“Baathism in Iraq equals Nazism in Germany.”
― Ahmed Chalabi
“Sectarian politics gets votes in Iraq. But sectarian government fails in Iraq.”
― Ahmed Chalabi
“Northern Iraq has become, economically, a natural extension of Turkey.”
― Ali Babacan
“Of all Iraq’s rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.”
― Barton Gellman
“The defection of Hussein Kamel was a turning point in the U.N.-imposed disarmament of Iraq in the 1990s.”
― Barton Gellman
“The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.”
― Bashar al-Assad
“The U.S. and Britain are incapable of controlling all of Iraq.”
― Bashar al-Assad
“Iraq is not about oil.”
― Bobby Ray Inman
“If we can rebuild Iraq, we can rebuild Illinois and Indiana and if we can do Baghdad, we can do Baltimore.”
― Carol Moseley Braun
“We would all rather see Iraq resolved successfully.”
― Charles Kennedy
“When I stood up to oppose an invasion of Iraq in 2002, it wasn’t a popular thing to do.”
― Chellie Pingree
“Of course, it’s imperative that we stabilize Iraq and quickly reduce our armed role there.”
― David Hackworth
“Gen. David Petraeus, commander of U.S. troops in Iraq, Afghanistan and at Centcom, is probably the most decorated officer of his generation.”
― David Ignatius
“Iraq does have many, many different tensions.”
― David Petraeus
“I think the disarmament of Iraq is inevitable.”
― Douglas Feith
“If, for a moment, it seemed that September 11th could be identified with Iraq, the illusion was short-lived.”
― Elif Batuman
“There’s no connection between al-Qaeda and Iraq.”
― George Clooney
“The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free.”
― George W. Bush
“The United States prefers that Iraq meet its obligations voluntarily, yet we are prepared for the alternative.”
― George W. Bush
“This question about Iraq has gotten personal.”
― Gerhard Schroder
“It’s astounding the degree to which these communities are intermarried. Iraq is a crazy quilt of ethnicities and religious sects.”
― H. R. McMaster
“Iraqi oil is sold by Iraq.”
― Haider al-Abadi
“Many of our forces collapsed when Daesh rolled into Iraq.”
― Haider al-Abadi
“The U.N. is much more than the case of Iraq.”
― Hans Blix
“What we now have in Iraq is a defeat.”
― Henry Waxman
“Terrorists are everywhere and, emphatically, not only in Iraq.”
― Ivo Daalder
“We are succeeding in Iraq. Thank you, America.”
― Iyad Allawi
“We are succeeding in Iraq. It’s a tough struggle with setbacks, but we are succeeding.”
― Iyad Allawi
“Iraq is not occupied, but there are foreign forces on its soil, which is different.”
― Jalal Talabani
“Iraq is a manufactured conflict for the sake of geopolitical dominance in the area.”
― Janeane Garofalo
“It’s not just Iraq – it’s the Atlantic partnership which is at stake.”
― Janez Drnovsek
“We would like UN resolutions to be enforced, including on Iraq.”
― Jean-Pierre Raffarin
“In Iraq, embedding allows us to put reporters in situations that would otherwise be too dangerous for them.”
― Jim Walton
“There’s a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.”
― Joe Biden
“I am all in favour of democracy in Iraq.”
― John Bolton
“The people of Iraq have suffered greatly.”
― John Chilcot
“The scale of the U.K. effort in post-conflict Iraq never matched the scale of the challenge.”
― John Chilcot
“Planning and preparations for Iraq after Saddam Hussein were wholly inadequate.”
― John Chilcot
“Blair overestimated his ability to influence U.S. decisions on Iraq.”
― John Chilcot
“In practice, the U.K.’s most consistent strategic objective in relation to Iraq was to reduce the level of its deployed forces.”
― John Chilcot
“I’ve spent 7 Christmases in Iraq and Afghanistan with WWE.”
― John Layfield
“Clearly, a stable, unified and democratic Iraq cannot be achieved militarily by the U.S.”
― John Olver
“Disarming Iraq is legal under a series of U.N. resolutions. Iraq is in flagrant violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions.”
― Jose Maria Aznar
“I served two tours in Iraq, in the Marine Corps.”
― Josh Mandel
“We invaded Iraq to change a totalitarian, despotic regime, and we have been successful there.”
― Judd Gregg
“The war in Iraq has as much to do with terrorism as the administration has to do with compassion.”
― Julian Bond
“I began college during the Iraq War and initially wanted to be a foreign correspondent.”
― Kasie Hunt
“Al Qaeda is alive and well in Libya, Iraq, Syria and the wars are not receding.”
― Lindsey Graham
“Iraq is falling apart.”
― Lindsey Graham
“Don’t invade Iraq. Inspections work, war won’t.”
― Martin Sheen
“During the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the military conducted only a handful of drone missions.”
― Michael Hastings
“My younger brother is a decorated combat veteran and was a platoon leader in Iraq.”
― Michael Hastings
“We are tangled in a very significant Islamic insurgency in Iraq.”
― Michael Scheuer
“The Salafists, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Al Qaeda in Iraq are the major forces driving the insurgency in Syria.”
― Michael T. Flynn
“There’s overwhelming evidence… circumstantial and otherwise, to suggest a connection between Iraq and al Qaeda.”
― Mike Pence
“The new troops in Iraq need to be Iraqi troops.”
― Mitch McConnell
“If anything caused ISIS, it was the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.”
― Mohammad Javad Zarif
“I don’t see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that’s almost inconceivable.”
― Noam Chomsky
“The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.”
― Noam Chomsky
“I was very much in favor of the Iraq invasion.”
― P. J. O’Rourke
“The rebuilding of Iraq has been terrible.”
― Pat Robertson
“It was Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda who attacked the U.S. on September 11, 2001, not Saddam Hussein and Iraq.”
― Peter DeFazio
“Even the majority of the Sunnis have grown tired of foreign terrorists operating in Iraq.”
― Peter DeFazio
“I would have voted ‘no’ on the Iraq war and ‘yes’ to Afghanistan.”
― Rand Paul
“No connection between Iraq and the 9/11 catastrophe.”
― Richard Ben-Veniste
“For many foreign fighters, the jihad in Iraq and Syria is a commuter war.”
― Richard Engel
“I did not believe in the Iraq war.”
― Richard N. Haass
“I have performed for the troops… in Iraq! They loved it! I loved it… It’s all good!”
― Rob Riggle
“I have carried bills concerning Sudan. I’ve carried bills concerning Congo. I’ve carried bills concerning North Korea and Iran and Iraq.”
― Sam Brownback
“The Iraq war was not necessary.”
― Scott McClellan
“Iraq has a tremendous amount of history.”
― Scott Ritter
“There is only one option in Iraq: that we win.”
― Thelma Drake
“We are spending $1 billion a week in Iraq.”
― Tom Allen
“We need to significantly increase the number of bombing runs we’re conducting in Iraq and Syria.”
― Tom Cotton
“Romania will continue to fulfil its obligations in Afghanistan and Iraq.”
― Traian Basescu
“I’ve never signed any contract and never received a cent from Iraq.”
― Vladimir Zhirinovsky
“The war in Iraq, clearly has not turned out in the way that was hoped.”
― William Hague
“We are not going to abandon Iraq.”
― Zalmay Khalilzad
“In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option.”
― Zbigniew Brzezinski
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