About Quote by Peter Schuyler

You know the most important thing the Americans did for Iraq apart from liberating the country from Saddam was helping Iraq reduce its debt.…

— Ahmed Chalabi

I believe very deeply in the proposition that what we did in Iraq was the right thing to do. It was hard to do.…

— Dick Cheney

America created a vacuum in Iraq and ISIS formed. But had we taken the oil something else would've very good happened. They would not…

— Donald Trump

The first Iraq War was one of necessity because vital U.S. interests were at stake, and we reached the point where no other national-security…

— Richard N. Haass

In Iraq, [American administration] said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction endangering mankind. With this pretext, the U.S. intervened militarily, and all they…

— Evo Morales

Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people.

— Henry A. Kissinger

The United States invaded Iraq to gain control of one of the major sources of the world's energy.

— Noam Chomsky

The United States, as all you know, did not come to Iraq for oil, not to occupy. We came here only to help.

— Donald Rumsfeld

And we believe that our policies toward Iraq simply are to protect the region and to protect Iraq's people and neighbors.

— Condoleezza Rice

I don't think for a minute we went to Iraq for oil. It just so happened that it had oil. But I think we'll…

— T. Boone Pickens

We won when we toppled Saddam. That was the only clear goal of this war, to topple the Iraqi government. It took about 10 minutes.

— Howard Dean

We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq.

— Condoleezza Rice