Peter Brimelow Quotes

I mean, we're going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as I'm alive.

The only one who thinks the world is safer since the occupation of Iraq is Bush.

I did not believe in the Iraq war.

In July of 2004, I came out strongly against the war with Iraq because it was going to destabilize the Middle East.

The Iraq war was not necessary.

Well, what I've said is that the war in Iraq will always be clouded by how it began, which was a wrong premise, that there were in fact no weapons of nuclear - weapons of mass destruction.

When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the threat of terror, as it has.

After the invasion of Afghanistan, when the focus suddenly turned toward Iraq, I suddenly thought, 'What on earth had Iraq got to do with the war on terror?'

And the problem is, I can apologise for the information that turned out to be wrong, but I can't, sincerely at least, apologise for removing Saddam.

I still agree with the invasion of Iraq. I don't agree with most of the decisions that accompanied it.

The Pentagon still has not given a name to the Iraqi war. Somehow 'Operation Re-elect Bush' doesn't seem to be popular.

This war in Iraq is part of a larger effort to remove this terrorist threat from the planet.

My journalistic mission was straightforward: to await the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Nobody knew quite when this would be. But the diplomacy - the meetings in the U.N. security council, the allegations about weapons of mass destruction, the martial language of Tony Blair and George W. Bush - all suggested a war was brewing.

I am an opponent of Saddam Hussein, but an opponent also, of the sanctions that have killed a million Iraqi children and an opponent of the United States' apparent desire to plunge the Middle East into a new and devastating war.

Don't invade Iraq. Inspections work, war won't.

I said in October of 2008 that there was no proof that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or had the intention or capability of attacking the United States. Here we are. Almost 4,700 troops died, tens of thousands injured, over a million Iraqis dead. It will cost $5 trillion in the end for the war.

I know the war in Iraq is controversial in the States, but for us in the Middle East it has made a great and significant impact.

They have called Operation Iraqi Freedom a war of choice that isn't part of the real war on terror. Someone should tell that to al Qaeda.

It was pretty clear in 2002 to anyone in the intelligence community that is where we were headed.[To war with Iraq].

In order to have defense here at home, we have to have offense in Iraq and Iran.

I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil …. Whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein's 'weapons of mass destruction,' American and British authorities were also concerned about violence in an area that harbors a resource indispensable for the functioning of the world economy

I'm one of the ones who believed the Iraq War was a complete mistake from the very beginning.

I was very much in favor of the Iraq invasion.

If the Obama regime gave a hoot about 'humanitarian crisis,' the Obama regime would not have orchestrated humanitarian crisis in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and Yemen.

The decision to attack Iraq in March 2003 was discretionary; it was a war of choice.