Iraq Quotes

Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there must be few people who have not felt a twinge of nostalgia for the cold war.

The people of Iraq realize that a stable, successful, democratic Iraq can only come about if average Iraqis are willing to sacrifice to build it.

The current situation in Iraq is ultimately a crisis of governance, which has allowed extremist groups to take advantage of disillusioned segments of the Iraqi population.

The war in Iraq has as much to do with terrorism as the administration has to do with compassion.

If anything caused ISIS, it was the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.

Today you are standing in a position that would please the friend and would anger the enemy and all the infidels. You will be victorious against the enemies and you are causing them to suffer.

One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror.

In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option.

We pledge to you in our name... that we will resist the invaders.

We must win in Iraq. If we withdraw, there will be chaos, there will be genocide, and they will follow us home.

Ted Kennedy says that our policy in Iraq is adrift. Hmmm. Maybe like a car adrift in the water after its has gone over a bridge?

Did you hear that we're writing Iraq's new Constitution? Why not just give them ours? We're not using it anymore.

The invasion of Iraq was illegal from the start.

So the idea that you could put Kurds, Shiite Arabs, and Sunni Arabs in a nice, liberal, federal system in Iraq in a short amount of time, six months or a year, boggles the mind.

The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world

We're in fact on plan. And where we stand today is not, in my view, only acceptable but truly remarkable.

The money the president wants to borrow for Iraq will come directly out of the American taxpayer wallets in the form of Medicare and Social Security receipts. That's your money

Consumerism diverts us from thinking about women's rights, it stops us from thinking about Iraq, it stops us from thinking about what's going on in Africa - it stops us from thinking in general.

According to a new geographic literacy study 4 out of 10 American students couldn't find Iraq on a map. However 10 out of 10 Mexicans could find the U.S. without a map.

For me, it's an honor for the military to ask me to go to Iraq, Afghanistan, or GITMO. I'm happy to go.

Progress in Iraq has always been about teams of people and teams of teams - and ultimately about young men and women, Iraqi as well as people from the coalition.

Victory will be ours soon, Iraqis will strike the necks as God has commanded you.

If military action in Iraq is launched without a new U.N. resolution, Canada will not participate.

Iran is the middle child of the Axis of Evil. Iraq is the oldest child and gets the lion's share of the attention, and North Korea is the crazy baby.

The intelligence is clear: (Saddam) continues to believe his WMD programme is essential both for internal repression and for external aggression.

As I have said throughout, I have no doubt that they will find the clearest possible evidence of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction.

I still believe that the Democrats have it right about health care, education, the war in Iraq and, yes the war on terror.

The ongoing strife in Iraq, and the billions of dollars that the President is seeking to continue that war, give me little comfort that this Administration has learned from its mistakes in Iraq.

In World War II in Germany, we had a ration for one U.S. soldier, or one allied soldier for every twenty inhabitants. The ratio in Iraq is about one for a hundred and sixty.

We did not go to war in Afghanistan or in Iraq to, quote, 'impose democracy.' We went to war in both places because we saw those regimes as a threat to the United States.

Real freedom will come when U.S. soldiers in Iraq turn their guns on their superiors.

Savage, despicable evil. That's what we were fighting in Iraq.

Iran, Libya and Syria are irresponsible states, which must be disarmed of weapons of mass destruction, and a successful American move in Iraq as a model will make that easier to achieve.

The longer we remain in Iraq the more our occupation becomes part of the problem... rather than the solution.

There were no international terrorists in Iraq until we went in. It was we who gave the perfect conditions in which Al Qaeda could thrive.

If it had been our intention to take Iraq, if it had been our intention to destroy the country, if it had been our intention to overrun the country, we could have done it unopposed.

Iraq has no history of ethnic conflict.

Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.

Saddam Hussein... I believe is involved with this World Trade Center and Pentagon bombing. I believe that you're going to find out that money from Iraq flowed in and helped this happen.

When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he meant our nation.

Let's see what's going on over in Iraq. A Burger King has opened up and prostitutes are back on the street of Baghdad after 20 years. Fast food and hookers - they are truly living the American Dream.

Prior art is as effective as US soldiers in Iraq: They control the ground they stand on, and nothing more. I used to say Vietnam, but, well, you know.

We know for a fact that there are weapons there.

The White House was so eager to rid itself of Iraq that it was willing to withdraw rather than lock in arrangements that would preserve our influence and interests.

A woman I loved [Andi Parhamovich] was killed in Baghdad in January 2007 – al-Qaeda in Iraq took credit for it … The memorial service with me crying over an empty coffin.

Conflict of interest and lack of transparency, though they are global features as we saw post-Iraq, almost define Indian cricket.

I believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation's interests. I believe a free Afghanistan is in this nation's interest.

I do not want to criticize while my soldiers are still bleeding and dying in Iraq.

As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference.

The brutal regime of the dictator fell, the regime that ruled Iraq for decades, the decades of darkness. The decades that were of tyranny.