Because Quote by Dougray Scott

The illegal 2003 invasion had little to do with liberating Iraqis from Saddam Hussein's dictatorship. Instead, the real freedoms and benefits were destined to…

— John McDonnell

The first Iraq War was one of necessity because vital U.S. interests were at stake, and we reached the point where no other national-security…

— Richard N. Haass

In the middle of the last century there was a reason to go to war. This time around the war was a really bad…

— Anthony Kiedis

“Arabs and other Muslims generally agreed that Saddam Hussein might be a bloody tyrant, but, paralleling FDR's thinking, "he is our bloody tyrant." In…

— Samuel P. Huntington

The attempt to minimize cost and maximize profits often interfered with our true mission in Iraq. We should have been working to get jobs…

— Joseph Stiglitz

The invasion of Iraq was not an unprecedented event; it really was the natural extension of a conflict with Iraq that began on August…

— Michael Klare

Extending the ground war into an occupation of Iraq, would have incurred incalculable human and political costs. Had we gone the invasion route, the…

— George H. W. Bush

If anything caused ISIS, it was the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.

— Mohammad Javad Zarif

The war with Iraq ... had to be one of the greatest non sequiturs in military history. Attacked by a gang composed largely of…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

Had the United States and the United Kingdom gone on alone to capture Baghdad, under the provisions of the Geneva and Hague conventions we…

— Norman Schwarzkopf

The United States, as all you know, did not come to Iraq for oil, not to occupy. We came here only to help.

— Donald Rumsfeld

Saddam Hussein could have provided irreplaceable help to future historians of the Iran/Iraq war, of the invasion of Kuwait, and of the subsequent era…

— Richard Dawkins