Johnny Isakson Quotes

We'll fight terrorists in Iraq, we'll fight them across the world, and we will stay in the fight until the fight is won.

I think the American people should know there's already strong influences toward another deployment of American troops in an open-ended commitment.

Iraq will require US occupation of undetermined length.

Iraq is not occupied, but there are foreign forces on its soil, which is different.

Nevertheless, I do know that we are part of a danger zone, we have military operations in Afghanistan and we're training the Iraqi police force. The terrorists also have us in their sights.

That's driven by any number of factors, the most prominent of which have been the combat experience of two major campaigns - one in Afghanistan and the other in Iraq - and the ongoing demands of the global war on terrorism.

Nor should the U.S. military be forced to remain in Iraq essentially as an army for one side of a civil war.

It still puts burden on some troops of ours who are there [in Afghanistan and Iraq] as advisors and facilitators.

I think things have gotten so bad inside Iraq, from the standpoint of the Iraqi people, my belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.

I think there's - the assumption seems to predominate on the other side that the reason there's been problems in the world is because of U.S. activity, U.S. conduct. We're the bad guys.We're the ones that lead people to become terrorists. We're the ones that generate the kind of criticism that has given al Qaeda an excuse to come attack the United States.

Most people think the Iraq war has increased the probability of an attack. However, it's difficult to put this aspect into financial terms.

These people are trying to shake the will of the Iraqi citizens, and they want us to leave...I think the world would be better off if we did leave.

I think we've, again, got to be extremely careful; otherwise we'll misunderstand what's going on in Iraq and in Syria today. Of course, you can't say that those of us who removed Saddam in 2003 bear no responsibility for the situation in 2015.

The question becomes what kind of coalition can we build that will make a transition and empower the people of Iraq? The American soldiers' presence there is an act of provocation. There's a big red ball on the back of every American soldier in that country, so our being there contributes to the crisis, it does not resolve the crisis.

I think it's very hard to fight the war on terrorism if we're in retreat.

The general election's taking place today in Iraq, so I guess that means we're one step closer to being there for another 10 years.

I am deeply skeptical of re-entering into Iraq's civil war.

John Walker Lindh, a twenty-year-old American studying in Pakistan, was captured in Northern Afghanistan fighting for the Taliban. Experts call it the worst semester abroad program ever.

The president and others say that if we leave, it will just be chaos in Iraq. Well, right now when you come to Iraq, you can't even drive from the airport to the Green Zone.

If the military contractors are out of Afghanistan, Karzai is out 15 minutes later.

Savage, despicable evil. That's what we were fighting in Iraq.

But the U.S. has to be careful. If our strategy depends on Sunnis doing the fighting to clear Mosul and Ramadi - and, as near as I can tell, that is the strategy - then you have to be careful that Sunnis don't perceive the U.S. to be operating arm in arm with Iran or with Iranian-backed Shiite militias that Abadi - Prime Minister Abadi is using in Iraq, so that, in effect, we're fronting for Iran.

We find ourselves in what I consider to be the most challenging, difficult, threatening time since World War II because of this War on Terror.

I'm also interviewing a guy who's just written a book about his experience living in Iraq, faced with the type of violence as he said, an unimaginable scale. And I think that the combination of that is very hard to shake.

I don’t think that [the war in Iraq] damaged our reputation around the world.