American people Quote by Laurence Silberman

My position on that has been misrepresented again and again and again in the media. Let me make it clear. There are two wars…

— Bernard Lewis

It's my belief that by demonizing Saddam, by raising the stakes in this war to the point where we're talking about a great moral…

— Rick Atkinson

It [the Iraq invasion] was absolutely an error. It's obviously clear the evaluation of weapons of mass destruction proved not to be correct. That's…

— Stephen Harper

“Michael Ledeen—a contributing editor of National Review and a Freedom Scholar at the influential neoconservative think tank American Enterprise Institute—wrote on the National Review…

— Glenn Greenwald

I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust. And I think the premises on which it…

— Jimmy Carter

I mean, there was a serious international effort to say to Saddam Hussein, you're a threat. And the 9/11 attacks extenuated that threat, as…

— George W. Bush

Whatever one wants to say about the conduct of the Iraq War, going to war to remove Saddam Hussein in 2003 was a necessary…

— Arthur L. Herman

I mean, there was a serious international effort to say to Saddam Hussein: 'You're a threat'. And the 9/11 attacks accentuated that threat, as…

— George W. Bush

For the last eight years, American policy toward Iraq has been based on the direct threat Saddam poses to international security. That threat is…

— Sandy Berger

Saddam was a threat, that the threat had to be dealt with.

— Tony Blair

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

The consequence of Mr. Bush's and Blair's historic lie that the reason for invading Iraq was weapons of mass destruction, is that everything is…

— Walid Jumblatt