#iraq

If we don't have accurate information, if we are not able to tell difficult truth one to another, we will never be able to effectively design a policy for Iraq. ↗

— Jack Reed

#accurate #accurate information #another #design #difficult

We're in danger of breaking our army and preventing our national leaders from having the flexibility to confront not just Iraq and Afghanistan, but crises around the globe. ↗

— Jack Reed

#army #around #breaking #confront #crises

History will eventually depict as legitimate the efforts of the Iraqi resistance to destabilise and defeat the American occupation forces and their imposed Iraqi collaborationist government. ↗

— Scott Ritter

#defeat #depict #efforts #eventually #forces

I've been called a spy of Israel since 1996, and since I made my documentary film in 2000 the FBI has investigated me as an agent of Iraq. The FBI has also opened up an investigation into my wife calling her a KGB spy. ↗

— Scott Ritter

#also #been #called #calling #documentary

It is hard as an American to support the failure of American military operations in Iraq. Such failure will bring with it the death and wounding of many American service members, and many more Iraqis. ↗

— Scott Ritter

#american military #bring #death #failure #hard

The most dangerous thing Iraq could have ever had was a nuclear weapon. The nuclear weapon Iraq was trying to build was not deliverable by bomb or ballistic missile. It was a large, bulky device that they hoped to bury and set off to let the world know they had a nuclear weapon. They never achieved that. ↗

— Scott Ritter

#ballistic #bomb #build #bury #could

The only way an Iraqi biological agent would kill you is if it landed on your head. ↗

— Scott Ritter

#biological #head #iraqi #kill #landed

This is the year of Katrina and Iraq. How the war ends is more important than how it began. However you feel about the war, you have to be compassionate and loving towards our troops. ↗

— Geraldo Rivera

#began #compassionate #ends #feel #how

We were told by the president that we had no alternative but to go into Iraq because of the threat that Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction posed, but to date, these weapons have not been found. ↗

— Jay Rockefeller

#because #been #date #destruction #found

Our military is doing everything it can to equip Iraq's forces so our troops can come home as soon as possible, but we cannot leave until the job is done. ↗

— Mike Rogers

#come #doing #done #equip #everything