Iraq Quotes

Iraq was a war of choice, like Vietnam.

I have never believed you go to war in Iraq, you go to war in Afghanistan, and believe that you can deal with those battlefields, those countries, in microcosms, or narrow channels.

This was a war that was based on lies. It was wrong for us to invade Iraq. It's wrong for us to occupy Iraq and we need to bring our troops home.

One of the most worrisome things that emerges from the thick intelligence file we have on Iraq's biological weapons is the existence of mobile production facilities used to make biological agents.

It's really not a number I'm terribly interested in.

Nobody is ready to leave Iraq to be interviewed.

Ambition and hatred are enough to bring Iraq and al Qaeda together.

Earlier today, the White House released President Bush's tax return. Not surprisingly, under dependents, the president listed Iraq

The United States has no credible evidence that Iraq moved weapons of mass destruction into Syria early last year before the U.S.-led war that drove Saddam Hussein from power.

If Martin [Luther King, Jr.]'s philosophy had been embraced and lived out in Iraq and other places, we wouldn't have bin Ladens.

In a new poll 54 percent believed President Bush exaggerated the size of Iraq's missile threat. Hey, he's a guy.

John Kerry will undergo surgery to repair his right shoulder. He originally hurt it when he suddenly switched positions on Iraq.

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.

To be able to live and train in Iraq under these circumstances you need to be brave.

President Bush is often out there talking about the importance of staying the course, and about the sacrifice, but he has not attended a funeral of a soldier who has fallen in Iraq.

There is no more "front" and "rear" where Fobbit-types would go to hide out in safer locations. In Iraq and Afghanistan, you engaged in a theater of operations that's 360 degrees at all times.

Since 2005, a majority of Americans, according to the Gallup poll, have said it was wrong and a mistake to go into Iraq.

The well of public opinion has been well and truly poisoned by the Iraq episode.

The one foreign policy issue that Donald Trump took a stand on was that he was against the Iraq war. Even though it wasn't true, he kept saying again and again and again.

The Iraq fight itself is probably going to go very, very fast. The shooting should be over within just a very few days from when it starts.

U.S. has been trying to encourage Iraq to pass a law that would provide money and training and weapons for a Sunni national guard that could be effective in places like Ramadi, like Mosul

I believe, that there is at least de facto cooperation between United States and Iran, at least in Iraq.

It was a tough press conference for President Bush. He spent the first ten minutes trying to pronounce Fallujah. ... Bush insisted that Iraq is not Vietnam. Of course not, he avoided Vietnam.

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

And now the really difficult part: We have to rebuild Iraq into a strong and independent nation that will one day hate the United States.

One day you're the leader of Iraq, the next day you're being checked for fleas on Fox News.

President Bush announced he has a five-point strategy for getting out of Iraq. Points six through 10 will be handled by the Kerry administration.

The general election's taking place today in Iraq, so I guess that means we're one step closer to being there for another 10 years.

President Bush is going to establish elections there in Iraq. He's going to rebuild the infrastructure. He's going to create jobs. He said if it works there, he'll try it here.

President Bush announced that the war in Iraq has been won. It's all over, it's been won. I believe this would be Bush's first uncontested victory.

Iraq is so bad that President Obama phoned Hillary Clinton and asked her if she could start early.

Do you know who is ready to go with the presidential campaign? Jeb Bush. Jeb already has plans to end the war in Iraq that his brother started. All he needs is a hot tub time machine.

Iraq has gone from being on the brink to being on the mend, and it clearly has some big advantages.

There has, indeed, been very substantial progress in Iraq over the past year - violence is down by 80 percent, civilian deaths by about the same, and so on.

I am neither a pessimist nor an optimist. I am a realist, and the reality in Iraq is that it has been very hard and it continues to be hard.

We cleared many of their towns and cities and rural areas of al-Qaida Iraq and other insurgents.

US Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker and I have repeatedly sought to emphasize that the progress in Iraq is fragile and also, possibly, reversible.

At what point do [progressives] take off our partisan blinders and start wondering whether a very powerful faction of Democrats actually continues to SUPPORT President Bush and the War in Iraq?

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

The United States must reach out to the world community with a new plan to stabilize Iraq, bring U.N. peacekeepers in, and bring U.S. troops home.

When you're talking about Iraq and oil, you're talking about a mess, no matter who's in charge.

My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.

I have not suggested there's a connection between Iraq and 9/11.

I think things have gotten so bad inside Iraq, from the standpoint of the Iraqi people, my belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.

I have not suggested there's a connection between Iraq and 9/11, but there's clearly an established Iraqi track record with terror.

I don’t think that [the war in Iraq] damaged our reputation around the world.

Iraq is part of a legitimate American effort not to have democracy everywhere but to have democracy somewhere.

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.

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

And so there are so many good things going on all across Iraq and unfortunately that's not what the American people see on TV or they don't read a lot about it in the newspapers.