Iraq War Quotes

Would the Iraq War have occurred without WMD? I doubt it.

The Iraq War was the first conflict in western history in which an imperialist war was massively protested against before it had even been launched.

I would have voted 'no' on the Iraq war and 'yes' to Afghanistan.

The Iraq war was not necessary.

Pentagon records show that at least 8,000 members of the all-volunteer U.S. Army have deserted since the Iraq war began. Hey, at least somebody has an exit strategy.

Government-mandated and -subsidized ethanol from corn will go down in history as the "Iraq War" of environmental solutions: ill-considered, costly, and disastrous.

The two policies that Ken Clarke is most famous for are his opposition to the Iraq war and being a very defensible and quite courageous pro-European. These are both policies he shares with us.

More Medals of Honor were given for the indiscriminate slaughter of women and children than for any battle in World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan.

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

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.

The Iran-Iraq war began the same year that I went to primary school, at the age of six.

This war has been motivated by pride or arrogance, by a desire to control oil wealth, by a desire to implant our programs. (talking about the Iraq war)

I'm writing from New Zealand - a country that decided from the beginning that the War was wrong, and chose not to participate in Iraq War.

If the thumbnail version of the Iraq war was that Bush lied about WMD, the thumbnail version of Obama's war in Afghanistan is that the generals pushed him into a war he didn't want to fight.

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

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.

The evil lot who did that thing on September 11 did it because they wanted to create a war between America and Islam. And by invading Iraq, we gave them what they hoped for.

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.

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.

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

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.

These aren't joyous times when we have war in Iraq. These are challenging times, and they're difficult times, and they're straining the psyche of our country. I understand that.

Experts say that if we go to war with Iraq, oil could reach as much as $80 a barrel. Of course, after the war it will be free.

Some Democrats say the estimated $60 billion dollar cost of a war with Iraq could be better spent at home. When he heard that, President Bush agreed and announced plans to bomb Ohio.

According to CNN, Donald Rumsfeld said the war in Iraq did not go according to plan. And President Bush said, 'What? We had a plan?'

Iraq is now the central front in the war against al-Qaeda.

Bill Russell, a famous philosopher from Boston Celtics once "When things go bad, things go bad." The [Iraq] war was terribly mismanaged-it was terribly mismanaged.

The administration does not agree with those who suggest we should deploy hundreds of thousands of American troops to engage militarily in a ground war in Iraq.

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.

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."

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.

I am sorry for those who have never had the experience of seeing the victory of a national liberation movement, and I feel cold contempt for those who jeer at it.

Nothing—not even the US Army—more threatens the future of a democratic, pluralistic and (dare we wish, secular) Iraq than the political ascendancy of Islamic fascists like Al Sadr.

The cost of war is like an immeasurable tremor that knows no borders, its shockwaves reverberating across the world resulting in universal suffering.

Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputate––then spread, lift up, fly.

Genocide is the responsibility of the entire world.

I left a piece of my soul that will always rightfully belong in the desert.

We would send them all to hell! And hell they would go!

Waving from side to side in the breeze, her long golden hairshimmered as she handed Thomas a bottle of beer.“When are you coming home to me?” She said eloquently.

I would add entertainment media cheerleader Wolf Blitzer, CNN’s Pentagon sycophant in Kuwait City, a representative of the neon press, neon being that colorless, inert gas that lights up on command.

To stay alive, you have to keep moving. Running, relocating, driving, doing everything in your power to stay in motion and make it to safety.

I've had people tell me to get over it. I politely tell them, 'How about if I chop off your finger and see if it grows back?

You know, sometimes I wish they would do this for us when we come home alive.

Oh, don't let him pull that 'Pearl Harbor I'm going off to war' stuff on you.

Worry only about what you control. The rest is war.

Afghanistan changed him, but Iraq sculpted him.

Maybe it's time to stop being a soldier and go home to be a father. And a husband for Deanna. I'm not sure how.