have great difficulties there from the American people.
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.
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.
We have forgotten that Vietnam, and Iraq resent being invaded and know the ground better than we do.
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.
One of our top objectives is to find and destroy the WMD. There are a number of sites.
So has the strategic decision been made to disarm Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction by the leadership in Baghdad? I think our judgment has to be clearly not.
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.
I don't know anybody that I can think of who has contended that the Iraqis had nuclear weapons.
The same folks that are bombing innocent people in Iraq were the ones who attacked us in America on September the 11th.
When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building.
Rather, it is through conciliation and compromise that we are building a fair Iraq, a just state for all its peoples.
I mean, we're going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as I'm alive.
Right now, Iraq is expanding and improving facilities that were used for the production of biological weapons.
