Iraq Quotes

The United States, as all you know, did not come to Iraq for oil, not to occupy. We came here only to help.

I don't believe anyone that I know in the administration ever said that Iraq had nuclear weapons.

Within a week, or a month, Saddam could give his WMD to al-Qaeda.

A few. . . critics are the only people I ever heard use the phrase 'imminent threat.' I didn't, the president didn't.

It is unknowable how long that conflict [the war in Iraq] will last. It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months.

No. That's someone else's business. Quagmire is - I don't do quagmires.

I'm glad you asked. It has nothing to do with oil, literally nothing to do with oil.

Our goal is to defend the American people, and to eliminate Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, and to liberate the Iraqi people.

The enemy [in Iraq] pulls back. We think we're doing well. Well, they pull back. They're not stupid. And then after we leave, you see what happened.

As far as the Internet is concerned, we're not talking about closing the Internet. I'm talking about parts of Syria, parts of Iraq, where ISIS is, spotting it.

I think I have great knowledge of foreign policy, frankly. And despite what some people said, I was always against the war in Iraq, and a lot of people weren't.

I was against the war in Iraq.

I was against the war in Iraq.The record shows that I'm right. When I did an interview with Howard Stern.

They did an article in a major magazine, shortly after the war started. I think in '04. But they did an article which had me totally against the war in Iraq.

Unlike Hillary Clinton, who voted for the war without knowing what she was doing, I would not have had our people in Iraq. Iraq was disaster.

Today, Iraq is Harvard for terrorism.

You want to be a terrorist, you go to Iraq. It's like Harvard.

Now, with that being said, we cannot allow, we shouldn't have gone into Iraq.

The failure to establish a new Status of Forces Agreement in Iraq, and the election-driven timetable for withdrawal, surrendered our gains in that country and led directly to the rise of ISIS.

In July of 2004, I came out strongly against the war with Iraq, because it was going to destabilize the Middle East.

Senator Marco 'amnesty' Rubio, who has worst voting record in Senate, just hit me on national security - but I said don't go into Iraq.

When President [Barack] Obama announced that he was leaving Iraq, I mean, he was talking about dates and times and what we're going to do.

In America, every time we take rebels, whether it's in Iraq or anywhere else, we're arming people. And you know what happens? They end up being worse than the people.

Iran is taking over Iraq. They've been trying to for many, many decades. And now they're finally taking over Iraq. As we sit here, they're taking over Iraq. We get nothing.

If you really look at the aftermath of Iraq, Iran is going to be taking over Iraq. They've been doing it. And it's not a pretty picture.

We shouldn't have been in Iraq, but HillaryClinton did vote for it. We shouldn't have been in Iraq, but once we were in Iraq, we should have never left the way.

Iran is taking over Iraq.

[Hillary Clinton] is the one who raised her hand for the war in Iraq and I'm the one who has been fighting it.

I'm the one who didn't want to go into Iraq.

I was totally against the war in Iraq, you can check Reuters, July of oh-four, I was against it, I said you are going to destabilize.

Aside from an intervention, which I don't think is on anybody's mind, Iraq is going to have defend for itself.

War on Iraq runs the risk of turning the Middle East into an inexhaustible recruiting ground for anti- western terrorism.

I'm concerned about getting Iraq on its feet.

The U.S. can no longer be the sheriff for the whole world. We can't be everywhere, and we can't always use military boots on the ground. We have to plan with people who have boots on the ground.

Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong.

There are currently more political parties in Iraq than unbombed buildings to hold them.

The reality is that al Qaeda has been trying to attack the United States since long before Iraq.

I know the war in Iraq is controversial in the States, but for us in the Middle East it has made a great and significant impact.

I can't imagine how Afghanistan's fall isn't going to be ten times faster than Iraq's.

I'm praying we don't go to war with Iraq. If we do, I may have to go back to work earlier.

We like to look out on the world and see ourselves, so we have many, many novels, memoirs, and short stories in Iraq that are largely about Americans in Iraq, doing what Americans do.

The corruption in Iraq has nothing to do with ideas - it has to do with the regime and institutional structures and power.

If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I'm happy to talk to him.

I have to say I like Obama a lot. His record is the best. He's always been vocal about his opposition to the war in Iraq. Frankly, he seems very good in a lot of ways.

The driving motivation of a new American endeavor in Iraq and in neighboring Arab lands should be modernizing the Arab world.

We went into Iraq because Iraq posed a threat to the stability of the region and was engaged in the process of trying to develop weapons of mass destruction and had links to terrorists.

The only person who was a strong public opponent of the war in Iraq is Barack Obama. The other people weren't. So I can understand why all the left is mad, because they're being shut out.

The average 20-year-old serving us in Iraq knows more about their country's national security than the average 20-year political veteran serving in the Congress today.

Would it be ironic if we had to go back to Iraq to rid it of the Al Quaeda that wasn't there before we got there to rid it of Al Queda?

The Persian Gulf crisis has forged a new world order in which the superpower adversaries of the Cold War now stand united to reverse Iraq's conquest of Kuwait.