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Wars & Conflicts Quotes

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05/16/07	Mitt Romney				Wars & Conflicts

	Some people have said we ought to close Guantanamo. My view is we ought to double Guantanamo.
01/27/07	John McCain	Dick Cheney			The 2003 Iraq War was Unjustified and Fought on False Pretenses

	John McCain said,"The president listens too much to the vice president. Of course, the president bears the ultimate responsibility, but he's been very badly served by both the vice president and, most of all, the secretary of Defense." Dick Cheney's response: "So?" [CNN Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer]
01/27/07	Dick Cheney				The 2003 Iraq War was Unjustified and Fought on False Pretenses

	"Bottom line is that we've had enormous successes [on Iraq] and we will continue to have enormous successes". [CNN Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, 2007]
01/27/07	Dick Cheney				The 2003 Iraq War was Unjustified and Fought on False Pretenses

	"Defeat is not an answer. We can, in fact, prevail here [on Iraq] and we need to prevail. And the consequences of not doing so are enormous". [CNN Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, 2007]
01/27/07	Dick Cheney				The 2003 Iraq War was Unjustified and Fought on False Pretenses

	"The biggest problem we face right now is the danger than the United States will validate the terrorist's strategy... that says the Americans will not stay to complete the task ...that we don't have the stomach for the fight. That's the biggest threat." [CNN Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer. 2007]
01/14/07	Dick Cheney				The 2003 Iraq War was Unjustified and Fought on False Pretenses

	"This is an existential conflict. It is the kind of conflict that's going to drive our policy and our government for the next 20 or 30 or 40 years. We have to prevail and we have to have the stomach for the fight long term". [On Iraq War, 2007]
09/05/06	Glenn Beck				Wars & Conflicts

	In 10 years, Muslims and Arabs will be looking through a razor wire fence at the West.
01/20/06	Dick Cheney				The 2003 Iraq War was Unjustified and Fought on False Pretenses

	"I think we've had a lot of good news out of Iraq over the course of the last year. It's hard sometimes to see through that, given the continued level of violence, obviously". [Fox News, Sean Hannity interview]
01/10/06	Glenn Beck				Wars & Conflicts

	Cindy Sheehan. That's a pretty big prostitute there, you know what I mean?...Pretty hard to beat prostituting your son's death. Don't you think?
05/30/05	Dick Cheney				The 2003 Iraq War was Unjustified and Fought on False Pretenses

	"I'm absolutely convinced we did the right thing in Iraq". [CNN Larry King Interview, 2005]
05/30/05	Dick Cheney				The 2003 Iraq War was Unjustified and Fought on False Pretenses

	"I think we may well have some kind of presence there [Iraq] over a period of time. But I think the level of activity that we see today, from a military standpoint, I think will clearly decline. I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency". [CNN Larry King Interview, 2005]
05/30/05	Dick Cheney				The 2003 Iraq War was Unjustified and Fought on False Pretenses

	"America will be safer in the long run when Iraq and Afghanistan as well are no longer safe havens for terrorists or places where people can gather and plan and organize attacks against the United States". [CNN Larry King Interview, 2005]
10/07/04	Dick Cheney				The 2003 Iraq War was Unjustified and Fought on False Pretenses

	"The notion we could have waited, not done anything, and sooner or later Saddam would not be on the scene doesn't make any sense". [Oct 2004 Town Hall Meeting]
10/05/04	Dick Cheney				2001 Afghanistan War

	We've made enormous progress in Afghanistan, in exactly the right direction. [Three years after 9/11]
10/05/04	Dick Cheney				The 2003 Iraq War was Unjustified and Fought on False Pretenses

	"What we did in Iraq was exactly the right thing to do. If I had it to recommend all over again, I would recommend exactly the same course of action." [at 2004 VP Debate].
05/12/04	James Inhofe				Wars & Conflicts

	I'm probably not the only one up at this table that is more outraged by the outrage than we are by the treatment[during 2004 hearings on the Abu Ghraib prison scandal]. They are not there for traffic violations. If they're in cell block 1A or 1B, these prisoners -- they're murderers, they're terrorists, they're insurgents.
02/05/04	George W Bush Admin		Spoken		The 2003 Iraq War was Unjustified and Fought on False Pretenses & 2003 Iraq War
	As it turned out, however, two of the main human sources to which Powell referred had provided false information. One was an Iraqi con artist, code-named "Curveball," whom American intelligence offic...
	"What we're giving you are facts and conclusions based on solid intelligence. I will cite some examples, and these are from human sources."--Powell
01/28/04	George W Bush		Spoken		The 2003 Iraq War was Unjustified and Fought on False Pretenses & 2003 Iraq War
	Two weeks earlier, an analyst with the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research sent an email to colleagues in the intelligence community laying out why he believed the uranium-purchase...
	"The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa. Our intelligence sources tell us that he has attempted to purchase high-strength aluminum tubes suitable for nuclear weapons production."
05/29/03	George W Bush		Spoken		The 2003 Iraq War was Unjustified and Fought on False Pretenses & 2003 Iraq War
	But as journalist Bob Woodward reported in State of Denial, days earlier a team of civilian experts dispatched to examine the two mobile labs found in Iraq had concluded in a field report that the la...
	We found the weapons of mass destruction. We found biological laboratories."
09/01/02	George W Bush		Spoken		The 2003 Iraq War was Unjustified and Fought on False Pretenses & 2003 Iraq War
	A few days later, similar findings were also included in a much-hurried National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction — an analysis that hadn't been done in years, as the intel...
	"The Iraqi regime possesses biological and chemical weapons, is rebuilding the facilities to make more and, according to the British government, could launch a biological or chemical attack in as little as 45 minutes after the order is given. . . . This regime is seeking a nuclear bomb, and with fissile material could build one within a year."
08/26/02	Dick Cheney		Spoken		The 2003 Iraq War was Unjustified and Fought on False Pretenses & 2003 Iraq War
	In fact, former CIA Director George Tenet later recalled, Cheney's assertions went well beyond his agency's assessments at the time. Another CIA official, referring to the same speech, told journalis...
	"Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us."
03/04/02	James Inhofe				Wars & Conflicts

	I believe very strongly that we ought to support Israel; that it has a right to the land. This is the most important reason: Because God said so.
08/27/00	Dick Cheney				Wars & Conflicts

	"They were concerned that we not get into a position... in which we were an imperialist power willy-nilly moving into capitals in that part of the world taking down governments." [Referring to First Iraq War]
08/14/92	Dick Cheney				Wars & Conflicts

	"And the question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth? And the answer is not very damned many." [Referring to First Iraq War]
08/14/92	Dick Cheney				Wars & Conflicts

	"I would guess if we had gone in there, I would still have forces in Baghdad today, we’d be running the country. We would not have been able to get everybody out and bring everybody home." [Referring to the First Iraq War]

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