Iraq Quotes

Well, what I've said is that the war in Iraq will always be clouded by how it began, which was a wrong premise, that there were in fact no weapons of nuclear - weapons of mass destruction.

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

Being in Vietnam changed him [Johnny Cash] fundamentally. He was devastated when we went into Iraq.

No time limit in Iraq; stay until we achieve stability.

Quit Iraq Study Group to avoid politicizing it.

The president and others say that if we leave, it will just be chaos in Iraq. Well, right now when you come to Iraq, you can't even drive from the airport to the Green Zone.

If this government is like the last one, then Iraq will break apart.

Maybe Iraq will come back and become the dominant power among Arab countries. That seems to me as conceivable.

[Saddam] Hussein maintains an active and aggressive nuclear weapons program.

I believe Saddam Hussein's strategic objective was, and remains, to assert dominance over the Gulf region.

The possibility that Saddam Hussein will use his biological and chemical weapons to attack us, directly or in concert with terrorists, cannot be dismissed.

I feel like I partly came to writing through being in college during the start of the Iraq war, and knowing that those issues mattered lot to me, and wanting to go see for myself.

Iraq has not been disarmed 100 percent [but] in terms of what they [Iraqis] have accomplished there are no meaningful weapons or weapons production capability in Iraq today.

It has been estimated that 80 percent of the oil illegally smuggled out of Iraq under oil for food ended up in the United States.

There has been no case made - based on anything other than speculation - that Iraq poses a threat.

Iraq has a tremendous amount of history.

How ironic is it to see a bumper sticker that says 'Jesus is the answer' next to a bumper sticker supporting the war in Iraq, as if to says 'Jesus is the answer - but not in the real world.

Most people are not affected by [the death penalty]. It's like how many people are actually sent to Iraq and Afghanistan? Such a small percentage.

Imagine foreign troops sitting idly, laughing as hooligans trashed the Smithsonian, stole the gold from Fort Knox and burned down the Department of the Interior. That was us in Iraq.

What I see as the greatest threat to America is that the American people will put political pressure on their leaders to pull out of Iraq before we should.

Iraq may still have a decent outcome...but even if it becomes Switzerland, we overpaid for it.

We've given Iraq six months and I don't think things are really working out, so we should probably bring our troops home.

Our resistance to this war should be our resistance to profit at the cost of human life. Because that is what these drums beating over Iraq are really about. This is about business.

From the War for Independence to today in Iraq and Afghanistan, I am inspired by the courage, professionalism and patriotism of our men and women in uniform.

There are guys over in Iraq that have been there for up to 14 months. It has been really tough on them. So any support that I can give; I'll give as much as I can.

We are spending $1 billion a week in Iraq.

The favourite bumper sticker in Washington D.C. right now is one that says 'First Iraq, then France'

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

The peace movement didn't stop the Iraq but I think that Blair would not be able to go along and support an Iranian war.

They could have been removed. They could have been hidden. They could have been destroyed.

The biological agents we believe Iraq can produce include anthrax, botulinum, toxin, aflatoxin and ricin. All eventually result in excruciatingly painful death.

We promise that the events of 1991 will not happen again. We have pledged to remove Saddam. And we will deliver.

The money from Iraqi oil will be yours - it will no longer be used by Saddam Hussein for his own benefit.

Retreat might give us a moment of respite but years of repentance at our weakness would, I believe, follow.

There are unquestionably links between al-Qaida and Iraq.

The world is a better place with Saddam in prison not in power.

The view we took at the time and we take it now is that the war was justified legally because he [Saddam Hussein] remained in breach of UN resolutions.

And the problem is, I can apologise for the information that turned out to be wrong, but I can't, sincerely at least, apologise for removing Saddam.

I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that the intelligence was genuine.

It is absurd to say in respect of any intelligence that it is infallible, but if you ask me what I believe, I believe the intelligence was correct, and I think in the end we will have an explanation.

Repressive states are developing weapons that could cause destruction on a massive scale.

I don't think it's surprising we will have to look for them. I'm confident that when the Iraq Survey Group has done its work we will find what's happened to those weapons because he had them.

The Iraq Survey Group has already found massive evidence of a huge system of clandestine laboratories.

I volunteered to deploy to Iraq. I was one of the few soldiers who were not on the mandatory deployment roster - close to 3,000 Hawaii soldiers were.

What you have in Iraq is not just a society coming apart like Yugoslavia or Congo. What is at stake is not just Iraq's stability but the balance of power in the region.

From 1991 till the present, Iraq sovereignty has been trampled by the United States.

But if the U.S. were to leave now and abandon Iraq without establishing the grounds for a united country, that would definitely be a second mistake.

Iraq is a small but very proud nation.

If one looks at the map of the world, it's difficult to find Iraq, and one would think it rather easy to subdue such a small country.

We certainly would not want to have the same kind of democracy as they have in Iraq, I can tell you quite honestly.