Quotes About Invading Iraq

#1. What was the reason for invading Iraq' Was it a humanitarian crusade or an economic one' I would be inclined to say the latter. It was the same with the Civil War, because the landed gentry's money was being stolen by the king.

Dougray Scott

#2. [Invading Iraq] will unite the entire Arab world against the West.

Richard Dawkins

#3. The President, in talking about freedom and democracy, is sparking a wave of very positive democratic sentiment that might help us override both Islamic fundamentalism that has formed in that region, and also some of the hatred for our policies of invading Iraq.

Bill Richardson

#4. [Invading Iraq] would create generations that hated the USA.

Jerry Springer

#5. The consequence of Mr. Bush's and Blair's historic lie that the reason for invading Iraq was weapons of mass destruction, is that everything is being doubted.

Walid Jumblatt

#6. Genius, scholar, and war hero though he is, you have to admit - or maybe you should think about admitting - that George Bush might have rushed things a little in invading Iraq.

Alan Colmes

#7. We have it. The smoking gun. The evidence. The potential weapon of mass destruction we have been looking for as our pretext of invading Iraq. There's just one problem - it's in North Korea.

Jon Stewart

#8. As many people have chronicled, the decision to fight in Vietnam was a years-long accretion of step-by-step choices, each of which could be rationalized at the time. Invading Iraq was an unforced, unnecessary decision to risk everything on a 'war of choice' whose costs we are still paying.

James Fallows

#9. The evil lot who did that thing on September 11 did it because they wanted to create a war between America and Islam. And by invading Iraq, we gave them what they hoped for.

Billy Bragg

#10. Speaker John Boehner complained that Barack Obama ordered the U.S. military into combat in Libya without clearly defining the mission to the American people and Congress. See, apparently, you're only allowed to do that when invading Iraq.

Jay Leno

#11. One is only young once, but in her case it was once to often.

Louis De Bernieres

#12. Kuwait was always historically part of Iraq. Like Nehru invading Portuguese Goa.

Frederick Forsyth

#13. The war with Iraq ... had to be one of the greatest non sequiturs in military history. Attacked by a gang composed largely of Islamic militants from Saudi Arabia, the United States countered by invading an unrelated country, and one of the most secular in the Middle East at that.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#14. Wars can be resolved. Human rights atrocities can be stopped. We just have to apply the right policies.

John Prendergast

#15. You are free to travel on the road you pave for yourself but you have to pay penalty if you do not go in the right direction.

Amit Abraham

#16. It is what I was born for - to look, to listen, to lose myself inside this soft world - to instruct myself over and over ...

Mary Oliver

#17. But love is much like a dam; if you allow a tiny crack to form through which only a trickle of water can pass, that trickle will quickly bring down the whole structure and soon no one will be able to control the force of the current.

Paulo Coelho

#18. Whether we know it or not, our minds and hearts are populated by all the characters we will ever need - though we may disassemble them and rearrange the parts into composites for variation.

David Corbett

#19. A sunset a forest a snow storm a certain river view are more to me than many friends.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#20. We must do that which we think we cannot.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#21. We always wanted to make a comedy that was a little bit more than that, which had tragic elements to it ... that people engaged with - an intelligent comedy essentially.

Alice Lowe

#22. Success is not as easy as winners make it look nor as hard as losers make it sound.

Orrin Woodward

#23. I have traveled outside the mountains, but never lived apart from them. I always feared mountains would be as jealous, as unforgiving, as any spurned lover. Leave them and they may never take you back. Besides, I never felt a need to go. There is enough to study in these hills to last a lifetime.

Denise Giardina

#24. I don't see why not," I all but snapped at him. "His body was experimented upon, and there are records of it. What else would you call it?"
"I don't know. Necropsy?

Cherie Priest

#25. Making 'Coraline' was one of the great filmmaking experiences of my life.

Henry Selick

#26. If we do everything right, the best we can do is live out our potential with as little age-related disease and disability as possible.

S. Jay Olshansky

#27. everything you touch will begin to transmute itself into an asset for your benefit.

Napoleon Hill