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President Bush says we've turned the corner in Iraq. What is that, about 16 corners we've turned? I think they call that running in circles. — Will Durst

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

We'll find them. It'll be a matter of time to do so. — George W. Bush

Tony Blair is a brilliant politician. Unfortunately, his legacy is entwined with George W. Bush because of Iraq. — Noel Gallagher

I firmly believe that a free Iraq will be a catalyst to other substantive and important changes in that part of the world. — George W. Bush

I leave Iraq gladdened by what has been accomplished and confident your future is full of hope. — Paul Bremer

We need a regime change in this country ... If we launch a pre-emptive strike on Iraq we lose all moral authority. — Jesse Jackson

The corruption in Iraq has nothing to do with ideas - it has to do with the regime and institutional structures and power. — Elliott Colla

Of course we're after Iraq.. eh.. Saddam Hussein.. I mean bin Laden. — George W. Bush

My last passport, I had North Korea, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Liberia, Guinea ... I had, like, every war-torn country in there. — Shane Smith

U.S. military action in Iraq: It sure didn't work out well last time. Let's not make that mistake again. — Alan Grayson

There isn't any air power in the world that can take care of the problem of sectarian divisions. — Bob Menendez

And more recently, the world had been led to believe that weapons of mass destruction existed in Iraq. — Dan Brown

Being in Vietnam changed him [Johnny Cash] fundamentally. He was devastated when we went into Iraq. — Rosanne Cash

I will always hate war, but will be forever proud of mine. — David Bellavia

In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran. — Zaha Hadid

As governor, when I visited our troops in Kuwait and Iraq, I served them Thanksgiving dinner. It was a small gesture compared to their sacrifice. — Jennifer Granholm

Iraq is now the central front in the war against al-Qaeda. — John McCain

The U.S. and Britain are incapable of controlling all of Iraq. — Bashar Al-Assad

We are not going to abandon Iraq. — Zalmay Khalilzad

You could say that bad typography brought us the Afghanistan war, the Iraq war, the housing crisis and a good number of other things. — Stefan Sagmeister

You really can't blame the military for wanting to go to war [in Iraq]. They've got all these new toys and they want to know whether they work or not. — Andy Rooney

Then when [ISIS] moved into Iraq, the Sunni Muslims didn't object to their being there and about a third of the territory in Iraq was abandoned. — Jimmy Carter

I am struck by how casually we as a nation react to the carnage in Iraq. — Charles B. Rangel

One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror. — George W. Bush

I don't see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that's almost inconceivable. — Noam Chomsky

We have defeated Saddam Hussein and Iraq. The good news is Iraq is ours, and the bad news is Iraq is ours. — David Letterman

Enough with the slaughters. Enough with the violence. Enough with the hatred in Iraq! — Pope Benedict XVI

No candidate can win a presidential race advocating gay marriage and opposing the military action in Iraq. — Dick Morris

If a young fella has an option of having a decent career or joining the army to fight in Iraq, you can bet your life that he would not be in Iraq. — Charles Rangel

I have absolutely no doubt at all that we will find evidence of weapons of mass destruction programmes. — Tony Blair

Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi. — Barton Gellman

I believe the democratic transformation in Iraq will lead to change in Middle East. — Jalal Talabani

The driving motivation of a new American endeavor in Iraq and in neighboring Arab lands should be modernizing the Arab world. — Fouad Ajami

We will be changing the regime of Iraq for the good of the iraqi people. — George W. Bush

Iraq is in a civil war. There is no road in that country that is safe. — Mark Shields

I still believe that the Democrats have it right about health care, education, the war in Iraq and, yes the war on terror. — Alan Colmes

I just think everything we do has an unintended consequence. We take out Saddam Hussein in Iraq, and Iraq was the check against Iran. — Gary Johnson

The war to preserve the privilege of mythmaking — Marvin Bell

This will be Iraq for all without discrimination among Iraqi citizens, or ethnic or sectarian discrimination. — Jalal Talabani

Genocide is the responsibility of the entire world. — Ann Clwyd

I think Americans understand that in Afghanistan, unlike in Iraq and Vietnam, we are fighting an enemy allied with the people who attacked us on 9/11. — Richard Holbrooke

If Iraq fails to fully comply, the United States and other nations will disarm Saddam Hussein. — George W. Bush

There's overwhelming evidence ... circumstantial and otherwise, to suggest a connection between Iraq and al Qaeda. — Mike Pence

I didn't want to write a 'this is how it is' Iraq book, because the Iraq War is an intensely complicated variety of things. — Phil Klay

The fact is that we wouldn't be in Iraq if it weren't for Democrats like Senator Kerry. — Howard Dean

If any overarching conclusion emerges from the Afghan and Iraq Wars (and from their Israeli equivalents), it's this: victory is a chimera. — Andrew Bacevich

I hope we do not see another Iraq-type operation for a long time - without UN approval and much broader support from the international community. — Kofi Annan

Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq's future is not. — Barack Obama

Governor Dean has no policy on Iraq evidently, except 'no.' 'No' is not a policy. — John F. Kerry

A strong foundation exists for immediate military action against Saddam Hussein and for a multilateral effort to rebuild Iraq after he is gone. — George P. Shultz

There are no black people in Iraq, so how will they know who to shoot at? — Greg Giraldo

