Wesley Clark Quotes

It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in 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.

Anybody who believes that we can democratize Iran, Iraq and Syria by military force is living in a fantasy world.

The war in Iraq was unwinnable.

By threatening war against Iran, Iraq and North Korea in his now-famous "Axis of Evil" address, the president painted himself into a corner. Either Bush now goes to war against one of these regimes, or he will be humiliated and exposed as a bellicose bluff.

We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.

Iraq is not about oil.

We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.

So to recap: we may or may not be going to war with Iraq because Saddam may or may not have weapons of mass destruction, which he may or may not use, or pass to other terrorists groups with whom he may or may not have links.

I just think everything we do has an unintended consequence. We take out Saddam Hussein in Iraq, and Iraq was the check against Iran.

I could have been very popular if I had launched a military attack on Iran but I chose patience.

By invading Iraq, the President has undermined the War on Terrorism.

We can deal with Iran if it is a nation but not if it is a cause.

I don't believe in regime change, certainly not in the Middle East.

In 2001, we were told that the war in Afghanistan was a feminist mission. The marines were liberating Afghan women from the Taliban. Can you really bomb feminism into a country? And now, after 25 years of brutal war - 10 years against the Soviet occupation, 15 years of US occupation - the Taliban is riding back to Kabul and will soon be back to doing business with the United States.

I believe demolishing Hussein's military power and liberating Iraq would be a cakewalk.

As we head to war with Iraq, President Bush wants to make one thing clear: This war is not about oil. It's about gasoline.

I saw Donald [Trump] saying that there were some Iranian sailors on a ship in the waters off of Iran, and they were taunting American sailors who were on a nearby ship. He said, you know, if they taunted our sailors, I'd blow them out of the water and start another war. That's not good judgment.

We've mismanaged going into Iraq.

Saddam was a threat, that the threat had to be dealt with.

The L.A. Times reports that al Qaeda terrorists have been traced to Iran, and President Bush is talking tough. In fact he said he will attack the minute he has evidence his approval rating is under 45 percent.

I only find out where countries are when we start bombing them.

Few knew in 2000 that Bush was going to end up with neoconservatives all over the place. And once 9/11 happened, I think it's fair to say that eight or nine neocons have had an enormous influence. The whole solution to every problem was to go after Iraq. This had been a neoconservative mantra for ten years. There was no secret about it.

I don't know what our capabilities are. If I were there, I think it would be nutty to do that. The only country on Earth more containable than Iran is Iraq. And we've certainly made a mistake there. We could have continued Saddam.

If we can kill Saddam, we should.