In Every Single Case, The Truth Is That The Atmosphere Created By The Iraq Invasion And The Staggeringly Mismanaged Occupation Has Incited Terrorists To Act. It's Been A Contributing Factor. It's Unavoidable Throughout Europe - In Spain, In Germany, In Britain. The Truth Is That We Need Long-term American Policy To Shift In Order To Really Soak Up And Get Rid Of These Sources Of Terrorism That Threaten Our Western Allies.
Who Was It In Afghanistan Who Screwed Up In Tora Bora And Let Bin Laden Escape? It Was The Bush Administration. Who Leached All The Resources, Military And Civil, From Afghanistan, Creating The Instability That We See There Today In Order To Prepare For The Misbegotten Invasion Of Iraq? It Was The Bush Administration. If There's A Terrorist Problem Today, Who Is Responsible Now? Bush Has Not Done The Job.
We Can No Longer Afford The War In Iraq. Our Financial Costs Have Already Passed A Third Of A Trillion Dollars; The Lifetime Costs For This War, In Both Human And Economic Terms, Will Be Borne By Americans For Generations To Come.
At A Time When 2500 American Soldiers Have Given Their Lives For The Cause Of Bringing Democracy To Iraq, It Is Sad And Frustrating To Watch The Republican Establishment Disgrace The Exercise Of Democracy In Our Own House Of Representatives.
I Think We've, Again, Got To Be Extremely Careful; Otherwise We'll Misunderstand What's Going On In Iraq And In Syria Today. Of Course, You Can't Say That Those Of Us Who Removed Saddam In 2003 Bear No Responsibility For The Situation In 2015.
I Mean, You Can Agree Or Disagree With Iraq Or Afghanistan, But By The Way, Now The Great Campaigning Cause Out There Is The Absence Of Intervention In Syria. And Then In Libya, It's Partial Intervention. And That Doesn't Really Explain Why Some Countries That Have Literally Nothing To Do With The Interventions In The Middle East End Up Getting Targeted.
There Are Literally Thousands Of Sites. As I Was Told In Iraq, Information Is Coming In The Entire Time, But It Is Only Now That The Iraq Survey Group Has Been Put Together That A Dedicated Team Of People, Which Includes Former Un Inspectors, Scientists And Experts, Will Be Able To Go In And Do The Job Properly.
I Have Absolutely No Doubt At All That We Will Find Evidence Of Weapons Of Mass Destruction Programmes.
Repressive States Are Developing Weapons That Could Cause Destruction On A Massive Scale.