#iraq

The new Congress needs to move quickly to strengthen the Army and Marines - not to send more troops to Iraq - but to rebuild our capacity to meet national security threats globally. ↗

— Mark Udall

#capacity #congress #globally #iraq #marines

If we can rebuild Iraq, we can rebuild Illinois and Indiana and if we can do Baghdad, we can do Baltimore. ↗

— Carol Moseley Braun

#baltimore #illinois #indiana #iraq #rebuild

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

— Paul Bremer

#dead #finished #iraq #out #saddam

So to recap: we may or may not be going to war with Iraq because Saddam may or may not have weapons of mass destruction, which he may or may not use, or pass to other terrorists groups with whom he may or may not have links. ↗

— Rory Bremner

#destruction #going #groups #iraq #links

I think the Iraqi people have shown extraordinary patience and courage in the last few months. They have really put a political system on the way to success, to a real democracy here. ↗

— Paul Bremer

#democracy #extraordinary #few #here #i

I think the Iraq War is not particularly tailored to American interests. ↗

— Peter Brimelow

#american interests #i #i think #interests #iraq

The reality in Iraq is that we are creating new terrorists and severely damaging the public impression of the United States in the Muslim world. ↗

— Sherrod Brown

#damaging #impression #iraq #muslim #muslim world

We were told this war would be over in a matter of weeks, and that the Iraqis would be able to finance it with oil sales. We were promised it was not a mission of nation building. ↗

— Sherrod Brown

#building #finance #iraqis #matter #mission

The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East, from Britain's belated empire-building after the First World War to the US and British policy that condemns modern Iraq to the material and social squalor of a half-century ago. ↗

— James Buchan

#ago #answer #belated #britain #british

From watching the news one would think the Iraqis want us out of their country. But an overwhelming majority of Iraqis support our involvement there. Our freedom is contagious and we helped liberate them. ↗

— Jim Bunning

#country #freedom #helped #involvement #iraqis