Able Quote by John Scarlett

The time frame is very small to disarm the militia, to bring about a security situation in which the governing council, the 24 Iraqis…

— Richard Lugar

The Iraqi regime is a threat of unique urgency. [...] It has developed weapons of mass death.

— George W. Bush

If you wait until those weapons pose a direct, clear, present danger to the United States, you've probably waited too long.

— John Sununu

It [the intelligence service] concludes that Iraq has chemical and biological weapons, that Saddam has continued to produce them, that he has existing and…

— Tony Blair

If the Iraqi regime is able to produce, buy or steal an amount of highly enriched uranium a little larger than a single softball,…

— George W. Bush

The Iraq fight itself is probably going to go very, very fast. The shooting should be over within just a very few days from…

— David Frum

We have exhausted all of our diplomatic effort to get the Iraqis to comply with their own agreements and with international law. Given that...…

— Tom Daschle

We should not mislead the Iraqis into thinking they have unlimited time to reach a settlement. The longer they think that, the less likely…

— Sherrod Brown

We estimate that once Iraq acquires fissile material - whether from a foreign source or by securing the materials to build an indigenous fissile…

— John Bolton

The training and equipping of Iraqi security forces should be accelerated.

— Peter DeFazio

I can imagine that the Iraqis undertake the destruction out of fear. If they had denied it, if they had said no, that certainly…

— Hans Blix

The automation of warfare has, then, come a long way since the Persian Gulf War of 1991.

— Paul Virilio