Capability Quote by Colin Powell

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

— Jacob Weisberg

It's true the Iraqis misbehaved and had no credibility but that doesn't necessarily mean that they were in the wrong.

— Hans Blix

Official intelligence on Iraqi weapons programs was flawed, but even with its flaws, it was not what led to the war.

— Bill Vaughan

Bush and Cheney were not misled by flawed intelligence; they used the flawed intelligence to mislead.

— David Corn

I'm quite convinced in my own mind that those who were arguing that [the need to intervene in Iraq] was a more immediate one…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Most people, when directly confronted by evidence that they are wrong, do not change their point of view or course of action but justify…

— Carol Tavris

Similarly, the press never tested many of the assumptions about WMDs. One of the great myths about the WMD issue is that everybody believed…

— Seymour Hersh

I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust. And I think the premises on which it…

— Jimmy Carter

It [the Iraq invasion] was absolutely an error. It's obviously clear the evaluation of weapons of mass destruction proved not to be correct. That's…

— Stephen Harper

Clearly, the American war planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces.

— Peter Arnett

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

“For six weeks after the Normandy invasion the Germans persisted in their error, keeping many of their troops in readiness at Calais rather than…

— Paul Ekman