Political Quotes

“When we went into Iraq, 77 Members of this body believed the intelligence, that there was a deadly force, a radical tyrant there who needed to be removed. One may argue about the intelligence. The intelligence was not as good as it should have been, and that is why we on the Intelligence Committee have been looking into the evidence. But there is no question, what David Kay said afterward when he did the work of the Iraqi Survey Group, Iraq was a far more dangerous place than we even imagined it. We heard from soldiers. I talked with soldiers who have been there. They know what we are doing. They know the atrocities that went on. They know Iraq was a place of weapons of mass destruction, that biological and chemical weapons had been manufactured before, with wide-open opportunities for terrorists in Iraq to get those weapons and to use them. This was a clear-cut danger, not only to the people of Iraq who were suffering every day--literally hundreds of thousands murdered, neighbors murdered--but also a harbor for terrorists in that country and around the world. What we did in Iraq was dismember the Saddam Hussein regime and wipe out the terrorist holding pattern of government, wipe out the protective elements Afghanistan's Taliban government and Iraq's Saddam Hussein have given the terrorists.”