Decision Quote by Dick Cheney

Iraqis will never forget that on 8 August 1990 Kuwait became part of Iraq legally, constitutionally and actually. It continued to do so until…

— Saddam Hussein

Saddam's ouster will not necessarily lead to the same result, since Iraq lacks democratic traditions. Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections.

— Brent Scowcroft

I think [Bush] would like to hand his father Saddam Hussein's head and win his approval for what happened after the Gulf War.

— Martin Sheen

There's no doubt in my mind, though, that the Iraqi people would be better off with a different leader who did not waste their…

— Colin Powell

The fact is that we wouldn't be in Iraq if it weren't for Democrats like Senator Kerry.

— Howard Dean

Obviously, I didn't think, and nobody else did, that the Iraqis were going to take ALL of Kuwait .

— April Glaspie

But if Saddam had been in a position credibly to threaten America or any of its allies - or the coalition's forces - with…

— Margaret Thatcher

[Saddam Hussein] could have easily reconstituted a program. He was a threat to peace before we went in. He'd have been a threat to…

— George W. Bush

Removing Saddam Hussein was the right decision early in my presidency, it is the right decision now, and it will be the right decision…

— George W. Bush

I think it was right to remove Saddam Hussein. I think it was the right decision then and I still think it was right…

— David Cameron

I would not presume from this distance, nor would America presume to say who should be the leader of the Iraqi nation.

— Colin Powell

A genuinely democratic Iraq might well act as a fresh spur.

— Douglas Hurd