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It was an enormous mistake for us to try to occupy that country after June of 2003. We have to pull back, and we…

— Newt Gingrich

Without the United States, there simply would not have been an armed uprising in our country.

— Daniel Ortega

Ronald Reagan was able to accomplish extraordinary purposes for our country without having to put our military forces into conflict.

— Mitt Romney

[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

Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations' mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression that we…

— George H. W. Bush

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

— Tony Blair

If it had been our intention to take Iraq, if it had been our intention to destroy the country, if it had been our…

— Norman Schwarzkopf

We've won wars before and we've certainly retained our rights as Americans.

— Patrick Leahy

When Congress passed the Authorization for the Use of Military Force immediately after the 9/11 attacks, no one could have imagined this authorization would…

— Peter Bergen

We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded.

— Neil Sheehan

Nobody ever was fired for 9/11. Instead of firing the people who didn't do a good job, we gave them medals. The guy who…

— Rand Paul

No one is talking about occupying Iraq for five to ten years.

— Richard Perle