Elizabeth Dole Quotes

All around the world one heard or read that there was no connection between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda.

But there is scant evidence to tie Saddam to terrorist organizations, and even less to the Sept. 11 attacks.

There's overwhelming evidence... circumstantial and otherwise, to suggest a connection between Iraq and al Qaeda.

In the post-9/11 world you cannot give him the benefit of the doubt. As a result of our going into Iraq, not only is Saddam Hussein gone, but Qaddafi has given up his weapons of mass destruction and tremendous progress is being made in Iraq.

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.

The reality is, it will be a significant conflict going for many, many months, if not longer. Saddam Hussein is not a fool. He hasn't been sitting there waiting to get shot for 13 years.

You can’t separate the struggle against the Baathists (of Iraq) from the struggle against global terrorism.

Undersecretary of Defense Doug Feith was equally insistent in 2002-2003 about an operational relationship between al Qaeda and the Iraqi government.

Contrary to what the Americans frequently reiterated, al-Qaeda did not have any relationship with Saddam Hussein or his regime.

I mean, there was a serious international effort to say to Saddam Hussein: 'You're a threat'. And the 9/11 attacks accentuated that threat, as far as I'm concerned.

People seem to forget that Saddam was the only leader in the world who praised the attacks of 9/11 as a good thing.

We've had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with the September 11th.

There have been linkages between the Iraqi government and al-Qaeda going back more or less a decade.

I just think everything we do has an unintended consequence. We take out Saddam Hussein in Iraq, and Iraq was the check against Iran.

There's no connection between al-Qaeda and Iraq.

The West sold Saddam Hussein the chemical weapons that he used.

Prior to 9-11, we did not have a single intelligence agent inside Iraq.

Saddam Hussein and people like him were very much involved in 9/11.

If, for a moment, it seemed that September 11th could be identified with Iraq, the illusion was short-lived.

I don't think the British or American governments really want to fight the Islamic State. They just want to look as if they are doing so.

What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.

The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror. We've removed an ally of al Qaeda.

John Kerry presented his confidence and his convictions. It's not about confidence, it's about evidence. The Russians have completely opposite evidence that the missiles were thrown from an area where the rebels control. This reminds me - what Kerry said - about the big lie that Collin Powell said in front of the world on satellites about the WMD in Iraq before going to war. He said "this is our evidence."

So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real.

Would the Iraq War have occurred without WMD? I doubt it.