Famous Quotes & Sayings

Seymour Hersh

And then, of course, Bush won reelection, with everything out there, all of our complaints, all of the issues, all of the troubles with Iraq. So where are we? Bush certainly sees himself as having been given an endorsement. He was asked about accountability in an interview, about why Rumsfeld, Rice, and Wolfowitz have been promoted, these people who led us into the debacle in Iraq. Bush said there was accountability - it was the election. So there we are.

Tulsi Gabbard

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.

Marco Rubio

The world is a better place because Saddam Hussein does not in Iraq.

Tony Blair

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

Tony Blair

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

Tony Blair

The Iraq Survey Group has already found massive evidence of a huge system of clandestine laboratories, workings by scientists, plans to develop long range ballistic missiles.

Tony Blair

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

Tony Blair

I don't concede it at all that the intelligence at the time was wrong.

Tony Blair

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

Tony Blair

There are unquestionably links between al Qaida and Iraq.

Tony Blair

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.

Tony Blair

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

Tom Brokaw

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

Rosanne Cash

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

Tom Lantos

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

Richard Armitage

But finding these 16 warheads just raises a basic question: Where are the other 29,984? Because that is how many empty chemical warheads the U.N. Special Commission estimated he had - and he has never accounted for.

Richard Armitage

Our President feels, and apparently many in the United Nations Security Council feel, that it is necessary to disarm Iraq before Iraq can again use weapons of mass destruction on her neighbors or she makes some liaison with terrorists who will use these weapons either against Iraq's neighbors or ourselves.

Richard Armitage

The CIA estimates that Iraq probably has a few hundred metric tons of chemical weapons agents, for mustard gas, sarin, and other deadly concoctions. This is addition to an extensive capacity to produce biological weapons, including anthrax and ricin, which is fatal within 24 to 36 hours of exposure.

Kofi Annan

The invasion and occupation of Iraq is illegal.

Kofi Annan

I hope we do not see another Iraq-type operation for a long time - without UN approval and much broader support from the international community.

Scott Ritter

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

Scott Ritter

The most dangerous thing Iraq could have ever had was a nuclear weapon. The nuclear weapon Iraq was trying to build was not deliverable by bomb or ballistic missile. It was a large, bulky device that they hoped to bury and set off to let the world know they had a nuclear weapon. They never achieved that.

Scott Ritter

My personal missteps - how many Americans have died as a result of that? None. Other than my family, how many victims were there? None. And yet, in refusing to engage in a responsible debate about Iraq, how many Americans died? Thousands. And America seems to have no problem with that.

Scott Ritter

Iraq has a tremendous amount of history.

Scott Ritter

My goal in Baghdad was to facilitate a debate here in the United States on America's policy toward Iraq, a debate that's been sadly lacking.

Scott Ritter

[Operation] Rockingham was spinning reports and emphasizing reports that showed non-compliance (by Iraq with UN inspections) and quashing those which showed compliance. It was cherry-picking intelligence.

Scott Ritter

While we were never able to provide 100 percent certainty regarding the disposition of Iraq's proscribed weaponry, we did ascertain a 90-95 percent level of verified disarmament. This figure takes into account the destruction or dismantling of every major factory associated with prohibited weapons manufacture, all significant items of production equipment, and the majority of the weapons and agent produced by Iraq.

Scott Ritter

I made a movie to explain to the American public what had been achieved in regards to disarmament of Iraq and why inspectors aren't in Iraq today and detailing the very complex, murky history of interaction between Iraq, the United Nations and the United States. It is most definitely not a pro-Iraq movie. It is a pro-truth movie.

Virginia Foxx

We went to Iraq because Saddam Hussein's dictatorship was a threat to his neighbors, the Middle East, the United States and his own people.

At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That's the only way to defeat terrorism.

Bernie Sanders

The disastrous invasion of Iraq, something that I strongly opposed, has unraveled the region.

There can only be an Iraqi solution to this violence.

Scott McClellan

It would be wrong to suggest that he (Bush) was saying that there would still be substantial number of troops in Iraq after he is out of office. That is not he was asked. That is not what he was talking about.