Iraq War Quotes - Page 5

• Iraq war has made us overlook domestic agenda.

  Mike Huckabee

  War, Iraq, Agendas

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• 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

  Memories, War, Ignorance

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• The Iraq War is the largest strategic blunder in U.S. history … On every level - moral, strategic, military and economic - Iraq was a failure. And it was you, Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney, who started this war. It is you who should pay the consequences.

  Tomas Young

  Military, War, Iraq

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• 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

  War, Two, Iraq

  "George McGovern: Cheney is wrong about me, wrong about war". www.latimes.com. April 24, 2007.

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• I think that horror films have a very direct relationship to the time in which they're made. The films that really strike a film with the public are very often reflecting something that everyone, consciously or unconsciously feeling - atomic age, post 9-11, post Iraq war; it's hard to predict what people are going to be afraid of.

  Eli Roth

  War, Thinking, Iraq

  "Eli Roth answers your questions" by Adam Boult, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2013.

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• The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families.

  Bob Schieffer

  War, Iraq, Usual

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• One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror.

  George W. Bush

  Jobs, War, Iraq

  Interview with Katie Couric, www.cbsnews.com. September 6, 2006.

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• Destroying Iraq was the greatest strategic blunder this country has made in its history. Unless we change course, there's every reason to believe the Iraq War will end up changing the United States more than it will ever change Iraq.

  Robert Baer

  Country, War, Believe

  Robert Baer (2008). “The Devil We Know: Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower”, p.27, Broadway Books

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• They [American forces] are there as an expression of the American national interest to prevent the Iranian combination of imperialism and fundamentalist ideology from dominating a region on which the energy supplies of the industrial democracies depend.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  War, Expression, Democracy

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• We have now reached a turning point in the struggle between freedom and terror.

  George W. Bush

  War, Struggle, Terror

  "Bush Says U.S. Is Set to Shift Burden After 'Turning Point'". www.washingtonpost.com. May 23, 2006.

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• There's a lot of money to pay for this ... the oil revenues of that country could bring between $50 and $100 billion over the course of the next two or three years...We're dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  Country, War, Two

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• I was in the White House, probably the only administration I'll ever work for. The administration was not a success, neither at home nor abroad. The Iraq War was not a success. The condition of the average person was not enough better at the end of seven years of George Bush than it was at the beginning, and certainly it all ended in the collapse that was the Great Recession. So I feel a sense of karmic obligation to the universe because of that.

  David Frum

  War, Home, House

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• The new administration seems to be paying no attention to the problem of terrorism. What they will do is stagger along until there's a major incident and then suddenly say, `Oh, my God, shouldn't we be organized to deal with this?'

  Paul Bremer

  War, Administration, Attention

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• The Iraq war that I signed up for was launched on false premises. The American people were misled. Now, whether that was due to bad faith or simply mistakes in intelligence, I can't say for sure. But I can say it shows the problem of putting too much faith in intelligence systems without debating them in public.

  Edward Snowden

  War, Mistake, Memorable

  "Edward Snowden’s Motive Revealed: He Can ‘Sleep at Night’". Interview with Brian Williams, www.nbcnews.com. May 28, 2014.

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• This is an extraordinary achievement, nearly nine years in the making.

  Barack Obama

  War, Years, Achievement

  Obama's Speech to Troops at Fort Bragg, www.nytimes.com. December 14, 2011.

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• We remember the grind of the insurgency -- the roadside bombs, the sniper fire, the suicide attacks. From the 'triangle of death' to the fight for Ramadi; from Mosul in the north to Basra in the south -- your will proved stronger than the terror of those who tried to break it.

  Barack Obama

  Suicide, War, Fighting

  Obama's Speech to Troops at Fort Bragg, www.nytimes.com. December 14, 2011.

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• John Howard's credibility on the entire Iraq war has been torpedoed by John Howard's own intelligence agency.

  Kevin Rudd

  War, Agency, Iraq

  "Howard under fire over Iraq". edition.cnn.com. July 17, 2003.

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• Would the Iraq War have occurred without WMD? I doubt it.

  Karl Rove

  War, Wmd, Iraq

  Karl Rove (2010). “Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight”, p.339, Simon and Schuster

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• The mistakes of the Iraq war are not only tactical and strategic, but historical. It is essentially a war of colonialism, attempted in the post-colonial age.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  War, Mistake, Iraq

  "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer", January 11, 2007.

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• And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein's 'weapons of mass destruction,' American and British authorities were also concerned about violence in an area that harbors a resource indispensable for the functioning of the word economy. I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.

  Alan Greenspan

  War, Mass Destruction, Oil

  "The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World". Book by Alan Greenspan, 2007.

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• The Iraq war can only be won diplomatically, politically and economically, and the president needs to come to that realization.

  Harry Reid

  War, Iraq, President

  "'Give 'em Hooey' Surrenders" by Austin Bay, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 25, 2007.

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• President Barack Obama Invokes Iraq War Authorization in Syria

  Bobby Schilling

  War, Iraq, President

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• 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

  War, Mistake, Iraq

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

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• As a 29 year veteran of the US Army/Army Reserves, retiring as a Colonel and having served as a U.S. diplomat for 16 years and resigning in 2003 in opposition to the Iraq war, I firmly believe war does not resolve political issues.  We must work diligently to force the governments of our nations to use diplomacy, not weapons.

  Ann Wright

  War, Believe, Army

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• You don't have to be Dave Halberstam to see that the American role in both conflicts [the Iraq war and the Vietnam conflict] is characterized by arrogance, ignorance and self-delusion at the highest levels of government.

  Jonathan Yardley

  War, Ignorance, Government

  "David Halberstam". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. April 24, 2007.

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