“Well, I arrived knowing we were there because we’d been attacked. It was very different from the Iraq conflict in that sense. But, also, while I was there, it was increasingly difficult to understand what our goal was. And the thing that has made me feel a greater and greater sense of urgency about…”— Pete Buttigieg, newyorker.com
“Well, it’s a horror. The war is a total disaster. It seems to me to be almost worse than Vietnam. I really like the Bush policies on taxation. I really believe in them. It’s good. It puts people to work. But the war is a total catastrophe. And if anything is going to bring him down, that’s it.”— Donald Trump, amazon.com
“We view the path of the present administration as corroding the international standards the United States had as a negotiator, a mediator and a compromiser for good. Frankly, we lost our way. We did not allow the UN inspectors to proceed in completing their work and did not allow a vigorous internat…”— Sheila Jackson Lee, en.wikiquote.org
“A spokesperson for the Trump campaign did not return a request for comment on whether Trump voted for Bush or why he gave different answers to the question at different times.”— Andrew Kaczynski, cnn.com
“In a 2009 radio interview with Don Imus uncovered by CNN's KFile, Donald Trump claimed he did not vote for President George W. Bush. Four years earlier, in an interview on Fox News following the 2004 presidential election, Trump said the exact opposite: that he did vote Bush despite his opposition t…”— Andrew Kaczynski, cnn.com
“After we had made those hard-fought sacrifices and gains, we should never have made such a sudden withdrawal – on a timetable advertised to our enemies. Al Qaeda in Iraq had been decimated, and Obama and Clinton gave it new life and allowed it to spread across the world.”— Donald Trump, politico.com
“I was an opponent of the Iraq war from the beginning – a major difference between me and my opponent.”— Donald Trump, politico.com
“Never, ever underestimate a people's pride, no matter how broken theymight be. It is very easy for Iraqis to hate Saddam and resent America for overstaying. Tap into people's dignity and they will do anything for you. Ignore it, and they won't lift a finger. Which is why a Pakistani friend tells me…”— Thomas Friedman, nytimes.com
“We spent two trillion dollars doing whatever we did in Iraq. I still don’t know why we did it, but we did. Iraq is sitting on an ocean of oil. Is it out of line to suggest that they should contribute to their own future? And after the blood and the money we spent trying to bring some semblance of st…”— Donald Trump, amazon.com