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Quotes About Iraq

The reality is that al Qaeda has been trying to attack the United States since long before Iraq.
~ Ed Royce
I am all in favour of democracy in Iraq.
~ John Bolton
Iraq is falling apart.
~ Lindsey Graham
I think I may try and write something about my pretty extraordinary experience with the 101st in Iraq.
~ Rick Atkinson
Iraq is a small but very proud nation.
~ Vladimir Putin
Iraq is going to go down as one of the greatest blunders in American history.
~ Scott Anderson
I like to tell people that I have the best job in the media. All I do is hang around with heroes. I do that every week for my 'War Stories' documentary series - and when FOX News wants - I go off and cover the young Americans we send to places like Afghanistan or Iraq.
~ Oliver North
The Iranians don't want the same thing we do in Iraq, not really; they want to control Iraq... the Ayatollah hates the United States; the Iranians are enemies of the United States.
~ Elliott Abrams
After all the sacrifice in Afghanistan and Iraq, why do we find ourselves in a more dangerous world?
~ Rand Paul
Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.
~ Barton Gellman
I always wrote - not about war, necessarily, but I always wrote stories. I tried to write while I was in Iraq. It's not really - I didn't do a very good job, and not about war.
~ Phil Klay
I did try to write in Iraq, and I failed. I think you just don't have the brain space for it.
~ Phil Klay
Certainly, when I'd left Iraq back in 2008, I'd been proud of my service, but whether we'd been successful or not was still an open question.
~ Phil Klay
Everybody wants to talk about sectarian conflicts of the war in Iraq, but the fact of the matter is, Sunnis have lived with Shias in harmony more in the confines of Iraq, in that land, than they have been in conflict. That's an historical fact.
~ Jack Keane
The concern is that Iraq could actually ultimately defeat ISIS, but Iran will have taken over the country, because it will be their military, their boots on the ground controlling the ground.
~ John Barrasso
I really am not going to get involved in a discussion about the legal position of the Iraq war. I am not the person to do that because I am not sufficiently impartial as a lawyer about this, because it's a matter that is of interest to the person that I am closest to in the world.
~ Cherie Blair
I mean, we're going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as I'm alive.
~ Paul Wolfowitz
There is no getting around the reality that the second Iraq war was a war of choice; had it been carried out differently, it still would have been an expensive choice and almost certainly a bad one.
~ Richard N. Haass
In 2005, the Iraq war was entering its third year and no one believed that we were going to find WMDs any more. The prewar claims of their certain existence were becoming an embarrassing joke, a big present we'd been offered that was getting ever later in showing up.
~ Jesse Armstrong
I stopped being a Republican because of the Iraq War.
~ Ben Domenech
This will be Iraq for all without discrimination among Iraqi citizens, or ethnic or sectarian discrimination.
~ Jalal Talabani
We believe that an Iraqi founding national assembly, freely elected, must decide the future of Iraq.
~ Jalal Talabani
We have exhausted all of our diplomatic effort to get the Iraqis to comply with their own agreements and with international law. Given that... we have got to force them to comply, and we are doing so militarily.
~ Tom Daschle
By 2007, Iraqi society had completely collapsed.
~ Richard Engel