Iraq War Quotes

“Some of my colleagues... feel that they have been suckered in by the administration. Well, I have not been suckered in.”

“But the inspectors were not given the time to complete their task.”

“You know, one of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror.”

“We know he has been absolutely devoted to trying to acquire nuclear weapons, and we believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons.”

“I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency.”

“Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.”

“We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.”

“It's a no-brainer for me.”

“That's a nice theory. We have no evidence of that.”

“I have my misgivings about the way that this was handled.”

“Mission accomplished.”

“We believe, as a government, that it's important to maintain a commitment to U.S. forces in Iraq.”

“I don't do quagmires.”

“Saddam Hussein's regime is a menace that is gathering strength and must be confronted.”

“People who were opposed to the war are eager to claim that it was based on lies.”

“I think that the information that we had was that there was a relationship between Iraq and al-Qaeda.”

“We were not making the case that Saddam Hussein was an imminent threat to the United States.”

“There was a lot of debate about whether the U.S. should invade Iraq. I was on the side of invading Iraq.”

“There is no doubt that the regime of Saddam Hussein possesses weapons of mass destruction.”

“Sir, I have met Saddam Hussein exactly the same number of times as Donald Rumsfeld met him. The difference is that Donald Rumsfeld met him to sell him guns and to give him maps.”