Jay Leno Quotes

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

Think of what happened after 9/11, the minute before there was any assessment, there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq, and so the war drums beat.

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

The Iraq war was not necessary.

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

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

The war in Iraq will end, our troops will come home, Bush will be impeached and he will be brought to justice.

The issue of what my role in the - in persuading the Bush administration to go to war has been greatly exaggerated.

The war in Iraq has as much to do with terrorism as the administration has to do with compassion.

When Bush first got elected, the very first time there was talk of going to war with Iraq, the mainstream media gave his position total credibility. I didn't get it then, and I don't get it now.

For three years now, our brave men and women in uniform have done everything their country has asked of them, yet President Bush still does not have a plan to win the peace in Iraq and bring our troops home.

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.

The first weekend after the attacks of September 11, George W. Bush had a meeting at Camp David with his top advisors, including Colin Powell, the secretary of state. And there was a lively debate about Iraq policy, in which some people from the Pentagon were arguing that the war against terrorism should include Saddam Hussein.

Members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff opposed the Iraq “surge” to a man.

George W. Bush is always protesting that he has the fate of the world in mind and bangs on about the 'freedom-loving peoples' he's seeking to protect. I'd love to meet a freedom-hating people.

I landed in Kabul the day before Shock and Awe in Iraq, and you could all but hear the collective groan.

I did not believe in the Iraq war.

It was a tough press conference for President Bush. He spent the first ten minutes trying to pronounce Fallujah. ... Bush insisted that Iraq is not Vietnam. Of course not, he avoided Vietnam.

The Democrats say that President Bush doesn't have an exit strategy for Iraq. Of course he does. If things don't go well, he exits in November.

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

The best power of all is to be free, but Obama is not a free person. He is a prisoner of a military system. He talked about closing Guantanamo and ending the war in Iraq. Now he's taken on another war. What's happening?

America has lost the moral high ground with the rest of the world, and we have fewer allies as a result. President Bush and his administration have undermined the war on terror by using tactics outlawed by international treaty and condemned by even our closest friends.

The Bush administration said today there is a lot of support for us to attack Iraq. Exxon, Mobil, Texaco, Chevron, they're all lining up.

The Iraq war took priority over domestic disaster prevention.

As you know, I did not support the United States' engagement in Iraq and have long had concerns about Afghanistan... But I obviously have always been 100 percent supportive of our military.