The rebuilding of Iraq has been terrible.

As I think through the issue of funding the rebuilding of Iraq, I think about the analogy of a bankruptcy proceeding. There is no…

— Arlen Specter

I wish that after the war against Saddam Hussein we had been more effective at rebuilding Iraq quickly. I think had we done it…

— Condoleezza Rice

The Katrina matter was terrible.

— Pat Robertson

But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy…

— Pat Robertson

The invasion of Iraq was, in ways that have since become hard to dispute, a terrible mistake.

— Jacob Weisberg

One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards,…

— Walter Dean Myers

The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free.

— George W. Bush

While not widely reported, our victories in Iraq are plentiful. National elections, a democratic parliament and the drafting of a constitution are just some…

— Paul Gillmor

The U.S. cannot impose freedom, security, and unity in Iraq by force.

— Peter DeFazio

In any event, it is one thing to assert, then or now, that the Iraq war was ill-advised. It is quite another to make…

— Laurence Silberman

There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't…

— Malcolm Wallop

In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse,…

— Anthony Zinni

I believe Saddam Hussein's strategic objective was, and remains, to assert dominance over the Gulf region.

— Sandy Berger

It's easy to say, let's go in and get the bad guys. But you have a divided country of Sunnis and Shias. The United…

— Tulsi Gabbard

In the Green Zone in Iraq you have your radio, you have your food, you have your own electricity, your own toilets. Everything is…

— Elliott Colla