Firsts Quote by Barney Frank

There is no getting around the reality that the second Iraq war was a war of choice; had it been carried out differently, it…

— Richard N. Haass

If you think I would have gone to war the way George Bush did, don't vote for me.

— John F. Kerry

I was very much in favor of the Iraq invasion.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I would have voted 'no' on the Iraq war and 'yes' to Afghanistan.

— Rand Paul

I think that the decision to go to war in Iraq was a mistake.

— Hillary Clinton

I'm not saying that George W. Bush did everything right. But even if you take a skeptical view of his Iraq war, [Barack] Obama…

— Garry Kasparov

Toughest decision was early in my presidency when I ordered 30,000 more troops into Afghanistan. As somebody who had run to end a large…

— Barack Obama

Not only did I vote against that war, I helped lead the opposition, and if you go to my website, berniesanders.com, you will see…

— Bernie Sanders

I thought Iraq was the wrong war at the wrong time and have been fighting to get the Administration to stop its failed policy…

— Jim McGovern

I was wrong to vote for this war. Unfortunately, I'll have to live with that forever. And the lesson I learned from it is…

— John Edwards

Whether or not you liked George W. Bush, there was no doubt about what position he was going to take, and that's what endeared…

— Frank Luntz

I believe that President [George W.] Bush was correct. I thought that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, and I supported him steadfastly, and…

— Jeff Sessions