Iraq Quotes

The removal of Saddam Hussein and his replacement by someone beholden to the United States is a key part of a broader United States strategy aimed at assuring permanent American global dominance.

Halliburton is not a 'company' doing business in Iraq. It is a war profiteer, bilking millions from the pockets of average Americans. In past wars they would have been arrested – or worse.

15 of the 19 [September 11th] hijackers were from Saudi Arabia.

Iraq is a strange country. Where else can American civilians like me be protected by terrorist human shields?

I think the two issues, racism and chauvinism, are linked. Look at how much weaker was support for U.S. actions in Iraq among black people.

Iraq has lost 5 percent of its population, a number that in the U.S. would equal 14 million people.

There is only one superpower now and it doesn't know what to do with its status. As a result, we got Yugoslavia and Iraq, and the situation has only got worse.

It was the right decision to go into Iraq. I supported it at the time; I support it now.

For me to speak out against the war in Iraq, you know - most of my fans are lefties anyway, so I don't really get much flack for it.

Whether weapons exist in Iraq, Saddam Hussein or post-Saddam Hussein, it is a serious enough issue that require that we continue to go and make sure that Iraq does not have weapons.

It would be, in fact, very ominous if Iraq were to be able to get weapon-usable material, hydro-plutonium or highly enriched uranium from abroad.

I feel relieved that we discovered that Iraq did not have nuclear weapons.

One outcome is almost certain. Extremism stands to benefit enormously from an uncalculated adventure in Iraq.

Iraq will spread them even more and chop them up.

President Bush bet his presidency-and America's world leadership-on the war in Iraq. Tragically, it looks as though he bit off more than the American people were willing to chew.

I renew my call for the occupier (the United States) to leave our land. The departure of the occupier will mean stability for Iraq, victory for Islam and peace and defeat for terrorism and infidels.

I repeat my demand that the occupier leave the land of our beloved Iraq unconditionally, without retaining bases or signing agreements.

I am pleased to inform you of the decision of the Government of the Republic of Iraq to allow the return of the United Nations weapons inspectors to Iraq without conditions.

The situation in Iraq and the reckless economic policies in the United States speak to one issue for me, and that is the competence of our leader.

I grew up during the Revolution of Iran and the war between Iran and Iraq. The things that I saw. The impact. How it changes you. How it changes the way you look at the world.

The way in which the USA and Great Britain delivered Iraq to the Iraqis, the way and means that this played out, that is the endgame.

Even if Iraq IS a civil war, people have won civil wars.

The invasion of Iraq was simply a war crime. Straight-out war crime.

The United States invaded Iraq to gain control of one of the major sources of the world's energy.

When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the threat of terror, as it has.

I don't see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that's almost inconceivable.

If we invade Iraq and the regime is very close to falling, I'm very, very concerned that the Iraqis will, in fact, use weapons of mass destruction.

Western conception of history has had great consequences over the last two hundred years. You see it in the invasion of Iraq. You see it in almost everything that is said and done.

The rebuilding of Iraq has been terrible.

A defeat for ISIS in Iraq will be defeat for ISIS in Syria.

Iraq is a better place, absolutely worth it.

We're going to be on the ground in Iraq as soldiers and citizens for years. We're going to be running a colony almost.

Right after we invaded Iraq, I put a sign on my lawn that said "War is not the answer." That sign was either defaced, ripped up, or stolen every week. I had to replace that sign twelve times.

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

The U.S. cannot impose freedom, security, and unity in Iraq by force.

Nor should the U.S. military be forced to remain in Iraq essentially as an army for one side of a civil war.

[ General James Mattis] is a Marine's Marine who has served in combat in both Afghanistan and Iraq.

Iran has proxies in Yemen, Syria, Iraq. You can push back against Iran without pulling out of the deal.

With the war in Iraq, he [Dalai Lama] feels that the causes of that lie maybe hundreds of years ago, and he says, "What we do now may have consequences far into the future that we will never see."

The truth is not being aired in the West. It’s a surreal perversion of history that’s going on once again, as in Bush pre-Iraq ‘WMD’ campaign.

I try to get over to Iraq and Afghanistan as much as I can.

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.

Iran has interest in seeing that the Shia population of Iraq basically adhere to a line that comes from Iran.

No connection between Iraq and the 9/11 catastrophe.

I'm hopeful that after Iraq, those in charge will think twice about taking us down that route again.

[Invading Iraq] will unite the entire Arab world against the West.

A lot of Iran's empowerment is a result of the war in Iraq.

Iraq is a very wealthy country. Enormous oil reserves. They can finance, largely finance the reconstruction of their own country. And I have no doubt that they will.

No one is talking about occupying Iraq for five to ten years.

One of the coolest things was that, in 2007, I got to go to Iraq with Rob Riggle, Paul Scheer, and Horatio Sanz. We went over there to do some comedy shows with the U.S.O.