Iraq Quotes - Page 2

• Iraq can emerge as a beacon of hope and democracy in the Middle East, and the world, with our help.

  Chris Chocola

  Easter, Democracy, Middle East

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• His regime has had high-level contacts with al Qaeda going back a decade and has provided training to al Qaeda terrorists.

  Dick Cheney

  Training, Levels, Als

  Dick Cheney's speech at the Air National Guard Senior Leadership Conference in Denver, Colorado, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. December 2, 2002.

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• There clearly are contacts between al Qaeda and Iraq that can be documented; there clearly is testimony that some of the contacts have been important contacts and that there's a relationship here

  Condoleezza Rice

  Important, Als, Testimony

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• I am not going to give you a number for it because it's not my business to do intelligent work.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Stupid, Intelligent, Numbers

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• Freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Mistake, Stupid, People

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 12 Apr. 2003

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• We know he's been absolutely devoted to trying to acquire nuclear weapons, and we believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons.

  Dick Cheney

  Stupid, Believe, Trying

  "Did Bush Administration Deliberately Lie About Iraq's WMD?". "NEWS FROM CNN" with Wolf Blitzer, edition.cnn.com. July 9, 2003.

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• I don't know anybody that I can think of who has contended that the Iraqis had nuclear weapons.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Stupid, Thinking, Nuclear

  DoD News Briefing 24/6 - Rumsfeld and Gen. Myers, www.scoop.co.nz. June 26, 2003.

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• In Iraq, a ruthless dictator cultivated weapons of mass destruction and the means to deliver them. He gave support to terrorists, had an established relationship with al Qaeda, and his regime is no more.

  Dick Cheney

  Stupid, Mean, Mass Destruction

  Dick Cheney's speech for Bush-Cheney '04 in Austin, Texas, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. November 7, 2003.

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• We expected, I expected to find actual usable, chemical or biological weapons after we entered Iraq. But I have to accept, as the months have passed, it seems increasingly clear that at the time of invasion, Saddam did not have stockpiles of chemical or biological weapons ready to deploy.

  Tony Blair

  Invasion, Weapons, Months

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• Imagine the consequences if Saddam fails to comply and we fail to act. Saddam will be emboldened, believing the international community has lost its will. He will rebuild his arsenal of weapons of mass destruction. And some day, some way, I am certain, he will use that arsenal again, as he has ten times since 1983.

  Sandy Berger

  Believe, Mass Destruction, Community

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• No one has done what Saddam Hussein has done, or is thinking of doing. He is producing weapons of mass destruction, and he is qualitatively and quantitatively different from other dictators.

  Madeleine Albright

  Thinking, Wmd, Mass Destruction

  "U.S. policy on Iraq draws fire in Ohio". www.cnn.com. February 18, 1998.

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• He has systematically violated, over the course of the past 11 years, every significant UN resolution that has demanded that he disarm and destroy his chemical and biological weapons, and any nuclear capacity. This he has refused to do. He lies and cheats; he snubs the mandate and authority of international weapons inspectors; and he games the system to keep buying time against enforcement of the just and legitimate demands of the United Nations, the Security Council, the United States and our allies. Those are simply the facts.

  Henry Waxman

  Lying, Past, Wmd

  "Letters to the Editor". thetimes-tribune.com. May 23, 2010.

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• Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators.

  Frederick Stanley Maude

  Army, Land, Cities

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• While the distance between the United States and Iraq is great, Saddam Hussein's ability to use his chemical and biological weapons against us is not constrained by geography - it can be accomplished in a number of different ways - which is what makes this threat so real and persuasive.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Distance, Real, Numbers

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• The essential facts are known. We know of the weapons in Saddam's possession: chemical, biological, and nuclear in time. We know of his unequaled willingness to use them. We know his history. His invasions of his neighbors. His dreams of achieving hegemonic control over the Arab world. His record of anti-American rage. His willingness to terrorize, to slaughter, to suppress his own people and others. We need not stretch to imagine nightmare scenarios in which Saddam makes common cause with the terrorists who want to kill us Americans and destroy our way of life.

  Joe Lieberman

  Dream, People, Way

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• We are asked now seriously to accept that in the last few years-contrary to all history, contrary to all intelligence-Saddam decided unilaterally to destroy those weapons. I say that such a claim is palpably absurd.

  Tony Blair

  Years, Weapons, Lasts

  "Tony Blair's Iraq War speech in full: How Labour's leader convinced MPs to vote for era-defining conflict". Article by Dan Bloom, www.mirror.co.uk. July 5, 2016.

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• I don't concede it at all that the intelligence at the time was wrong.

  Tony Blair

  "Blair attacks MPs' report on Iraq". www.theguardian.com. July 8, 2003.

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

  Tony Blair

  Mass Destruction, Doubt, Weapons

  Interview with Matt Peacock, www.abc.net.au. July 9, 2003.

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

  Tony Blair

  Weapons, Chemicals, Expected

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• Iraq has stockpiled biological and chemical weapons, and is rebuilding the facilities used to make more of those weapons.

  George W. Bush

  Fields, Doe, Use

  "President: Iraqi Regime Danger to America is 'Grave and Growing'". Radio Address, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. October 5, 2002.

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• It appears to be a re-run of a bad movie. [Iraqi President Saddam Hussein] is delaying. He's deceiving. He's asking for time. He's playing hide-and-seek with inspectors. One thing is for certain - he's not disarming.

  George W. Bush

  Running, President, Asking

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• We know that Saddam Hussein is determined to keep his weapons of mass destruction, is determined to make more.

  Colin Powell

  Wmd, Mass Destruction, Hussein

  "The Hunt for Weapons of Mass Destruction: Weighing the Evidence and Isabel Allende". billmoyers.com. June 13, 2003.

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• So has the strategic decision been made to disarm Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction by the leadership in Baghdad? I think our judgment has to be clearly not.

  Colin Powell

  Thinking, Wmd, Mass Destruction

  Colin Powell Response to reports from U.N. weapons inspectors to the U.N. Security Council, edition.cnn.com. March 7, 2003.

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• One of our top objectives is to find and destroy the WMD. There are a number of sites.

  Victoria Clark

  Numbers, Wmd, Mass Destruction

  "Letters to the Editor". thetimes-tribune.com. May 23, 2010.

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• We are in the process of trying to liberate that country. And at the moment where the war ends and the coalition forces occupy the areas where those capabilities - chemical and biological weapons - are likely to be, to the extent they haven't been moved out of the country, it obviously is important to find them.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Country, War, Trying

  "Text: At the Pentagon". www.nytimes.com. April 10, 2003.

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