Iraq Quotes
The Green Zone in Iraq shows a sealed American reality with radio, food, electricity and toilets. Quotes also point out the huge cost of the wars, running into trillions, and the deep split between Sunnis and Shias that makes lasting peace hard. Some speakers call the war’s conduct a failure full of lies and negligence.
![“We don't have this huge footprint, we are less likely to be targeted as, you know, occupiers [in Afghanistan and Iraq].” quote by Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/fb4/barack-obama-17_afghanistan_we-don-t-have-this-huge-footprint-we-are_505636.jpg)
![“I don't like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight...I've always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.” quote by Al Pacino](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/8c5/al-pacino-1656_bits_i-don-t-like-a-lot-of-things-like-iraq-i_1540430.jpg)
![“I opposed the war in Iraq because I did not believe it was in our national security interest, and I still don't. What we [America] did was akin to taking a baseball bat to a beehive. Our primary security threat right now is terrorism - and by doing what we did in Iraq, we've managed to alienate a…” quote by Jerry Springer](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ba8/jerry-springer-11004_allies_i-opposed-the-war-in-iraq-because-i-did_1930172.jpg)
![“We stopped the fighting [in 1991] on an agreement that Iraq would take steps to assure the world that it would not engage in further aggression and that it would destroy its weapons of mass destruction. It has refused to take those steps. That refusal constitutes a breach of the armistice which…” quote by Harry Reid](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/cf2/harry-reid-7718_aggression_we-stopped-the-fighting-in-1991-on-an-ag_2780624.jpg)
