Adam Schiff Quotes

We, Britain and Germany, can neither of us be happy about our handling of the Iraq war.

Nations want the United States to fight their wars, until they go bad.

Could you imagine if the U.N. had endorsed the war in Iraq, what our reputation would be like?

The 2003 war in Iraq may be considered the greatest error in American policy since the Civil War. Its ramifications are earth-shattering and will impact us and our safety for generations. It may completely unravel the entire Middle East forever.

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

Being an occupier is not good for anybody's global standing. It is a catalyst for terrorist recruitment.

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

The Iraq war was not necessary.

In the issue war in Iraq, it was very clear to me that the policies that were being espoused by neoconservatives were totally devoid of substance - but they marketed it wonderfully.

The Iraq War has been the most dangerous and costly foreign policy debacle in our nation’s history.

The war in Iraq has fractured the political will of the United States and the world.

Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if we're fighting a war on terror.

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

I do not believe, given her past decisions and comments on the reasons to go to war in Iraq, that Dr. Rice will be able to represent the United States without a predetermined bias from the war.

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

As the criminal, sinful war in Iraq enters its third year, the president goes to Europe to heal the wounds between the United States and its former allies, on his own terms of course.

It's true that the war in Iraq opened a distance in relations between part of Europe and the U.S. government, but our basic ties are stronger than that. We share democracy, free markets and a commitment to Western security. We differ on how to guarantee that security.

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.

We must win in Iraq. If we withdraw, there will be chaos; there will be genocide; and they will follow us home.

I thought Iraq was the wrong war at the wrong time and have been fighting to get the Administration to stop its failed policy and bring our troops home.

We have a substantial number of countries that have pledged and provided all kinds of support for the United States in the event that war becomes necessary in Iraq.

Woe to the statesman whose reason for entering a war do not appear so plausible at its end as at its beginning.

History will show that perhaps we did not think through the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad. But here we are.

Right now, I have nothing against America, except for the fact that it opposes the Palestinian people, and is destroying Iraq. Apart from this, America and I agree on everything.

I support the current operational position and tactics in Iraq, but we’re in a bad place, we didn’t need to be there, and we shouldn’t do it again.