Quotes About War

There are no black people in Iraq, so how will they know who to shoot at?

The war on Iraq was a disaster, clearly carried out under false pretences.

It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq.

This question about Iraq has gotten personal.

Iraq is a country that has been invaded. It's not a failing state that you want to help. It's a country that was functioning good or bad, with a horrible dictator, but you have invaded.

Our safety at home and the cause of freedom abroad is largely contingent upon our success in Iraq.

I think I may try and write something about my pretty extraordinary experience with the 101st in Iraq.

Iraq is going to go down as one of the greatest blunders in American history.

The most dangerous fundamentalists aren't just waging war in Iraq; they're attacking evolution, blocking medical research and ignoring the environment.

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.

I did try to write in Iraq, and I failed. I think you just don't have the brain space for it.

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.

You could say that bad typography brought us the Afghanistan war, the Iraq war, the housing crisis and a good number of other things.

I mean, we're going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as I'm alive.

I'm one of the ones who believed the Iraq War was a complete mistake from the very beginning.

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.

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.

I stopped being a Republican because of the Iraq War.

Iraqis must fight for their own country.

There are a lot of Iraqi people we can never pay back for what we've done.

By 2007, Iraqi society had completely collapsed.

Every time you treat an Iraqi disrespectfully, you are working for the enemy.

The war against Islamic extremism will be long. They are in it for the long haul, which means that we have to be also.

Not all of the Islamic State killers are going to die on the battlefield.