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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.

One year after the United States led the invasion of Iraq, the country remains extremely dangerous not only to our troops, but also to the stability of the world.

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

I think the Iraq War is not particularly tailored to American interests.

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

Afghanistan and Iraq were lumped together in what was called a 'global war on terrorism.'

The mistake that was made was, of course, leaving Saddam in charge of affairs over there.

Mission accomplished? The mission in Iraq, as laid out by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, has failed.

By ending the Hussein regime, the United States has taken away yet another incubator of terrorism.

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

I think the Bush Administration was bound and determined on regime change, and we will be paying the price of that for some time to come.

There is no question that what we are seeing - the horrible advance of ISIS - goes back, if you will, to the original sin of the invasion of Iraq.

I was very much in favor of the Iraq invasion.

I believe that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein. I believe it's clear that he had every intention to acquire and use weapons of mass destruction. I can only imagine what Saddam Hussein would be doing with the wealth he would acquire with oil at $110 and $120 a barrel.

The 2003 invasion of Iraq by U.S. and coalition partners stands as one of the greatest blunders in American history. The Islamic State, also known as ISIL or ISIS, rose out of the the chaos, throwing the region into turmoil that hasn't been equaled since the fall of the Ottoman Empire.

Our safety at home and the cause of freedom abroad is largely contingent upon our success in Iraq.

The war in Iraq, clearly has not turned out in the way that was hoped.

There's a certain amount of sympathy here for the Bush administration's problem, which is they would like to get rid of Saddam Hussein and they would like to have the Kurds autonomous.

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

We went into Iraq because Saddam Hussein refused to account for his weapons of mass destruction, consistently violated UN resolutions and in a post-9/11 world no American president could afford to give Saddam Hussein the benefit of the doubt.

If the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and it's clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush administration again.

After all the sacrifice in Afghanistan and Iraq, why do we find ourselves in a more dangerous world?

When Americans invade Iraq, Bush says, we will be greeted as liberators by the Iraqi people, proving that taking out Saddam Hussein was the right thing to do.

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.

We went into Iraq because Iraq posed a threat to the stability of the region and was engaged in the process of trying to develop weapons of mass destruction and had links to terrorists.