Above Quote by Martin Jacques

Tony Blair took us to war in Iraq on the basis of the supposed threat of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction.

— Charles Kennedy

“For more than a decade, the United States had been giving large-scale military aid to the French colonialists, and then to the American-installed but…

— Edward S. Greenberg

“The usual fiction – that the war would involve precision targeting and the careful avoidance of civilian deaths – was stated by Tony Blair…

— Mark Curtis

I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.

— Sammy Davis, Jr

Vietnam was a lie but at least there was a political agenda. It was the domino theory. Iraq is about nothing but George Bush's…

— Donald Sutherland

The British Labour Party has always had a very strong "Atlanticist component," with an obsequiousness to American policies, and Blair represents this wing. He's…

— John Pilger

“Over the past five decades, civilian officials have favored the use of military force over the opposition of their military counterparts. In doing so,…

— Melvin A. Goodman

The only option to avoid war is the departure of the number one warmonger in the world US President George W Bush. His policy…

— Naji Sabri

Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war, anything to…

— Ron Paul

The British Labour Party has always had a very strong "Atlanticist component," with an obsequiousness to American policies, and Blair represents this wing. He's…

— John Pilger

“Blair had never been able to develop strong relationships at the White House, and I think the final straw was his single-handed attempt to…

— Robert M. Gates

As for Vietnam, what matters is that Kennedy successfully resisted pressure to send anything more than military advisers, a stance that was a likely…

— Robert Dallek