Joe Lieberman Quotes

[Saddam Hussein] is a threat because he is dealing with al-Qaeda. . . . A true threat facing our country is that an al-Qaeda-type network trained and armed by Saddam could attack America and not leave one fingerprint.

There have been linkages between the Iraqi government and al-Qaeda going back more or less a decade.

It was an agreement between Saddam (Hussein) and the shah of Iran and not between Iraq and Iran.

Saddam Hussein was a unique threat. And the world is better off without him in power.

We've had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with the September 11th.

All around the world one heard or read that there was no connection between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda.

But there is scant evidence to tie Saddam to terrorist organizations, and even less to the Sept. 11 attacks.

In 2002 and 2003, the Bush administration decided against bombing Zarqawi's camp in northern Iraq because it might derail plans to depose Saddam Hussein. By focusing on Zarqawi in his speech at the United Nations, Secretary of State Colin Powell inadvertently spread his fame throughout the Arab world.

Saddam Hussein and people like him were very much involved in 9/11.

Undersecretary of Defense Doug Feith was equally insistent in 2002-2003 about an operational relationship between al Qaeda and the Iraqi government.

Contrary to what the Americans frequently reiterated, al-Qaeda did not have any relationship with Saddam Hussein or his regime.

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

One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror.

We can't say whether Tehran is supporting Al Qaeda, but we do know that al-Qaida people come here from Pakistan through Iran.

Saddam Hussein certainly has chemical and biological weapons. There's no question about that.

We need to learn from history. These same leaders - [Barack] Obama, [Hillary] Clinton, and far too many Republicans - want to topple [Bashar] Assad. Assad is a bad man. Gadhafi was a bad man. Mubarak had a terrible human rights record. But they were assisting us - at least [Muammar] Gadhafi and [Hosni] Mubarak - in fighting radical Islamic terrorists.

One of the problems with Marco's [Rubio] foreign policy is he has far too often supported Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama undermining governments in the Middle East that have helped radical Islamic terrorists.

We need to deal with the problem of al Qaeda, make sure that they can't have a sanctuary in Afghanistan and guarantee that we have regional stabilization and particularly focused on Pakistan.

How could any responsible leader have ignored the Iraqi threat? If we had not acted, Saddam Hussein and his sons would still be in power.

Even the U.S. government agrees that some Saudi figures have been supporting ISIL, or ISIS.

I think it's a huge mistake. I think regime change in Syria, and this is what - I've been saying this for several years now. In 2013 when we first went in, I said, you are going to give arms to the allies of al Qaida, to radical jihadists? That's crazy.

Did business with Qatar, a US ally which protects al-Qaeda.

Within a week, or a month, Saddam could give his WMD to al-Qaeda.

I think they got it wrong with Saddam Hussein. They thought he had the A-Bomb. Instead he had a bomb.

The Mirror interviewed one of Osama bin Laden's sons and said bin Laden has 42 children. That's going to happen when you sleep in a different cave every night.