Did you hear that we're writing Iraq's new Constitution?
Why not just give them ours? We're not using it anymore. — Jay Leno

Next time
we will roll out the red carpet for you in the United States of Arabia, my brethren! — Leonard Leventon

It has been estimated that 80 percent of the oil illegally smuggled out of Iraq under oil for food ended up in the United States. — Scott Ritter

The US-led invasion of Iraq was an illegal act that contravened the UN charter. — Kofi Annan

America is a bunch o' bullies. Tell me what the Iraq uniform is like. Don't worry, I'll wait. — Katt Williams

If we invade Iraq and the regime is very close to falling, I'm very, very concerned that the Iraqis will, in fact, use weapons of mass destruction. — Norman Schwarzkopf

I'm not surprised if we begin to uncover the weapons program of Saddam Hussein - because he had a weapons program. — George W. Bush

The Iraq fight itself is probably going to go very, very fast. The shooting should be over within just a very few days from when it starts. — David Frum

'Hostel' is that's how I feel about what's going on in Iraq. There's people that just want money and people are being sacrificed for it. — Eli Roth

It's just a matter of time before we go into Iraq and get Saddam Hussein. I think just before Bush falls below 50 percent, that's when we'll be going. — Jay Leno

Reasonable people can differ on whether or not we should have gone into Iraq. — Mike Pence

I served two tours in Iraq, in the Marine Corps. — Josh Mandel

My younger brother is a decorated combat veteran and was a platoon leader in Iraq. — Michael Hastings

I think the behavior of the troops has been a huge factor in the rise of the insurgency and in the rise of the anti-American feelings there[in Iraq]. — Yaroslav Trofimov

We're in fact on plan. And where we stand today is not, in my view, only acceptable but truly remarkable. — Tommy Franks

CNN said that after the war, there is a plan to divide Iraq into three parts: regular, premium and unleaded. — Jay Leno

Would it be ironic if we had to go back to Iraq to rid it of the Al Quaeda that wasn't there before we got there to rid it of Al Queda? — Gary Gulman

The intelligence is clear: (Saddam) continues to believe his WMD programme is essential both for internal repression and for external aggression. — Tony Blair

John Howard's credibility on the entire Iraq war has been torpedoed by John Howard's own intelligence agency. — Kevin Rudd

President Obama is sending troops back to Iraq. He said, 'Don't worry, we should not be there any longer than a Kardashian marriage.' — David Letterman

There's a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq. — Joe Biden

Following those tiny footprints all throughout Iraq, Huxsoll's teams — Michael Christopher Carroll

We've thrown out Saddam and Saddam, dead or alive, is finished in Iraq. — Paul Bremer

Always I am speaking English on behalf of fools — Michael Pitre

Nobody is ready to leave Iraq to be interviewed. — Colin Powell

I try to get over to Iraq and Afghanistan as much as I can. — R. Lee Ermey

The easiest way to get into northern Iraq is through Turkey. — Husnu Ozyegin

I repeat my demand that the occupier leave the land of our beloved Iraq unconditionally, without retaining bases or signing agreements. — Muqtada Al Sadr

If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I'm happy to talk to him. — Fareed Zakaria

I'm absolutely sure that there are weapons of mass destruction there and the evidence will be forthcoming. We're just getting it just now. — Colin Powell

Years ago, I predicted that Iran would take over Iraq. Iran and Iraq used to fight back and forth. — Donald Trump

The world [is] now seeing might is right. — Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

The Second World War is and was constantly being drudged up by Blair and Bush to rationalize the invasion of Iraq. — Robert Fisk

A stable Iraq at peace with its neighbors will remain elusive until we improve both the security and the economic environment in Iraq. — Tom Lantos

We expected, I expected to find actual usable, chemical or biological weapons after we entered Iraq. — Tony Blair

[Invading Iraq] would create generations that hated the USA. — Jerry Springer

Muslim and non-Muslim from across the world flocked to Baghdad to be part of Al-Ma'mun's project "Bait Al-Hekmah" or "House of Wisdom — Firas Alkhateeb

Iraq should commit itself to implement the U.N. resolutions, and the Iraqi leadership should put the interests of its people into consideration. — Hosni Mubarak

Well, I know that 500,000 children died in Iraq because of the embargo. — Jacques Verges

Certainly, when I'd left Iraq back in 2008, I'd been proud of my service, but whether we'd been successful or not was still an open question. — Phil Klay

Iraq has a tremendous amount of history. — Scott Ritter

The Iraq War was the first conflict in western history in which an imperialist war was massively protested against before it had even been launched. — Noam Chomsky

As we head to war with Iraq, President Bush wants to make one thing clear: This war is not about oil. It's about gasoline. — Jay Leno

My goal in Baghdad was to facilitate a debate here in the United States on America's policy toward Iraq, a debate that's been sadly lacking. — Scott Ritter

We have a lot of work to do. It's a very hard struggle, particularly given the situation on the Iraq-Pakistan border. — John McCain

What is postwar Iraq going to look like, with the Kurds and the Sunnis and the Shiites? That's a huge question, to my mind. — Norman Schwarzkopf

Quit Iraq Study Group to avoid politicizing it. — Rudy Giuliani

U.S. officials never expected that 'we were going to open garages and find' weapons of mass destruction. — Condoleezza Rice