Quotes About Iraq

Former General John Kelly had stood in the Trump Tower lobby as Trump took questions with a grim look on his face. Colbert said, "This guy is a four-star general. Iraq, no problem. Afghanistan, we can do it. Twenty-minute Trump press conference? A quagmire.

It might interest you that just as the U.S. was ramping up its involvement in Vietnam, LBJ launched an illegal invasion of the Dominican Republic (April 28, 1965). (Santo Domingo was Iraq before Iraq was Iraq.)

In Iraq, the public has lost all sense of self; it exists only in the form artificially imparted to it by "its" regime. This was an outcome of statification, party growth, and all the other indices that have been discussed.442 The dissolution of Iraqi identity is the most fundamental explanation for why no connection existed in Ba?thist Iraq between military achievements and extending or withholding political allegiance.

Sixty-nine percent of Americans believed that Saddam Hussein was personally responsible for 9/11 when we invaded Iraq. That is the biggest failure of the media I have ever seen.

That's how we invaded Iraq, through the fear of an 'evil empire,' and it just makes people feel like bulls with the toreadors - you see red, and you charge.

The invasion of Iraq was, in ways that have since become hard to dispute, a terrible mistake.

I think it's reality that Iran is going to have influence in Iraq. All elements of Iraq accepted that.

Any claim between the U.S. and Iran, any conflict is bad for Iraq.

It was Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda who attacked the U.S. on September 11, 2001, not Saddam Hussein and Iraq.

Don't invade Iraq. Inspections work, war won't.

I am not going to second-guess my old battlefield comrades from Iraq and Afghanistan; each has his own reason for what he has done.

People don't know much about what's going on on the ground in Iraq: what you see in the media is heavily censored.

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.

If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I'm happy to talk to him.

I think the disarmament of Iraq is inevitable.

The Wahhabists are the boogeymen, the guys who will chop the head off any American they catch. And they will destroy Iraq without a second thought if they believe that the instability will benefit them.

We are not going to abandon Iraq.

The war in Iraq, clearly has not turned out in the way that was hoped.

Iraq did nothing to us. Iraq was not responsible for 9/11.

It was not in our interest to enter Iraq in the first place.

I still agree with the invasion of Iraq. I don't agree with most of the decisions that accompanied it.

We live in a liberal country. If you came here from Iraq or Iran, you really would think that we are quite a liberal country.

That is the best case for Bush; that, among other things, he liberated Iraq. It is good enough for me.

You want to see a war on women? Come with me to Iraq and Afghanistan, folks. I've been there 35 times. I will show you what they do to women.