Invading Iraq Quotes:

Iraq is a long way from the U.S., but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face.

- Madeleine Albright

topic: Iraq, Long, Leader, Invading Iraq, Weapons Of Mass Destruction

In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapon stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including al Qaeda members... It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons.

- Hillary Clinton

source: Hillary Clinton's Senate speech, October 10, 2002.

topic: Wmd, Mass Destruction, Iraq, Inspectors, Invading Iraq

One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line.

- William J. Clinton

topic: Ethos, Iraq, Lines, Invading Iraq, Weapons Of Mass Destruction

If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program.

- William J. Clinton

source: "Text Of Clinton Statement On Iraq", www.cnn.com. February 17, 1998.

topic: Patriotic, Wmd, Mass Destruction, Invading Iraq, Weapons Of Mass Destruction

The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security.

- George McGovern

topic: War, Two, Iraq, Invading Iraq

The Iraq War was the biggest issue for people of my generation in the West. It was also the clearest case, in my living memory, of media manipulation and the creation of a war through ignorance.

- Julian Assange

topic: Memories, War, Ignorance, Media Manipulation, Invading Iraq

George W. Bush was a very bad president. The Iraq war was a big mistake. The U.S.A. needed a political change. I hoped Barack Obama could be a good president, but I'm disappointed. He hasn't done well.

- Marc Rich

source: "Glencore IPO Pushes Ex-Fugitive Billionaire Marc Rich Out Of The Shadows" by Clare O'Connor, www.forbes.com. May 23, 2011.

topic: War, Mistake, Iraq, Invading Iraq

[Invading Iraq] is not the best way to make a safer world in which the United States would be a responsible partner, but it also goes against the role of law in the United States.

- John Burroughs

topic: Law, Iraq, Way, Invading, Invading Iraq

[Invading Iraq] would create generations that hated the USA.

- Jerry Springer

topic: Usa, Iraq, Generations, Invading Iraq

The consequence of Mr. Bush's and Blair's historic lie that the reason for invading Iraq was weapons of mass destruction, is that everything is being doubted.

- Walid Jumblatt

topic: Lying, Iraq, Weapons, Invading, Invading Iraq

The President, in talking about freedom and democracy, is sparking a wave of very positive democratic sentiment that might help us override both Islamic fundamentalism that has formed in that region, and also some of the hatred for our policies of invading Iraq.

- Bill Richardson

topic: Islamic, Talking, Iraq, Sparking, Invading

I think it's (Israeli pressure for invading Iraq) the worst kept secret in Washington, everybody I talked to in Washington has known and fully knows what their agenda was and what they were trying to do; because I mentioned the Neo-Conservatives who describe themselves as Neo-Conservatives, I was called, Anti-Semitic.

- Anthony Zinni

source: 60 Minutes Interview, May 21, 2004.

topic: Thinking, Iraq, Secret, Anti Semitic, Kept Secrets

Speaker John Boehner complained that Barack Obama ordered the U.S. military into combat in Libya without clearly defining the mission to the American people and Congress. See, apparently, you're only allowed to do that when invading Iraq.

- Jay Leno

topic: Military, Iraq, People, Invading Iraq

We have it. The smoking gun. The evidence. The potential weapon of mass destruction we have been looking for as our pretext of invading Iraq. There's just one problem - it's in North Korea.

- Jon Stewart

topic: Funny, Gun, Iraq, Pretext, Invading

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.

- Billy Bragg

topic: War, Iraq, America, Invading, Invading Iraq

[Invading Iraq] will unite the entire Arab world against the West.

- Richard Dawkins

topic: Iraq, Usa, West, Invading Iraq