Country Quote by Richard Engel

We ended the war in Iraq, refocused ourselves on who actually attacked us on 9-11.

— Barack Obama

You just have to come to grips with the fact that people don't like to be invaded or bombed by anybody. And America has…

— Michael Scheuer

The Americans invaded a country without understanding what eight years of a war with Iran had meant, how that traumatized Iraq. They didn't appreciate…

— Anthony Shadid

In terms of our foreign policy, that's where we made a mistake after 9/11. Everyone's going, "Why, why, why," and there wasn't any investigation…

— Susan Sarandon

I'm saying 9/11 was to get us into Iraq and get us into Afghanistan.

— Jesse Ventura

After 9/11, the U.S. seemed vulnerable for the first time in a long time. We were no longer the superpower that no other country…

— Jennifer Egan

One of the worst things we could do is start to act now as though the attack of 9/11 is a thing of the…

— Dick Cheney

I was distressed that after 9/11, when the United States was attacked by terrorists, the United States' response was to attack Afghanistan, where some…

— Alice Walker

The invasion of Iraq was, in ways that have since become hard to dispute, a terrible mistake.

— Jacob Weisberg

The disastrous invasion of Iraq, something that I strongly opposed, has unraveled the region.

— Bernie Sanders

We used to be a serious country. When we got attacked at Pearl Harbor, we took on Imperial Japan, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany.…

— Newt Gingrich

I was responsible for the 9/11 Operation, from A to Z.

— Khalid Sheikh Mohammed