Destruction Quote by Zbigniew Brzezinski

The Iraq war was not necessary.

— Scott McClellan

Iraq was a war of choice, not necessity.

— Barbara Boxer

No connection between Iraq and the 9/11 catastrophe.

— Richard Ben-Veniste

Iraq was a war of choice, like Vietnam.

— Chuck Hagel

Reducing military presence has never in history won a war.

— John McCain

People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war.

— George McGovern

Preparedness never caused a war and unpreparedness never prevented one.

— Florence Prag Kahn

But critics of the war have no reason to regret their views.

— Stephen Cohen

I did not believe in the Iraq war.

— Richard N. Haass

What I could not support was a dumb war, a rash war, a war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle…

— Barack Obama

America has never gotten in a war because we were too strong.

— Ronald Reagan

The only way that American troops could have stayed in Iraq is to get an agreement from the then-Iraqi government that would have protected…

— Hillary Clinton