Community Quote by Condoleezza Rice

We must recognize that there is no indication that Saddam Hussein has any intention of relenting. So we have an obligation of enormous consequence,…

— John F. Kerry

It has been, after all, 11 years, more than a decade now, of defiance of U.N. resolutions by Saddam Hussein. Every obligation that he…

— Condoleezza Rice

In my view, the military action taken in Iraq in 2003 was not lawful under international law because there was no U.N. resolution expressly…

— Keir Starmer

Saddam Hussein has systematically violated, over the course of the past 11 years, every significant UN resolution that has demanded that he disarm and…

— Henry Waxman

We promise that the events of 1991 will not happen again - we have pledged to remove Saddam and we will deliver

— Tony Blair

In my judgment, based on the work that has been done to this point of the Iraq Survey Group, and in fact, that I…

— David Kay

We stopped the fighting [in 1991] on an agreement that Iraq would take steps to assure the world that it would not engage in…

— Harry Reid

The notion that you do not negotiate with terrorists is not the history of humanity or of the world.

— Juan Manuel Santos

We now believe it is appropriate for Saddam Hussein to be forced to change, either by the threat of war, and therefore that compels…

— Colin Powell

Conflict is not inevitable, but disarmament is... everyone now accepts that if there is a default by Saddam the international community must act to…

— Tony Blair

That was not part of the U.N. resolution; it was not part of the mandate to go on to Baghdad and, frankly, if we…

— Les Aspin

The U.N. Security Council ordered Iraq in April 1991 to relinquish all capabilities to make biological, chemical and nuclear weapons as well as long-range…

— Barton Gellman