Kellie Pickler Quotes

I think the world is much better off without Saddam Hussein than with him.

Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein brutally repressed all forms of opposition to his regime, and before the Iraq War, al Qaeda had no presence in Iraq.

Unquestionably, the world is better off without Saddam.

I had first visited Kurdistan in 2003 before the invasion of Iraq, camping out in Erbil and Sulaimaniya while waiting for Saddam Hussein's fall.

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

It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.

Saddam, as most tyrants, was a total control freak. He wanted total control of his regime. Total control of the country. And to introduce a wild card like Al Qaeda in any sense was just something he would not do.

The notion that we won the war against Iraq is like saying we won a war against Arizona. I mean, the fact of the matter is it's not that big of a country. Nobody, I don't think, had any notion that we would do anything but win it.

There's no connection between al-Qaeda and Iraq.

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

We’re not occupiers. We’re liberators.

We talk about democracy and human rights. Iraqis talk about justice and honor.

Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt that he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us.

Thinking about the war now and the occupation later is not an acceptable solution.

I would hope that we have in place the adequate resources to become an army of occupation because you’re going to walk into chaos

The question in my mind then is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth? And the answer is not very damned many.

Special interests and the demented philosophy of conquest have driven most wars throughout history. Rarely has the cause of liberty, as it was in our own revolution, been the driving force.

Iraq is better without Saddam Hussein than with Saddam Hussein. Without a doubt.

At the end of the day, Iraq was a part of the fight against terrorism.

I don't think anyone would disagree with the conclusion that Saddam [Hussein] was a terrible dictator. He had gassed his own people and his neighbors. He had killed thousands of people, and he had started a couple of wars and destroyed his country.

The soldiers of Saddam Hussein have given them a lesson they will never forget.

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

Imagine a world in which you had Saddam Hussein, who had the capacity to make a weapon of mass destruction, who was paying suiciders to kill innocent life. Imagine what the world would be like with him in power. The idea is to try to help change the Middle East. Part of the reason we went into Iraq was we thought he had weapons of mass destruction. It turns out he didn't, but he had the capacity to make weapons of mass destruction.

The world is a better place because Saddam Hussein does not in Iraq.

I believe the world would have been a lot worse off if Saddam [Hussein] were in power today.