Iraq Quotes - Page 3

• We have high confidence that they have weapons of mass destruction. That is what this war was about and it is about.

  Ari Fleischer

  War, Mass Destruction, Weapons

  "The Rachel Maddow Show" with Rachel Maddow, www.msnbc.com. August 31, 2010.

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• When there happens to be a weapon of mass destruction suspect site in an area that we occupy and if people have time, they'll look at it.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Mass Destruction, People, Looks

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• I don't think we'll discover anything, myself. I think what will happen is we'll discover people who will tell us where to go find it. It is not like a treasure hunt where you just runaround looking everywhere hoping you find something. I just don't think that's going to happen. The inspectors didn't find anything, and I doubt that we will. What we will do is find the people who will tell us.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Thinking, People, Doubt

  Pentagon Town Hall Meeting, www.freerepublic.com. April 17, 2003.

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• We are learning more as we interrogate or have discussions with Iraqi scientists and people within the Iraqi structure, that perhaps he destroyed some, perhaps he dispersed some... And so we will find them.

  George W. Bush

  Wmd, Mass Destruction, People

  Interview with Tom Brokaw, www.nytimes.com. April 25, 2003.

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• There are people who in large measure have information that we need . . . so that we can track down the weapons of mass destruction in that country.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Country, Wmds In Iraq, Mass Destruction

  Defense Department Briefing, www.c-span.org. April 25, 2003.

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• He tried to fool the United Nations, and did for 12 years, by hiding these weapons. And so, it's going to take time to find them. But we know he had them. And whether he destroyed them, moved them, or hid them, we're going to find out the truth.

  George W. Bush

  Years, Fool, Weapons

  George W. Bush's Remarks at Lima Army Tank Plant in Lima, Ohio, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. April 24, 2003.

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• We'll find them. It'll be a matter of time to do so.

  George W. Bush

  Matter, Matter Of Time

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• 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

  Wmd, Mass Destruction, Weapons

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

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• We never believed that we'd just tumble over weapons of mass destruction in that country.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Country, Wmd, Mass Destruction

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

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

  George W. Bush

  Wmd, Mass Destruction, Hussein

  George W. Bush's remarks after meeting with the Secretary of Defense, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. May 6, 2003.

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• They may have had time to destroy them, and I don't know the answer.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Wmd, Mass Destruction, Answers

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• The coalition did not act in Iraq because we had discovered dramatic new evidence of Iraq's pursuit. We acted because we saw the evidence in a dramatic new light - through the prism of our experience on 9/11.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Light, Saws, Dramatic

  "Rumsfeld: War not prompted by new proof", www.cnn.com. July 10, 2003.

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• I just don't know whether it was all destroyed years ago - I mean, there's no question that there were chemical weapons years ago - whether they were destroyed right before the war, (or) whether they're still hidden.

  David Petraeus

  War, Mean, Wmd

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• The war in Iraq - if Osama was a Christian - it's the Christmas present he never would have expected.

  Michael Scheuer

  Christmas, Christian, War

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• I share the administration's goals in dealing with Iraq and its weapons of mass destruction.

  Dick Gephardt

  Wmd, Mass Destruction, Goal

  "Congressional reaction to Iraq resolution is mixed", www.cnn.com. September 20, 2002.

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• The "Axis of Evil" was - and is - very real, as the tyrants of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea knew full well.

  Michael A. Ledeen

  Real, Axes, Iran

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• In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Succeed, Failure Is Not An Option

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• Even if we give first priority to the destruction of terrorist networks, and even if we succeed, there are still governments that could bring us great harm. And there is a clear case that one of these governments in particular represents a virulent threat in a class by itself: Iraq. As far as I am concerned, a final reckoning with that government should be on the table.

  Al Gore

  Government, Class, Giving

  "A Commentary on the War Against Terror: Our Larger Tasks". Address to the Council on Foreign Relations, February 12, 2002.

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• The completion of the Iraqi cabinet with the appointment of three critical ministers is also confirmation of continued movement toward a just and democratic society in Iraq.

  Spencer Bachus

  Three, Movement, Cabinets

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• It was Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda who attacked the U.S. on September 11, 2001, not Saddam Hussein and Iraq.

  Peter DeFazio

  September 11, Hussein, Als

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• So the idea that you could put Kurds, Shiite Arabs, and Sunni Arabs in a nice, liberal, federal system in Iraq in a short amount of time, six months or a year, boggles the mind.

  William Eldridge Odom

  Nice, Years, Ideas

  "Q&A: Odom on an Iraq Exit Strategy". Interview with Bernard Gwertzman, www.nytimes.com. May 7, 2004.

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

  Paul Bremer

  Alive, Thrown, Saddam

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• Despite recent media reports that have clouded, or even misrepresented, the facts, there is compelling evidence that al-Qaida and Iraq have been linked for more than a decade.

  Elizabeth Dole

  Media, Als, Facts

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• When Americans invade Iraq, Bush says, we will be greeted as liberators by the Iraqi people, proving that taking out Saddam Hussein was the right thing to do.

  Howard Fineman

  People, Hussein, Things To Do

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• The art of coalition command - whether it is here in Afghanistan, whether it was in Iraq or in Bosnia or in Haiti - is to take the resources you are provided with, understand what the strengths and weaknesses are and to employ them to the best overall effect.

  David Petraeus

  Art, Weakness, Bosnia

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