If we're successful in Iraq, if we can stand up a good representative government in Iraq, that secures the region so that it never again becomes a threat to its neighbors or to the United States.
Dick Cheney, September 2003The result is an absence of checks and balances in Russia. The decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq...- I mean of Ukraine.
George W. Bush, May 2022To claim that Britain and the US left Iraq a better place in 2003 is delusional.
Dominic RaabPeople feel repressed by their own governments; they feel unfairly treated by the outside world; they wake up in the morning, and who do they see - they see people being shot and killed: all Muslims from Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, Darfur.
Afghanistan, SomaliaMohamed ElBaradeiThe only way the French are going in is if we tell them we found truffles in Iraq.
FranceDennis MillerFor the first time in nine years, there are no Americans fighting in Iraq.
2012Barack Obama, SOTU Address 2012