Mitt Romney Quotes

I think Tony Blair has to come down on one side or the other. You can't be a half-hearted supporter of the possible attack on Iraq. You're either with George Bush or you're against him.

I believe very deeply in the proposition that what we did in Iraq was the right thing to do. It was hard to do. It took a long time. There were significant costs involved.

I believe that President [George W.] Bush was correct. I thought that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, and I supported him steadfastly, and once we committed we should see it through.

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

There was no such thing as Al Qaeda in Iraq, until George Bush and John McCain decided to invade Iraq.

I think it was right to remove Saddam Hussein. I think it was the right decision then and I still think it was right now.

In December of 2002, the late Richard Corliss, a respected movie critic with a long and illustrious career, wrote an embarrassing letter of support for the invasion and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan in the guise of a Time magazine review of Peter Jackson's The Two Towers.

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.

And I think the almost undeviating support by Great Britain for the ill-advised policies of President Bush in Iraq have been a major tragedy for the world.

It's just a matter of time before we go into Iraq and get Saddam Hussein. I think just before Bush falls below 50 percent, that's when we'll be going.

I look at what the president [Barack Obama] it doing, it adds up to me. We just have to keep - try to get more support for those people on the ground in Syria and Iraq who have to actually physically take the territory back.

Unlike Hillary Clinton, who voted for the war without knowing what she was doing, I would not have had our people in Iraq. Iraq was disaster.

Iraq was invaded to secure Israel and everybody knows it.

I'm the one who didn't want to go into Iraq.

By linking these countries together in his 'axis of evil' speech, President Bush implied an identity between them not only in terms of their threat, but also in terms of the action necessary to deal with the threat. A lot of work will now need to be done to delink the three, and to show why military action against Iraq is so much more justified than against Iran and North Korea.

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

We are caught in the Middle East in supporting the bad guys in order to get rid of the worse guys.

I don’t think that we have ever had a coherent strategy on Iraq.

Most liberals I know were for invading Afghanistan right after 9/11.

I would have voted 'no' on the Iraq war and 'yes' to Afghanistan.

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?'

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

America went into Iraq. We shouldn't have gone into Iraq. We shouldn't have gotten out the way we got out. The world is a total mess.

What I want to know is why in the world the Democratic party leadership is supporting the president's unilateral attack on Iraq?

President Bush admitted that the United States went to war in Iraq based on bad intelligence. But he says knowing what we know now he would still do it again. So at least we're learning from our mistakes.