Arrangements Quote by Leon Panetta

The White House was signaling that the threat posed by Saddam Hussein was of such urgency that it had priority over the crushing of…

— Bob Graham

The Pentagon is constantly adjusting tactics because they have the flexibility from the White House to do so. The strategy is to help the…

— George W. Bush

What is happening in Iraq now is awful, but it is a consequence of our invasion, not our withdrawal.

— Chris Murphy

Because the Bush Administration will set no timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, both chambers of Congress acted to make sure…

— Jan Schakowsky

I had earlier concluded that a war with Iraq would be a distraction from the successful and expeditious completion of our aims in Afghanistan.…

— Bob Graham

I think the President's decision to withdraw the United States, to keep a campaign promise in Iraq, without leaving a stay-behind force was a…

— John Barrasso

What did we want out of Iraq? We wanted a country that was stable and secure, that elected its own government, that was not…

— Jack Keane

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

— William Odom

In November 2007, the White House issued a Declaration of Principles demanding that U.S. forces must remain indefinitely in Iraq and committing Iraq to…

— Noam Chomsky

White House operatives went to great lengths to show Obama shifting focus from wars abroad to domestic issues at home.

— Ron Fournier

Democrats proposing failure in Iraq by withdrawing.

— John McCain

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