Iraq Quotes - Page 10

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

  Tommy Franks

  Views, Today, Facts

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• When it is over, if it is over, this war will have horrible consequences. Instead of having one Bin Laden, we will have 100 Bin Ladens.

  Hosni Mubarak

  War, Horrible, Bin Laden

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• Retreat might give us a moment of respite but years of repentance at our weakness would, I believe, follow.

  Tony Blair

  Believe, Years, Giving

  "Brzezinski and Mead on Tony Blair". Interview with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 20, 2003.

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• As so often before, on the courage and determination of British men and women, serving our country, the fate of many nations rests.

  Tony Blair

  Country, Determination, Fate

  "Blair addresses divided nation" by Martin Hodgson, www.theguardian.com. March 20, 2003.

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• The money from Iraqi oil will be yours - it will no longer be used by Saddam Hussein for his own benefit.

  Tony Blair

  Oil, Benefits, Hussein

  Tony Blair's Open Letter to Iraq, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2003.

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• We promise that the events of 1991 will not happen again. We have pledged to remove Saddam. And we will deliver.

  Tony Blair

  Promise, Events, Remove

  Tony Blair's Open Letter to Iraq, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2003.

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• It [the intelligence service] concludes that Iraq has chemical and biological weapons, that Saddam has continued to produce them, that he has existing and active military plans for the use of chemical and biological weapons, which could be activated within 45 minutes, including against his own Shia population; and that he is actively trying to acquire nuclear weapons capability.

  Tony Blair

  Military, Intelligence Services, Trying

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

  Tony Blair

  Believe, Wmd, Essentials

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• The biological agents we believe Iraq can produce include anthrax, botulinum, toxin, aflatoxin and ricin. All eventually result in excruciatingly painful death.

  Tony Blair

  Believe, Painful Death, Toxins

  "Blair's statement to MPs on Iraq". www.cnn.com. September 24, 2002.

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• If we don't act now, then we will go back to what has happened before and then of course the whole thing begins again and he carries on developing these weapons and these are dangerous weapons, particularly if they fall into the hands of terrorists who we know want to use these weapons if they can get them.

  Tony Blair

  Fall, Hands, Want

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• There are literally thousands of sites. As I was told in Iraq, information is coming in the entire time, but it is only now that the Iraq survey group has been put together that a dedicated team of people, which includes former UN inspectors, scientists and experts, will be able to go in and do the job properly.

  Tony Blair

  Jobs, Team, People

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• As I have said throughout, I have no doubt that they will find the clearest possible evidence of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction.

  Tony Blair

  Mass Destruction, Doubt, Weapons

  House of Commons, 6th series, vol. 406, col. 161, publications.parliament.uk. June 4, 2003.

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• The Iraq Survey Group has already found massive evidence of a huge system of clandestine laboratories.

  Tony Blair

  Long, Groups, Scientist

  "Inquiry hears Iraq no threat to UK before invasion". Interview with Emma Alberici, www.radioaustralia.net.au. January 18, 2012.

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• I don't think it's surprising we will have to look for them. I'm confident that when the Iraq Survey Group has done its work we will find what's happened to those weapons because he had them.

  Tony Blair

  Thinking, Groups, Looks

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• Repressive states are developing weapons that could cause destruction on a massive scale.

  Tony Blair

  Weapons, Causes, Destruction

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• I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that the intelligence was genuine.

  Tony Blair

  Doubt, Mind, Genuine

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• It is absurd to say in respect of any intelligence that it is infallible, but if you ask me what I believe, I believe the intelligence was correct, and I think in the end we will have an explanation.

  Tony Blair

  Believe, Thinking, Absurd

  "Powell admits weapons may not be found" by Duncan Campbell, Richard Norton-Taylor, www.theguardian.com. January 25, 2004.

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• What is true about (ex-Iraq Survey Group head) David Kay's evidence, and this is something I have to accept, and is one of the reasons why I think we now need a new inquiry - it is true David Kay is saying we have not found large stockpiles of actual weapons.

  Tony Blair

  Thinking, Reason Why, Groups

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• What we also know is we haven't found them [weapons of mass destruction] in Iraq - now let the survey group complete its work and give us the report... They will not report that there was no threat from Saddam, I don't believe.

  Tony Blair

  Believe, Mass Destruction, Giving

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• They could have been removed. They could have been hidden. They could have been destroyed.

  Tony Blair

  Could Have Been, Has Beens, Destroyed

  "Blair: Iraqi WMD May Never Be Found", www.foxnews.com. July 6, 2004.

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• The evidence about Saddam having actual biological and chemical weapons, as opposed to the capability to develop them, has turned out to be wrong. I acknowledge that and accept it. I simply point out, such evidence was agreed by the whole international community, not least because Saddam had used such weapons against his own people and neighbouring countries.

  Tony Blair

  Country, People, Community

  "Blair's speech" by Andrew Sparrow, www.telegraph.co.uk. September 29, 2004.

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• And the problem is, I can apologise for the information that turned out to be wrong, but I can't, sincerely at least, apologise for removing Saddam.

  Tony Blair

  Information, Problem, Sincerely

  Speech to the Labour Party Conference, 28 September 2004, www.independent.co.uk.

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• The world is a better place with Saddam in prison not in power.

  Tony Blair

  World, Prison, Better Place

  "Speech to the Labour Party Conference". www.independent.co.uk. September 28, 2004.

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• The view we took at the time and we take it now is that the war was justified legally because he [Saddam Hussein] remained in breach of UN resolutions.

  Tony Blair

  War, Views, Hussein

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• Since the Bush-Cheney Administration took office in January 2001, controlling the major oil and natural gas fields of the world had been the primary, though undeclared, priority of US foreign policy... Not only the invasion of Iraq, but also the toppling of the Taliban in Afghanistan, had nothing to do with 'democracy,' and everything to do with pipeline control across Central Asia and the militarization of the Middle East.

  F. William Engdahl

  Oil, Office, Priorities

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