Administration Quote by Juan Cole

I argued that the Bush administration, and the Coalition officials more recently, didn't understand Iraqi society. They thought it was a blank slate, that…

— Juan Cole

I don't think any sensible person would disagree that the invasion of Iraq led to the massive level of instability that we're seeing right…

— Bernie Sanders

Iraq was a war of choice, like Vietnam.

— Chuck Hagel

Iraq was a war of choice, not necessity.

— Barbara Boxer

“One of the errors of the 2003 invasion of Iraq was the belief that regime change must be creative. The theory was that the…

— Timothy Snyder

“The absence of real pressures from within Iraqi society, from Iran, from the world at large, or even from his own party leaves those…

— Kanan Makiya

I still agree with the invasion of Iraq. I don't agree with most of the decisions that accompanied it.

— William Hague

It was not in our interest to enter Iraq in the first place.

— William Odom

“So before and during the war, the Bush administration had to build up an image in people's minds of Iraq as a monstrous military…

— Noam Chomsky

New Rule: The people of America who were most in favor of the Iraq War must now go there and fight it.

— Bill Maher

We were in opposition to the decision to go to war. But after the war happened, it was clear that you could not sit…

— Joschka Fischer

It is impossible to exaggerate the wide, and widening, gulf between the American attitude on the Iraq war and the view from our friends…

— Nick Clooney